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Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 08:40 AM |
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 So I thought I'd take a moment and explain a project I'm working on
outside of the academic setting. In our Interface Major Studio,
we were tasked with making 50 boxes from a set pattern. We didn't
have to physically construct all of them, but the pattern I was
assigned turned out to be really simple. My idea for creating the
whole batch was to list out the attributes that people responded to:
color, opacity, and size. Then I worked out a scheme to get that
info encoded in an 8-bit number, 0 through 255. So the first bit
is red/not-red, the second blue/not-blue, etc. I was able to come
up with a pretty impressive range of boxes.
In the first round, I generated 16 of the little bastards and then went
around home and school, asking people to pick eight they liked. I
tallied all the responses, picked the 8 most selected, and "bred" a new
generation by feeding in their "genomes" (remember, numbers in the 0
through 255 range) into a python script. The script then mates
each one with another random winner and produces 8 more boxes.
Then I take the 8 winners and their 8 children (16 total) and do
another survey. So on and so forth.
I've just run the script to make a fourth generation. So far,
"clear" boxes are extinct, they definitely tend to be smaller, and
green is a small percentage of the pool, though it might be
growing. Not sure what the final result will be, but it's been an
interesting experiment.
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Mike |
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Mon Aug 7, 2006 at 07:16 AM |
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I'm keeping pretty busy in art school. Can ya tell? At any
rate, this is my personal
site, my class's blog, and my
sketchbook
that I keep up.
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Ravi |
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Mike |
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Mon Jul 24, 2006 at 07:52 AM |
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First day at art school starts in just over an hour. Rock!
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Mike |
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Wed May 24, 2006 at 06:05 PM |
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If they did, they would do it badly--but badly in that particularly Microsoft way in which they seem to do everything badly. The way that makes you roll your eyes and think, "Jesus God damn! They have a permanent pole up their ass! Just let it go, you wankers!"
Oh, I do so love viral video, and this one is a real gem.
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Mike |
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Fri Apr 7, 2006 at 11:35 AM |
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There are many reasons I'm stoked to go to Parsons, and their graffiti class is one of them. A school that teaches you to be maladjusted (rather than just doing it by accident) is alright by me. If I had a tagger handle, it would be bit bucket.
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