Archives for April 2008
John Horton Conway’s Game of Life
Published on 13 Apr 2008 at 10:15 pm.
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Filed under Complexity, Fun.
I have always been fascinated by cellular automata, specifically the brand governed by the rules devised by the mathematician John Horton Conway, which is known as the Game of Life.
What I find particularly fascinating is the fact that such simple rules give rise to such complex behaviors. The Game is played this way:
There exists a […]
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Flying Penguins???
Published on 9 Apr 2008 at 6:34 am.
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Filed under Birds, Fun, animation.
BBC released a video showing flying Penguins migrating to the tropics.
You gotta love computer-generated imagery!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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Naughty Nestor
Published on 7 Apr 2008 at 4:05 am.
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Filed under Fun, Lego.
Its fun to build with LEGOs, but Nestor has other plans…
http://naughtynestor.com
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Arthur C. Clarke’s Last Interview
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 11:24 pm.
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IEEE Spectrum radio has on audio podcast the last interview with Arthur C. Clarke.
Futurist and science fiction author, Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) created 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as envisioning using geosynchronous satellites for global communication. He is also a huge proponent of the Space Elevator, and says that we will start […]
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Making Things Talk
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 2:20 am.
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Filed under Coding, Entrepreneurship, Evolution, Exploration, Fun, Gadgets, Information, Intelligent Systems, Internet, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Technology.
Looking back, I am surprised at how electronics has quietly advanced to the point where we can buy small programmable computers on chips for a dollar or two. These are microcontrollers of course, and in my lab we are working on programming them to handle the tedious tasks in our robotics projects.
At makezine.com, I stumbled on this gem of […]
