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I finally managed to translate my article for the conference proceedings of the NMI2006 conference from german into english. There are a few additions, which are not included in the german version.

The article is a description of our installation seidesein. It gives an account on our motivations for creating seidesein but it explains a bit also our motivation for other daytar works.

The article is for download >>here or directly via the seidesein page.

I am very grateful for any feedback on this article.

Today I am digging out a historical milestone in mathematical visualization.

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A conference in Luzern/Lucerne in 2007 about Consciousness and Quantumcomputers.
The announcement mentions Anton Zeillinger (wikipedia link) and Roger Penrose (wikipedia link) and the Dalai Lama in their intro, but unfortunately as it seems neither of them is among the speakers..:)..but whatsoever — there are still enough interesting speakers and it is an important topic to discuss.

the gallery has a torus logo!

Sometimes its better to be unvisible.
This is not so impossible.
I.e. the theory is developped at various places, e.g. here at St. Andrews by physicist Ulf Leonhardt who has an easy to read introduction to the field.

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The interested randform reader knows that we are always on the look for fancy
input devices.

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Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is computer software designed to translate images of handwritten or typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner or a digitizer) into machine processable text. OCR is e.g. commercially used in PDA’s However “handwritten” characters do not need to be constrained to letters or simple symbols but could also be more complex shapes, if necessary also in 3D. The recognition of such shapes can also be interpreted as gesture recognition.

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Unsolved problems in physics: What causes the apparent residual Sunward acceleration of the Pioneer spacecraft?

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After the diet coke and mentos wave, there seems to be – may be – a new physics hype on youtube – namely the cornstarch and resonance monsters. This video is particular charming.

Remarks:
-I am not sure – but the origin of this goes probably back to this scientific video of the Center for nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Austin.

-the physics is connected to an earlier post called resonance rice and it is actually also a bit related to this earlier reported experiment of a macroscopic double slit experiment.

water again: water simulations are cool. However the big question is: WHAT IS A SIMULATION? I.e. at what point do we accept a thing to look physically realistic? Do we want it to look realistic?

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I am thread safe – i.e. I am still keeping water as a subject after the last post. However I have to say that I find this rollerskating robot from Hirose robotics lab actually cooler as the above swimming snake robot. yes – its almost as cool as the famous boston mule.

strongly recommended: Hirose lab movie gallery
this is not really a follow up post to this old dainty walker randform post :).