Jan 28, 2012
UCLA Library. A spherical image of the night sky: generated by projecting the night sky onto a spherical picture plane, with the view point at the center of the earth.
Jan 20, 2012
Sebastian Schmieg’s record of successive “visually similar image” searches through Google, starting with a flat black screen, and selecting the top hit at each iteration. As Jessica Rett points out, the video implies that Google is working with a non-symmetrical definition of visual similarity.
Jan 17, 2012
Multi-modal ambiguity! (Cartoon by Michael Maslin.)
Jan 16, 2012
sun & moon
Dec 12, 2011
The 2011 Egyptian election ballot followed the common practice of including both names and graphical symbols for each candidate. The symbols embody a neat division of denotation (the designated candidate) and connotation (the ideas associated with the chosen graphic). (Detail of a photo by Tara Todras-Whitehill, AP.)
Dec 4, 2011
A methuselah pattern from Conway’s Game of Life.
Nov 23, 2011
Just as Google search has been compared to our native ability to sort and remember information, might Pandora model our preference structure? (h/t Will Starr)
Nov 20, 2011
Froggy’s, Topanga, CA. A natural extension of the meaning of “I”.
Nov 17, 2011
Every light is a shade, compared to the higher lights, till you come to the sun; and every shade is a light, compared to the deeper shades, till you come to the night.
— John Ruskin (1879)
Nov 4, 2011
Candles as numerals in a base-1 counting system. (Photo by Giulia Stefani.)
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