Last Year's Vintage
Here are a few thoughts, ideas, and random notes that I found today that I had jotted down while travelling briefly through Europe in September last year. I’m pretty sure I know what I was on about for a few of them; others are pretty opaque to me today.
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Marriage List Database - this was an idea for a website company. The company would provide an online list of wedding presents that would then be available across department store chains, internationally, taking the traditional list-held-at-a-local-department-store-branch and scaling it up for Today’s Modern Citizen.
- (this one’s pretty opaque) Simulated Erosion
- particle system <– fluid dynamics
- abrasiveness proportional to dust content
- water level? viscosity (property of particle system?)
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What kind of engines make the TGV go?
- (so is this one) Waves are a self-organising network
- scale free? decentralised?
- investigate the cellular-automaton screensaver that implements those spiral “demons”
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The economies of the world are grounded in time - the advent of mechanical efficiency (computers, AI etc) is a deflationary pressure
- (10 Sep. 2003) Trip to the Eiffel Tower
- The CBD looks like an exclusive clique of teenagers, standing by themselves looking insular on the other side of the city
- You can see Notre Dame from the top of the Tower
- You can see the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysées
- You can see something that looks like a Nuclear Power Plant
- There’s a large park in view
- (12 Sep. 2003) TGV to Avignon: We Go Fast