PSR's blog

2006-09-15 psr 2

17:08:58 

ya I would like to have a bunch of nice carefully built metal knurlled-knob positioners like that, but I'm going to need to make a lot of them (2-24 of em) so cheap and easy is my goal -also with the posibility of downstream incoroporation of CNC stepper motor automation of movements.  

Laptop Macgyvering

Thanks for the email on the spam bots Mark. They're insidious. I turned off all anonymous posting. I will post more on general enzymind stuff later.

Web predictions

 TED Video which speculates on the next 5000 days of the web. Infers connections between web and brain strucutre interconnectivity.

Also a nice fluid dynamics video of experiments being done on the interntational space station in micro gravity.

Diffraction limit

Stumbled upon a video clip demonstrating 'structured illumunation' microscopy which gives a 2x increase in optical resolving power past the usual diffraction limited 200nm feature size dictated by 1/2 wavelength of the smallest visible light ~400nm. It uses compuational image processing of moire patterns created by illuminating the sample with 2 or more gratings at various offsets to each other.

Gallery glitches

Was having some techical difficulties with the enzymind gallery. Did some web server voodoo and all is fine now.

Sun god

Still fun to see an new image show up in the side bar. Pa caught my attention Mark its a good one. Seems to depict, for me, looking at the sun from underwater, while a bit drunk. Would make a good logo maybe for orange juice I particularly like the swastika origin an ancient archetypal symbol with records going to Egypt and sun god idolatry before that guy usurped it. 

Low-tech animation

Video of an interesting masking techique for creating animations.

Mycosaviors

Good news

I finally heard back from the CreativeIT program yesterday and the Enzymind proposal has been declined. Phew. That would have been a lot of work. Now I have to figure out something else to do (for income). For the time being it will be primarily music but I hope to segue into more writing. Maybe some short stories, armchair philosophy or even a novel. Writing the proposals, at the very least, was good writing practice.  I also learned a lot about the theory and mechanics of the creative process which will be useful for future endeavors. 

e^i*pi+1=0

Interesting mathtoid.

 

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