Neat little manipulation of the Mandelbrot Set that is just plain dope: affectionately called the Buddhabrot Set.
The Buddhabrot Set is a re-visualization of the familiar Mandelbrot Set using a technique invented by Melinda Green. Instead of selecting points on the real-complex plane, initial points are selected at random from the image region. The point is iterated through the function, z = zˆ2 + c, where z has components in both the real and imaginary planes.
Just awesome.
Neat stuff, this address-o-sync … from the sound of it. Like the idea. Now we just need Rendezvous to catch on across more systems. And get this app running as a plug-in across a couple of different address book style apps.
Interesting little piece on ‘the ID myth’ from Futurismic.com which is next in line to join the blogroll…
Doctorow does it again: Eastern Standard Tribe. Download your free copy now. Then buy. B/c this man is brilliant and needs to be read.
Here’s a thing I’ve noticed about the present: more people are reading more
words off of more screens than ever before. Here’s another thing I’ve noticed about the present: fewer people are reading fewer words off of fewer pages than ever before. That doesn’t mean that the book is dying–no more than the advent of the printing press and the de-emphasis of Bible-copying monks meant that the book was dying–but it does mean that the book is changing. I think that literature is alive and well: we’re reading our brains out! I just think that the complex social practice of “book”–of which a bunch of paper pages between two covers is the mere expression–is transforming and will transform further.
