Who is the Algorithm?
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Amy Dyer
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The Story of Stompy
Pass through Porter Square in Somerville; head south on Mass Ave; and turn right on Washington Street. Head uphill, along the brick sidewalk, and take another left. Now, look closely, and you might find a giant, six-legged robot. This is Stompy. Stompy is what remains of “Project Hexapod”, one of the most optimistic robotics projects [ ]
Drawing with Ants: Generative Art with Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms
Why I wanted to draw with ants I wanted to make a piece of art that explores the complexity of software engineering. When I imagine a huge codebase, I think of its emergent complexity and tangled, inter-connected parts. Its overall shape, if it can be said to have one, emerges from the actions of many [ ]
Software Still Lives
I created a series of still lives using computer hardware to explore the abstract nature of software development. Software is, in my mind, merely a thing. It s created by ordinary people, it has form, and an expressive nature of its own. Software can be convoluted, tangled, interdependent; or it can be orderly, rigid, or modular. However, [ ]