Fract – “Indie Adventure Game”
FRACT – Indie Adventure Game from Richard Flanagan on Vimeo. “FRACT is an atmospheric adventure game set in an abstract forgotten world of analog sounds, samples and glitches. Myst + Rez with a heavy dose of Tron.” The game, designed…
Dynamics and technology
By the early 1990s, remarkable advancements in two commercial 3–D modeling software packages, Alias/Wavefront and Softimage, offered revolutionary possibilities for architectural design. Alias, the forerunner of todays Maya, was developed for the automobile industry to model complex car parts, and…
Mathematics as language
…little need to insist that mathematics is a language: who after all among those familiar with it would deny the proposition ^ Certainly not those users – accountants, engineers, economists, actuaries, statisticians, cliometricians, meteorologists, and the like – who have…
Ontologies
Is an artificial creature a form of life, or a compound of organs ? Should it also be subsumed under the notion of artificial intelligence ? When an “and” is placed between two terms (artificial/natural, natural/cultural, immanent/transcendent), where should the…
Topology in media studies
I don’t want to go that far into the math, but often keep finding references to topology in cultural studies and philosophy texts. The first time I looked up “topology”, I was very happy with the New Oxford American Dictionary’s…
3D open source animation and distribution
Tube, an open source 3D animation project, is one of the contenders for this year’s Creative Commons Catalyst Grants Program, a funding strategy aiming to “empower individuals and communities deeply rooted in the principles of openness and sharing”. Using Arkipelago, a…
Excerpt from: DeLanda Destratified, by Erik Davis
Chris Langton at Los Alamos later set out to classify all possibly cellular automata — which basically means abstract spaces with many dimensions — depending on how many rules they have. He discovered that there’s a range, a magic region…