A preliminary video visualizing a recent simulation I am working on for a project page. Originally posted over at vimeo, but nice as that site is, it currently does not support free formats (ogv, or webm for that matter) that can be played in Firefox on Linux without flash. Thus, I’m providing a version here [...]
If you are looking for a script to help you construct individual simulation setup files from a Netlogo BehaviorSpace experiment I ended up writing one. It’s available for download over at github. Half a year ago or so a student doing an internship at a research group I am working with at the moment wrote [...]
Wondering what to do with your Sunday? I know just the very thing: complexity! Nature Physics has an insights issue on the subject (vol. 8 no. 1), and I have heard that the articles are free of charge until February 1, 2012 (the Nature journals are unfortunately otherwise quite fond of paywalls). There’s quite a [...]
Section 3.B; Equations 15 – 19 A few weeks ago I received an email asking about the article Computer generated holograms from three-dimensional meshes using an analytic light transport model by myself and three colleagues published in Applied Optics back in 2008. After taking a second look at the section in question ( 3.B) I [...]
The following essay was written October-November 2010 and presented to a creative writing group in Vancouver, B.C. I have since then edited the piece to its current form. For printing reasons it is in PDF format: Print_this_document.pdf .L
Publishing, on this side of the digital divide, has become not only simple but automatic. Messages are copied from storage to storage. Everything is a printing press, and we are all writers – producers of texts. But then, what does it mean to be read? Write something and put it on-line. Within hours it has [...]
So, here is one of those oops-I-haven’t-updated-the-webpage-the-last-few-months kind of rants. Usually try to avoid them – else they would be the majority of texts I would write. Anyway, a few months between posts are healthy, and probably more of a rule than an exception on these pages. As the year is new (2011) I thought [...]
I borrowed Shop Class as Soulcraft from the local library after seeing it displayed at book shops around town. At first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to read it. The wink, or rather play at Robert Pirsig classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, seemed a bit too obvious: the under-title is ‘An [...]
I was browsing the bookshop in Heathrow, Terminal 3 (almost the only thing worth doing on Heathrow – what you might rightly think is the most horrific airport in the world until you have been to O’Hare) when that feeling started creeping over me – it would be nice to read something by Bill Bryson [...]
What is it in the way Steven Brust writes that make it such a thrill for me to read his books? I have tried to figure this out. My best theory to date (as I have said before) is that it is how he builds the tales of that Dragaeran world of his. The feeling [...]
