Author Archives: Jason

Pittsburgh as a turkey head

By Jason | Published: 23 May 2010

I couldn’t help but see the outline of a turkey’s face when looking at a map of Pittsburgh’s myriad neighborhoods. Original map (public domain)

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I was walking back from class yesterday when I noticed everything was kinda hazy and there was a strong odor of something burning. I figured either someone was celebrating 4/20 a day late or there was a fire on the west side of town. By the time I got back to my apartment my clothes […]

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Evolvotron

By Jason | Published: 19 Apr 2010

I played around with an interesting program called Evolvotron recently. The author of the program, Tim Day, summarizes it as… an interactive “generative art” application for Linux to evolve images/textures/patterns/animations through an iterative process of random mutation and user-selection driven evolution. (This process is also often referred to as “evolutionary art” or “genetic art”.) If […]