New work:
The Party at the Center of the Universe is an attempt at using data
generated by the public to generate a spatial construct on the
internet. This spatial construct takes into consideration the user's
position in space, orientation in space and identity. Each of these
factors will affect the way a person is represented in the
constructed space. A user's position is determined by reading the
strength of their wireless network connection. A user's orientation
is determined by reading the values of the accelerometer (Sudden
Motion Sensor) built in to their laptop. A user's identity is
determined by reading the username of the user currently logged on to
the laptop. The readings are made by a downloadable Dashboard widget
and does not depend on the user's concious interaction. It runs in
the background, transmitting the necessary information to the party
at 5 second intervals. It does not interfere with normal use of the
computer and the user is free to shutdown the widget at any time if
they wish (but it's more fun to know that even though you're in the
middle of an important board meeting or giving a presentation to
people who hold your destiny in the palms of their wallets... er...
hands, you're also the life of The Party at the Center of the Universe).
Hubbles law describes how every point in space sees itself as the
center of the Universe. Due to an effect similar to the Doppler
effect experienced when an ambulance speeds past, the Universe
appears to be expanding away from every point in space, in all
directions. So a space that has the potential to be a single locative
indicator of every point in space, must be the embodiment of the
Center of the Universe... and we're throwing a party! BYOB, good
company and music is provided.
Due to the hardware requirements, the currently available client
program will only run on recent models of Apple PowerBooks and
iBooks. There are some laptops from other manufacturers with built in
accelerometers, such as some of the IBM Thinkpads, but as I don't
have one, I can't create the client. Anyone who does have one, is
free to download the source material and make one. However, anyone
can observe the infinitely expanding, curved spacetime of the Center
of the Universe.
-- Pall Thayer palli@pallit.lhi.is http://www.this.is/pallit
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Pall Thayer wrote:
The Party at the Center of the Universe is an attempt at using data generated by the public to generate a spatial construct on the internet.
Is that a reference to "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" ?
If so, why?
Hubbles law describes how every point in space sees itself as the center of the Universe.
I thought that it was the Special Relativity Theory (Einstein 1905)...
What Hubble did is that he found the universe to be expanding by looking
at the black stripe patterns appearing in the rainbows produced by prisms.
The light of far-away stars make a stripes pattern which is much the same
as those of nearby stars except that it is shifted in the direction of the
color red in the rainbow.
All along, Einstein had assumed that the universe isn't expanding, and while cooking up a sequel to the relativity theory, he found something he dubbed the "cosmological constant" which turned out to be an artifact of the assumption that the universe isn't expanding...!
Due to an effect similar to the Doppler effect experienced when an ambulance speeds past, the Universe appears to be expanding away from every point in space, in all directions.
It _is_ the Doppler effect, which applies to all waves whatsoever, as long as there's an emitter and a receiver which are moving away from each other.
Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada
On 30.11.2005, at 02:34, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Pall Thayer wrote:
The Party at the Center of the Universe is an attempt at using
data generated by the public to generate a spatial construct on the internet.Is that a reference to "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" ?
If so, why?
Not a reference to, but somehow derived from. It's also derived from
Medeski, Martin and Wood's "End of the world party." No reason, just
makes for a spiffy title.
Hubbles law describes how every point in space sees itself as the
center of the Universe.I thought that it was the Special Relativity Theory (Einstein 1905)...
What Hubble did is that he found the universe to be expanding by
looking at the black stripe patterns appearing in the rainbows produced by
prisms. The light of far-away stars make a stripes pattern which is much
the same as those of nearby stars except that it is shifted in the direction
of the color red in the rainbow.All along, Einstein had assumed that the universe isn't expanding, and while cooking up a sequel to the relativity theory, he found
something he dubbed the "cosmological constant" which turned out to be an
artifact of the assumption that the universe isn't expanding...!
Hubble's law is the basis for _observing_ the expansion of the
universe. Einstein introduced his cosmological constant to stop his
universe from expanding because he didn't want to believe that it
was. He ended up dropping it, referring to it as his biggest mistake
and personally thanking Hubble.
Due to an effect similar to the Doppler effect experienced when an ambulance speeds past, the Universe appears to be expanding away from every point in space, in all directions.
It _is_ the Doppler effect, which applies to all waves whatsoever,
as long as there's an emitter and a receiver which are moving away from each other.
Yes, but many people don't realize that the Doppler effect applies to
all waves, that's why I say "... similar to the Doppler effect
experienced when..." I'm not saying, "... similar to the Doppler
effect." because, as you say, it IS the Doppler effect.
Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada
-- Pall Thayer palli@pallit.lhi.is http://www.this.is/pallit
Hi all,
im building my own web page and im thinking that maybe will be good if i build it with Pd.
I know that lot of Pd pages are build with this software, can anybody tell me how can i do it? (ill be happy if somebody say to me the name of the objects i will need)
Thanks to all,
Josué.
I think you probably have PD (Pure-Data) confused with something else.
Pure-data is a multimedia visual programming environment...
It does not have anything to do with making web-pages.
b.
Hi all,
im building my own web page and im thinking that maybe will be good if i build it with Pd.
I know that lot of Pd pages are build with this software, can anybody tell me how can i do it? (ill be happy if somebody say to me the name of the objects i will need)
Thanks to all,
Josué.
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I think you probably have PD (Pure-Data) confused with something else.
Pure-data is a multimedia visual programming environment...
It does not have anything to do with making web-pages.
b.
Yes, i know that, and im using it for that, but i think this page https://puredata.info/ was build with Pd. And the same for another pages in the Pd-webring. Sorry if im wrong.
Hallo!
Yes, i know that, and im using it for that, but i think this page https://puredata.info/ was build with Pd. And the same for another pages in the Pd-webring.
no, this page was build with zope/plone - see the links at the bottom of it.
LG Georg
no, this page was build with zope/plone - see the links at the bottom of it.
LG Georg
Ok, sorry, i was wrong. Anyway, its totally imposible to do that?(even if ive got to edit a little with Dreamweaver) Maybe is better to do all with that(DW), isnt it? thank you all.
Ok, sorry, i was wrong. Anyway, its totally imposible to do that?
of course not...your best bet would probably be launching a Rails-webrick instance via gridflow's ruby support..
(even if ive got to edit a little with Dreamweaver) Maybe is better to do all with that(DW), isnt it? thank you all.
i was experimenting on rendering pd patches with php-gd, just for fun http://osku.de/pd/foo/screenshot-pd-php-render.png but the fun mutated to work, when it came to in/outlet amounts and positions... so i dropped ;)
as firefox1.5 now has (minimal) svg enabled, im experimenting with it. but nothing pd related, atleast not yet ;) (local.google.com is the best svg app that i found to work with ff1.5)
hmm, pd as cms... pd-patch to html "parser" in php, hmm...
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 19:58 +0000, ix wrote:
Ok, sorry, i was wrong. Anyway, its totally imposible to do that?
of course not...your best bet would probably be launching a Rails-webrick instance via gridflow's ruby support..
(even if ive got to edit a little with Dreamweaver) Maybe is better to do all with that(DW), isnt it? thank you all.
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On 3 Dec 2005, at 19:58, ix wrote:
Ok, sorry, i was wrong. Anyway, its totally imposible to do that?
of course not...your best bet would probably be launching a Rails-webrick instance via gridflow's ruby support..
Oh that's just sick, and mean, and...hmmm; interesting. ;-)
d
-- David Plans Casal Researcher, UEA Studios d.casal at uea dot ac dot uk http://www.davidcasal.com
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, David Plans Casal wrote:
On 3 Dec 2005, at 19:58, ix wrote:
Ok, sorry, i was wrong. Anyway, its totally imposible to do that?
of course not...your best bet would probably be launching a Rails-webrick instance via gridflow's ruby support..
Oh that's just sick, and mean, and...hmmm; interesting. ;-)
I don't know how Rails works, but if it uses threads, then you can't use it with GridFlow. If someone knows how to support Ruby threads then it can be done. I think that what may work is if you only use GridFlow in the main thread. That's what I recall from trying to make an IRC client in PureData using RICE (Ruby IRC client library) :
http://gridflow.ca/gallery/purebot.gif
Of course, when that's done, it has to be redone for Ruby 2.0.
_ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju | Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada
some laptops from other manufacturers with built in accelerometers, such
as some of the IBM Thinkpads, but as I don't have one, I can't create
the client. Anyone who does have one, is free to download the source
I have one, but I'm not a programmer. If you tell me what to do (and I can
do it), I can help out.
joao
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