tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post2166790731319506566..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: It Seems Androids Do, in Fact, Dream of Electric SheepSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-62823609192966904452015-06-21T15:26:07.413-04:002015-06-21T15:26:07.413-04:00Ah, yes, doing Mandelbrot sets on a 486; I remembe...Ah, yes, doing Mandelbrot sets on a 486; I remember those days! Or was it on a 386? I think I did that in full floating point when I first got my 80387. Then Fractint came around and you didn't have to let the computer sit for hours doing a plot. <br /><br />I think the main reason there's little communications between the artistic community and scientists/engineers is that they look down on us. They think we're such knuckle draggers, what could we possibly add to their exalted value? <br /><br />Broad brush generalizations, not all artists, yada, yada, yada. And I'm influenced here by an article I saw in the last week by some sort of liberal arts graduate wondering if engineers could even <i>think</i>. After all, if we can't think, how could we possibly give them anything of any value? <br /><br />And after all, wouldn't you rather look at something with deep meaning like a crucifix in urine or watch someone put sharp objects through their body in some form of "performance art"? What good is a bunch of abstract shapes? That's SO last century. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-41396285743791691652015-06-20T21:09:04.251-04:002015-06-20T21:09:04.251-04:00It's fascinating how stuff like this bleeds ou...It's fascinating how stuff like this bleeds out into the general consciousness after having been done for years or decades. It isn't difficult to understand how these are generated -- you train a large system of equations to respond to a given input, and then expose it to random noise. Unsurprisingly, the network gives back things that look like the input it was trained to respond to. I was doing this in 1988 with a 486 computer, it's not difficult.<br /><br />That said, I'm amazed there hasn't been more bleedthru from engineering to art. Perhaps there should be more communication between engineers/scientists/mathematicians and the artistic community, because there is a huge amount of things that can be done artistically with common engineering tools and programs. Perhaps engineers should make more of an attempt to publish their work. Perhaps artists should make more of attempt to train themselves in the scientific arts.<br /><br />Now go thou and study yourselves some fractal mathematics! ;-)Maletropenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-58111216200109132462015-06-20T11:51:03.991-04:002015-06-20T11:51:03.991-04:00Anon - it's the feakiest thing I've seen i...Anon - it's the feakiest thing <b>I've</b> seen in a looooong time, too. <br /><br />I can't emphasize enough to go to that "eye candy" photo gallery and look around. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-11991386349386898152015-06-20T01:51:46.725-04:002015-06-20T01:51:46.725-04:00Some of those are strangely beautiful, and others ...Some of those are strangely beautiful, and others look like.....well, I don't know what.drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-44538092618705520332015-06-19T23:49:37.117-04:002015-06-19T23:49:37.117-04:00This is absolutely the freakiest thing I've re...This is absolutely the freakiest thing I've read in a loooong time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com