Category: Amusements
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Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa
Trial and error. What artist has not at some point resorted to “I’ll just try this and see if it looks better.“? You might say that, in light of Darwin’s model of natural selection, nature itself does the same: make a genetic mutation or two, or a billion, and see what works. Swedish programmer Roger…
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FM 100 Hue Test
The FM 100 Hue Test is a seemingly simple test of your ability to discern close hue relationships, a sort of “color IQ test”. The interactive is provided by x-rite, a company that makes Munsell-based color measurement products. It consists of four bands of small squares of varying colors. Each band represents a scale of…
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Coraline Mystery Box
Back in 2003, I stumbled across a promotion for the book The Da Vinci Code, little known at the time, in the form of a series of web-based clues, originating on author Dan Brown’s web site and leading through a series of automated emails and other web sites to an eventual puzzle solution that garnered…
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Analog Photoshop Interface
As a long time Photoshop user, I just love this version of the Photoshop interface as represented by real-world objects. It’s a poster for software-asli.com, the creative credits are: creative director : Hendra Lesmono, art director : Andreas Junus & Irawandhani Kamarga, copywriter : Darrick Subrata and photgrapher : Anton Ismael. The mock up is…
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ZuneJourney.net
I have never been a fan of Microsoft, their approach to software, their “squash the little guy” business practices or their design and interface choices. Just a personal point of view, of course, but I think their years of market dominance in computer operating systems and their huge corporate bureaucracy have made them complacent and…
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Forget the film, watch the titles (update)
If you’re a fan of pop songs, particularly from the 1960’s when the three minute pop song was perhaps at its peak as a musical form, you’re familiar with the concept of a “golden intro”, that delicious first 20 or 30 seconds of instrumental music before the vocals start, that was often a thing of…