watch out for charley’s girl

Traces of my past (whoa) …

From my Journal, circa summer 2007. Slide Puppy was a tangible instrument to be constructed out of resistive wire.

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[generated using 8 bits of randomness, using a phase of 0.0137; any non-zero phase should give similar results]
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The perceived frequency is frequency * step_size. These images were generated with step_size=1 (i.e. each pixel is one step apart). Of course, if your step size is A, divide the [...]

There was a time when I lived in a nap room in Palo Alto. The Sounds were my heralds; Lawrence Lessig was my poet. I was an undercover defector. One night, in a laundry room off El Camino, I overheard an old couple talk about life. I was there, for every moment, writing this fractal. [...]

I recently dug up some geometric things from my digital past:

Can you make a maze that will fool the maze master? Try it!
Did you ever want to know about minimal surfaces?

Have you ever wanted to explore an alternate landscape? Hydrogen might bring you there. It works by generating images from a world kernel, described in a file like this:
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{Add/1.0 Subtract/1.0 Multiply/1.2 Divide/1.2}{Cos/1.0 Sin/1.0}{TwoSin/1.2 FourSin/1.2 HydroBoost/1.0 Juxtapose/1.0}{Power/1.0 Root/1.0}{3.141:pi/1.0 1.81:e/1.0 15.7:nu/1.0}
{0.0 1.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.0}{0.1 0.5 1.0 1.0 0.2 0.1}{0.1 0.5 1.0 1.0 0.2 0.1}{0.5 [...]

This entry from my journal describes the monosic:
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A monosic is a type of physics that follows one rule. What if that rule was: momentum is conserved? What type of world would evolve?
This question is interesting because any world evolved under a monosic is consistent. If the rule is all you have to evaluate a world, [...]

Three words: urgent, floating, and bend. How do they behave?

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launch

launch . launch truly floating version