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#Call for Applications: We're excited to organise another #Algorithms that Matter (#ALMAT) workshop in the special program of #impuls Academy 2019. Next February, we will work together with sound artist and composer Robin Minard and the selected participants on a site-specific and environment-aware sound installation for the #MuWa (Museum of Perception) in #Graz.

Details: http://www.impuls.cc/academy-2019/special-programs.html#c5169

We're finalising texts for the #Schwärmen+#Vernetzen catalog; because my text construction requires that each paragraph stays at exactly 108 words, I gave Google Translate a go - holy moly, that engine has become scarily good, you can almost copy + paste the output with only minor corrections. (We use proper translators for the other texts)

Getting there (still)... some margins are off, sigh

Not that it doesn't have any merit....

The bloody neural gas crossed the boundary, and Mr Dijkstra was quick to follow :-/

succeeeeeeding
proceeeeeding
receding
preceding

I'll get there soon…

Given the nature of my project, I should rather use ant colony optimisation… Anyway, too late, thing is running...

I adopted some else's Dijkstra implementation, and it's bloody slow 💤

That's the GNG output for unfolded six pages.

/*
ok, here's the idea:

- for each possible page-folding
config:
- create a GNG from the
possible space occupied by the
edges around the paragraphs
- turn it into a MST
- locate the possible starting and
stopping points
- find the path
- create a bezier along it
- make sure we don't overlap the
paragraphs, otherwise
rerun with stronger boundary
padding
- render the edge text to svg
- create a place-on-path version
of it
- render it to PDF
*/

I merely have to implement :-/

Bwa, enough with the negativity. ☕ 🌳 🐈 💮

This was this morning, trying to combine the most important two properties of #caturday : #pancakes and #cat - cat wasn't so keen on my pancakes tho

Ok, I think I understood the basic paths...

Cracking my brain over this question: How many alternative paths (none of which contains another) can you draw between two points on two different pages of a (bound) book? How many if you allow rotations but not mirroring?

Cleaned up my studio today - David's coming over and we'll do a bit of #AnemoneActiniaria rehearsing, yeah!

Very nice: Performance John Bowers - "Stookie John Comes To Belfast"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufpOb0KuGyo&list=UUJwKSRm1_PDrppZ9HcUa-dQ&index=16

The great thing of having an orange is that you can defer eating it, instead holding it in your hand from time to time, feeling its shape and taking a smell at it. 🔶

We put up a trailer from Ron Kuivila's piece 'Listening to the Air', a series of episodes using ultrasound, which he made during the #ALMAT Algorithms that Matter artistic-research residency: https://vimeo.com/260234567