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Reading The Encyclopedia

I’ve heard stories of people reading encyclopedias or dictionaries straight through, cover to cover. In everyone’s favorite existential-downer novel, Nausea, the “Self Taught Man” tries to read a whole library alphabetically. The basic spirit here – trying to swallow whole text that was meant to be referenced as needed – I guess I can get [...]

Conway’s Game of Life implemented within Conway’s Game of Life

Cube Sketch

This is a preliminary version of an idea I had about a year and a half ago, which I wrote earlier this year and then forgot about. It’s an automated match cut between an orthogonal projection of a cube and two-dimensional polygons with simulated mass and solidity (thanks to box2d). You can see (occasionally kludgy) [...]