AI: “Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it.”
- Definition from Wikipedia
Having a robot or virtual agent (an example of a virtual agent could be characters in a video game) navigate a space or obstacle course can be a difficult task to plan out
When designing the visual aspect to a website or creating images in general the dilemma of choosing proportions inevitably comes up. By choosing proportions I mean the idea of designing a space to hold the informational content of a website or visual information of an image. Occasionally these decisions are made simpler when making the proportions of information container boxes (which I will refer to as a “div” from now on) just big enough to contain the information.
Modular programming can be defined as the technique of the creation or use of parts to a larger system that can be interchanged with other similar systems. In more simplified terms, making or using add-ons to a container program. This can be applied to all kinds of systems including WordPress, an open source blog tool and publishing platform for website creation
The senior BFA show at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago opened last Friday and is currently showing. For the show I presented a project I had made in the Bio Art class last semester. The piece was an Ultraviolet LED grid programmed to display Conway’s Game of Life. In addition GFP bacteria (bacteria that glow green under UV light) were placed in a custom Petri dish on top of the UV LED grid. The intended goal was for the bacteria to function as pixels displaying the programmed game.
How is it that computers can be so highly functional across countless deterministic tasks yet have difficulty performing functions a child could easily do? If a child is given a a collection of photographs which contain the same dog, they would have no problem pointing out this fact. A camera communicating with an interpreting program, however, is bounded by information represented by the pixels. Algorithms can be written to try to find large scale changes across a screen of pixels, such as a “blob” being inside of the image, but determining if there is a dog is nearly impossible.
Have you ever seen an amazing cake that looks pretty tasty, but after you taste it you were disappointed? Yeah, that happened to me a couple of times — not only with cakes but also with many other things like typography.