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There are a number of languages / environments to help with the creation of generative music under the umbrella term 'live coding' - the community also tries to keep the performance aspects of music intact.

Lots of great starting points at: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding

- http://recodeproject.com/ (reinterpretations of early generative art)

I was part of the preorder and just finished my first project with it, an MFT style workbench (3x5). My prior woodworking experience was a single class in high school. I would likely not have attempted this project without access this tool.

The software works off of SVG files, which was appealing as this is a format I'm already accustomed to. They have made a plugin for exporting SVG from Fusion360 models. The workflow to go from idea to a finished prototype is pretty quick.

Price for me was competitive, I had been looking at laser cutters which start at 2x-3x the price of this. Obviously not a direct comparison in capabilities.

Overall, I'm quite happy with it

"Ways of Seeing" was also made into a short BBC television series.

A few years ago, Lorna Mills gathered a number of contemporary artists and remade the series as "Ways of Something", with each artist contributing a minute of material to accompany the audio by John Berger

https://vimeo.com/105731173

I've been keeping an eye on http://thi.ng a toolset in Clojure /ClojureScript that Karsten Schmidt is developing

Karsten previously developed http://toxiclibs.org/ for Processing

Character design done well? The visual design was done in a way to make these characters very distinctive & memorable, possibly the same applies to the auditory aspects?

Matt Groening: The secret of designing cartoon characters — and I’m giving away this secret now to all of you out there — is: you make a character that you can tell who it is in silhouette. I learned this from watching Mickey Mouse as a kid. You can tell Mickey Mouse from a mile away…those two big ears. Same thing with Popeye, same thing with Batman. And so, if you look at the Simpsons, they’re all identifiable in silhouette. Bart with the picket fence hair, Marge with the beehive, and Homer with the two little hairs, and all the rest. So…I think about hair quite a lot.

Source: http://austinkleon.com/2007/08/28/silhouettes-and-profiles/

"we've done this experiment on two subjects"

The side by side articles reminds me of TiddlyWiki - a self-contained personal wiki.

It's a feature I would like to see more use of, as the context of a subject is often spread across multiple pages.

Yesterday the GMail App for iOS glitched on me as well. At one point the number of unread emails went to over 2k (in reality about 200), and then notifications for the app got enabled (usually disabled). Nothing major, just minor annoyances.

I didn't think much about it until today's events. Coincidence?

This principle is being used to generate power in Souther Spain. The system is described as a Concentrated Solar Thermal Power plus Molten Salt Storage (CSP+)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemasolar

I've been starting the day with a tall glass of water mixed with 2-3 teaspoons of Chia Seed. I won't attribute super powers to it, but it has started me off with a bit more energy than coffee.