Enzymind Labs

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.

I've been reading a lot of material developed by Alan Kay (e.g. his writings), and others who have been influenced by Kay's vision of what operating systems and software should look like to create a revolution in the way people, in particular children, learn.

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. 

This ScienceDaily item touches on the relationship between mood/affect and creativity: 

Video Games Can Make Us Creative If Spark Is Right

This guy is documenting the process of building a giant robot. The thing I like about it is that he discusses that his documentary is not specifically about building a robot, but rather it demonstrates how one might build anything that has never been built before, which is a component of the ethic of enzymind. The link above is to the 11th segment where he touches upon this philosophy, but the entire series starting at segment 1 can be found in the you tube side bar. 

A few examples and viewpoints on emergence of patterns

 

Had a difficult week and a half, felt sick most of the time and it was hard to concentrate. One productive project got done, a tesselation with a "universal tile pair" -- any square tiling with the related pair results in smooth contours. I also reworked a brain animation as part of a demo for a possible public display commision.

Various curiosities:

2008-01-15  14:44:27

Article: Creativity – The Last Human Stronghold?

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Good flash based 3d visualization gizmo with DOF illusion.

Visuwords online dictionary uses a graphical network representation similar in many ways -conceptually and also interms of using flash/flex tools- to what I would like to have for organizing and visualizing information on enzymind. It zooms/scales nicely too.

2008-01-01 19:51:33

Sony t200 automatic smile detection camera.

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2008-01-01 19:22:22

A nice description of intervals in terms of ratios on the guitar.

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A somewhat sneaky video which compares the cosmological standard model to intelligent design/creationism.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=63vzg3fs9y