Archive for February, 2008

An extensible FARG implementation, Part II

February 28, 2008

[Microsoft Word seems to be messing up my fonts. Apologies.]

The question I explore in this post is how much and what can be shared between CRCC projects. I will try to stay as concrete as I can. In this post, I have managed to talk about a single “simple” aspect.

One of the most obviously sharable [...]

An extensible FARG implementation

February 28, 2008

I have been meaning to write this post for a while, now. Over the last few years, the idea and urgent discussion regarding a hypothetical library that would allow a new FARG project to be achieved in a few keystrokes has surfaced, repeatedly, and has not led anywhere thus far. The latest outcropping was last [...]

All the world in a song

February 28, 2008

From the excellent Strange Maps blog today: a musical score representing a map of the world.

The notion of “expectation”

February 28, 2008

A concept I was thinking of, back when first thinking through the Magnifi* engine, was that of “expectation.”  I’m still finding it useful in my current iteration, and I hope to keep exploring it.
The basic notion is this: In Copycat, where the goal of a run is fixed, the expectation is defined by the actual [...]

Meeting notes: Feb. 23, 2008

February 23, 2008

Today six or seven of us met at CRCC for a nice discussion. I won’t try to review it all here, but I’ll list a few items of note:

We talked about putting together a demo of lots of the FARG projects and having some sort of gathering (such as an “open house” later this year, [...]

New typography term

February 23, 2008

Keming: the result of improper kerning.
A bit brief for a proper blog post, but there you go.

Welcome to the FARG Blog

February 22, 2008

Dear friends, this is a quick note to kick off our new FARG Blog. We’re setting it up so that a bunch of us can author our own posts, so we can each write about whatever FARG-related topics we’d like. We’re still planning to use our internal mailing list for crazier discussions that don’t need [...]