Music and Language
October 25th, 2006
Various STFT spectrograms for the mathematical analysis of sound
Via cosmicvariance (Clifford) I found this very nice podcast by radiolab.org at New Yorks public radio WNYC.
Invisibility cloaks
October 25th, 2006
The invisible woman by marvel comics, Art by Steve McNiven Image from wikipedia
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.
to Wii or not to Wii – In2Games announces new controller
October 24th, 2006The interested randform reader knows that we are always on the look for fancy
input devices.
Ringvorlesung
October 24th, 2006
organic computing?There is a joint lecture series on “selforganization of complex systems”. It uses tele-teaching systems of the participating universities:
Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Technical Univerity Ilmenau, Bauhaus University Weimar, and Univerity Leipzig.
topics range from the mathematics of selforganization ant organic computing to self organization in social contexts and and evolutionary algorithms.
Sounds interesting.
fungus
October 23rd, 2006
A dress with living fungi:fibre reaction (2004) (image similar) by Donna Franklin. It might help against something but I wonder how the dress looks today…
See we make money not art for other mould art.
Die tödliche Doris
October 22nd, 2006
Die tödliche Doris was a 7 year long art project in the end 80ties. It consisted of a group of (usually 3) people( Wolfgang Müller, Nikolaus Utermöhlen und Chris Dreier/Dagmar Dimitroff/Tabea Blumenschein and then Käthe Kruse ) who did Multimedia art performances. Their work was concerned with the question of identity – especially in pop groups. They created their typical style the “ingenious dilletantism” and performed on Punk/NDW/Industrial festivals such as “Berlin Atonal”.
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Flowers
October 22nd, 2006Just some flowers from today:
character recognition linked to physics engines
October 20th, 2006
A hidden Markov model as it usually appears in pattern recognition
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.
Contemporary Mathematical Photography and New Media
October 19th, 2006A bit late this announcement, however not too late… for all those who are in Harrisonburg Virginia/US right now:
The
NEW IMAGE GALLERY at James Madison University currently hosts an exhibition:
“Contemporary Mathematical Photography and New Media”
October 9th, 2006 Opening reception for Contemporary Mathematical Photography and New Media: Part 1, 5–7pm. Exhibit will last through November 8th.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Thursday, 12:00 noon – 5:00pm; Friday – Saturday, 12:00 noon – 4:00pm CLOSED Sundays
New Image Gallery is located at 131 Grace Street.
among others daytars surrealey is on display there.
mars on earth
October 18th, 2006
New Planet (1921), by Konstantin Yuon (image from Wikipedia).
I was yesterday linking to a project which is carrying out a study into possible future cultural utilisation of the International Space Station.