Selected Tweets #25: Sunspots, Fulgurites & Pathological Fractals
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Illustrations from Opus mago-cabalisticum et theologicum – Georg von Welling [1719]
Selected tweets from my Twitter stream @MrPrudence
Group of Sun Spots and Veiled Spots – E. L. Trouvelot [1873].
Chromatic Drawings – Ivan Wyschnegradsky.
Polyomino II – Jose Sanchez and students. Combinatorial patterns generated in Unity3D.
Illustrations from Opus mago-cabalisticum et theologicum – Georg von Welling [1719].
Hacker Slang and Hacker Culture – AI Koans, Hacker Folklore in The Jargon File, circa 2000.
A Cognitive Computation Fallacy? Cognition, Computations and Panpsychism – John Mark Bishop.
The Analog Art – Joost Rekveld traces the history of analogue computing leading to his current film work #59.
No Code: Null Programs – Nick Montfort [PDF]. The null program or lack of code as a functioning program.
Marginal, Local and Time-Bound – Sydney Lévy [PDF]. Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Babbage & the machinations of the mind.
Hadopelagic – Hideki Inaba. Fischingeresque time and motion study in candy coloured pop.
Illustration from Carpentry : Being A Comprehensive Guide Book for Carpentry and Joinery – Nicholson, Peter, [1848]
EKO ComputeRhythm – a drum machine that used punched paper cards from 1972.
Art of the Airport Tower – Carolyn Russo. The airport tower as monumental abstraction.
Illustrations from Elektricität und Licht – Otto Lehmann [1895].
Incomprehensible Brainfuck talks formal L-Sys.
Commodore 8580 chip. Hi-res [133MB]. Plus many more at http://www.visual6502.org/
Ilya Prigogine on The Arrow of Time – Is time a fluid reversible cosmic commodity? – Omni Mag, 1983.
“The arrow of time is an arrow of increasing correlations.” Natalie Wolchover on entanglement as entropy.
Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence – Jessica Riskin.
‘Others seek and achieve notoriety, Hinton has achieved almost total obscurity’ – Borges on Howard C Hinton and his Fourth Dimension.
Imaginary city landscapes by Georg Bohle.
Group of Sun Spots and Veiled Spots – E. L. Trouvelot [1873]
Theosophical images from Europe from the 1930’s at Lexicon magazine.
‘Some fractals were rejected by mathematicians and labelled pathological and monstrous.’ Infinite Space and Self-Similar Form – Laura Strudwick
Enlivening The Grid. On Channa Horwitz’s grid-system Sonakinatography.
Joe Banks, author of ‘Rorschach Audio’ on the visual construction of ‘reality’.
Chance and Order Group VII, Drawing 6 – Kenneth Martin. Lines between randomly defined points.
The strangely relaxing abstractions of Aeroese poetry – “Establish localiser two-seven-right”.
Geometric stimulation arrives from unlikely sources: 17C carpentry & joinery manuals.
Illustration from Man Visible & Invisible – Charles Leadbeater [1903].
Geodesic Model – William Donovan [1980] Made from ‘nit sticks’ used to check for head lice.
Théâtre Mobile – Pascal Häusermann.
No. 1 — July 12th, 2017 at 9:33 pm
My favorite is Sydney Lévy’s book machinations part.