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Infocom-related mishaps
dept. of side projects
Corduroy is a Python library for using CouchDB with Tornado.
book cover doodle
i have no idea why i made this…
scale error
coordinate transforms will always be a trial and error affair i'm afraid
the rules of the game
13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project. all told i ended up cataloging a dozen books from the early-to-mid 80s, looking for patterns in their construction and in the paths made by different readers through them.
these short, simple books had a surprisingly complicated structure with their interlocking pages & choices. as a kid the idea of writing one and keeping all those pages straight boggled my mind. what was lost on me at the time was that even a list of hundreds of page numbers can be comprehensible if it’s redrawn as a diagram. these days i feel like i approach everything that way.
so here is my look back at an obsession from my past, using graphical obsessions of the present to guide the way.
Bookmarks
funny, i'd always thought those lines were tuning curves for cells in v1
as much of a soft spot as i have for obj-c, i think this may be my new love
again, code imitating visual cortical processing to do the right thing
amazing to see how old these are and how young the city was at the time
no idea why i respond to this and shrug at both the other wireframe pieces they link to
a fairly broad survey of infographical approaches
some great old school trader quotes about the hubris of quants
funny that the most fussed-over patches always end up looking like Smalltalk 80
online book of astoundingly graphic japanese illustrations from a hundred years ago
Found
looping commercials to create some surprisingly beautiful sound textures