April 2008
8 posts
WatchGenerative Music - Cellular automata and blip blops on Vimeo - via Processing Blogs
Brainbows and Connectomes - Mapping the human... →
“A new field of study known as connectomics is described by Jeff Lichtman in this video. The aim is to create complete wiring diagrams for the brains of animals and eventually humans” - via The Streeb-Greebling Diaries
Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and... →
“A professor at MIT, Lorenz was the first to recognize what is now called chaotic behavior in the mathematical modeling of weather systems. In the early 1960s, Lorenz realized that small differences in a dynamic system such as the atmosphere—or a model of the atmosphere—could trigger vast and often unsuspected results.”
Biomimetics - National Geographic Magazine →
“Biomimetics brings in a whole different set of tools and ideas you wouldn’t otherwise have.” via Boing Boing.
10 Important Differences Between Brains and... →
“Although the brain-computer metaphor has served cognitive psychology well, research in cognitive neuroscience has revealed many important differences between brains and computers. Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence.” Also see commentary at Machines...
WolframTones : Cellular Automata music →
Some CA music wrapped up in a bit of WolframEgoTM. “WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram’s computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story—and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition.” (via reddit.com)