Monthly Archives: February 2010

What is randomness? There are many types of randomness, but for my money they can be divided into two broad categories, which I’ll call ‘stochastic’ and ‘orthogonally causal’. By stochastic randomness, I mean to indicate the traditional connotation of randomness … Continue reading →

I recently finished reading You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier. The book is the latest in a series of prominent polemics decrying the effect of the internet on everything from pop culture to basic human cognition. Because I … Continue reading →

Ever since seeing Man On Wire last year, a brilliant documentary about Philippe Petit, a french high wire artists who tightrope walked between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974, I’ve been fascinated with the idea of balance. … Continue reading →

This blog’s date of birth is somewhat lost to the mysteries of time and blog engine migration, but the most likely candidates are December 13th, 2004 and February 9th, 2005. The former is supported by the existence of this post … Continue reading →

For Methods of Motion last week, our assignment was to create a storyboard for a character animation. Using all that we’ve been learning about giving personality to characters through their motion (especially the 12 basic principles of animation) we were … Continue reading →

This is the current working draft of the “People” game my team is working on for Big Games. The Prisoner’s Dilemma seeks to see if a group of prisoners can stick together long enough to pull off a daring prison … Continue reading →