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The randomness of the digits of π

By admin | Published: March 14, 2011
“If you were to assign letters of the alphabet to combinations of digits, and were to do this for all human alphabets, syllabaries, and ideograms, then you could fit any written character in any language to a combination of digits in pi. According to this system, pi could be turned into literature. Then, if you [...]
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Prime Spiral

By admin | Published: February 21, 2010
In my commitment to look back at abandoned projects, I must share some work with prime numbers and spirals, which deserve a link, an instruction manual and an explanation. instructions This application relies mostly on key presses in order for interaction. You may change the state of it in one of three ways: -press the number keys [...]
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the path towards randomness [pt 3]

By admin | Published: February 20, 2010
And so no we go back to mr. perlin’s work, and I always seem to have come here, in my travels backwards: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/noise/ ( I would also add as a note, that any visits here are good backwards, or downhill climbs ) This is ImprovedNoise.java, which is, well, an improvement of his earlier version ( improvements [...]
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the path towards randomness [pt 2]

By admin | Published: February 13, 2010
I’ve been meaning to get a good 3d Perlin noise function ( a method used to create a ‘natural’ kind of randomness, very useful in graphical programming ) into the processing.js library for the past few months, and I must admit to being rather slow at doing so. The task, originally scheduled for [...]
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The paths toward randomness [pt 1]

By admin | Published: February 8, 2010
In the preface to the Vicennial edition of his work, On The Shoulders of Giants: a Shandean Postscript, Mr. Merton shares with us a graphical description of the paths of investigation described by Laurence Sterne in the fourth volume of his work– the paths of the first four volumes of The Life and Opinions of [...]
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