Something else the maps don’t show is that just off port-side is a frothing mass; a baitball of crackling and clicking, screaming and groaning plastic and metal and synthetic polymer. Everything fighting to be where their programming says they should be. It smells awful.
As I’ve been working through this I’ve kind of ended up with a “Collection of Curiosities”. I’ll try to shout them out as I go.
Augmented Reality isn’t just an academic or even safe exercise. It connects in a very primal and critical way to who we are as humans.
Swift is intended to be used in rapidly evolving crisis situations such as a tsunami or a civic disaster. Over the last year as the Swift app has been being developed there have been a number of events that fit the profile. The Mumbai terrorist incident is a good example. Each crisis has helped us improve the engine, hopefully soon it will be able to provide real value to help out in crisis situations. In this post we review how to build an instance of Swift.
And a visual editing tool that lets an ordinary user easily drag and drop objects together, to create and break relationships between objects, and to edit the attributes of objects. Something I can simplify or tailor the view of.
The backstory is that the OpenBSD folks wanted help to automate configuration of timezones for installs. What we did was take the geolocation of their IP and use it to look up a timezone code.
The work of Chuck close demonstrates an almost algorithmic perception of the visual image. One wonders if in fact he actually sees the world in this manner. There’s a quality to this work that creates a tension with human perception. We are seeing the overall sense of an image but the individual features of that image are in a way unrelated.
Author: anselm