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This flying bug was crawling around my kitchen floor today.

I made another chapbook of algorithmic drawings. This one is based on the idea of connecting midpoints of line segments, with different starting line segments and different conditions on angles and segment lengths. Send me your mailing address and I'll mail a copy to you!

A yellowjacket in a friend's backyard.

I sewed a button back on for the first time in many years.

I've been making audio versions of the logistic map. The idea I'm using is to create a sound such that its spectrogram looks like the bifurcation diagram of the logistic map. So far I've made two versions.

First version

Second version

The second version is lower in pitch, has panning according to pitch (lower pitch more left, higher pitch more right), gets louder when there is "more" chaos, and more quickly reaches the first bifurcation.

Not much of an addition, but I added some probabilities related to the game Can't Stop (which I only learned about recently) to the collection (see problem 73). I calculated these with some simple code to run through all 1296 possibilities, very straightforward. The game is very complicated; see, e.g., this paper by James Glenn and Christian Aloi. I'm not sure what problems related to the game I might add, but I wanted to get these probabilities added for my own curiosity and in case anyone else is interested.

Took some photos on my walk to campus today. Here's one.

Every year, the roses near our garbage cans next to our house bloom. The bush is intertwined with a ~20 foot-tall holly tree, and there are roses quite high in the air. This was a lower one that I could get close to.

My latest crush is Katherine Stinson, the badass aviation pioneer, first woman to fly over London, etc. I exploded this LOC photograph.

A spent this evening making this animation from this LOC image of a zoopraxiscope by one of my favorite people, Eadweard Muybridge.