DFS

I started parsing DFS as “discrete finite something-or-other” then realized I had to backtrack and try a different sibling of “discrete”.

Boys’ Life Tripods trilogy

This comic adaptation of John Christopher’s Tripods trilogy was the best part of Boys’ Life magazine for me. It started coming out the month after I became a boy scout.
http://the-haunted-closet.blogspot.com/2010/04/pool-of-fire-boys-life-mar-84-aug-86.html

Piano Genie

This project trained a neural net to predict, essentially, high res piano from low res input. You get to choose whether the note is higher or lower than the last one, but not the note itself; that’s up to the neural net to decide. There’s a version you can try out on the web!

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/pianogenie

Grail coin by romanbooteen

Custom coin carving with a knight, a removable sword, and a hidden grail!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpIaKDcDgsi/

Making of:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BoWsDuajyGM/?taken-by=romanbooteen

Meteor shower flows in 3d

A 3d interactive rendering of the solar system illustrating orbits of the meteors for each of the major showers.
https://www.meteorshowers.org/

G+ and website gone

I got rid of my Facebook account a month ago.  I used Google+ until it was announced that they’re shutting it down.  I also had a website on math.ucr.edu, but that server recently kicked the bucket, and it’s unclear whether the content is coming back.  The wayback machine has a copy from earlier this year, so not much would be lost if it doesn’t. But given those losses, it looks like I’ll be posting here more often. 

So to celebrate, here’s a fantastic video of a zebrafish embryo growing a nervous system.