Category Archives: method

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 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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Dual Parented Child

By thomas | Published: February 8, 2010
I’d like to share here the origins of the header image of this weblog, and give others a chance to play with a small toy I have enjoyed both making and interacting with. The application was created in the waning days of September 2009, in the midst of a difficult project at work, and has [...]
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95 percent

By thomas | Published: February 4, 2010
Over the last month or two, the number of unpublished posts on this weblog have burgeoned into a small crowd of pieces of writing left near 90 or 95% done. I end up sharing nothing. The reasons for this are manyfold– often times each idea leads back to another and another [...]
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On Snow Shoveling

By thomas | Published: December 24, 2009
So, beware. You will encounter spreadsheets that make no sense. You will also encounter spreadsheets that make sense, but require a large portion of your attention to understand. Be careful to not confuse the two. You will be asked to perform hacks and tricks. Your duty is that of [...]
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notes on methodology

By thomas | Published: November 15, 2009
Before beginning any serious efforts as to the questions of Who was Socrates?, and, further, What is Philosophy?, I think it may be necessary to share a few thoughts I’ve recently had about how we share information online. I think it prudent to consider the aims of writing for online consumption, and also the [...]
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