genetic algorithms

caga downloadable Mac software that illustrates and so explains genetic algorithms by inviting the user to select cellular automata to converge to their own aesthetic.

cellular automata in design

genetic algorithms in music

GIS (geographical information systems)

shim downloadable Mac software that translates ESRI ArcView shapefiles to client-side imagemaps for use on the web; polys all generalised to fewer than 99 points.

map-generating custom avenue applications, and tree-selection database for Friends of the Urban Forest (SF)

Salton Sea

the back of the envelope: simple salinity modelling

a dialog

salinity calculator (requires Firefox or mac IE5+)

some papers/talks

significance tests

paradigm and scientific method

the nature of physical reality

Unthinkable thoughts - Einstein then and now

talk to the johnston college gyst

older software

a program to teach and implement the revised simplex method

handwriting : converts input from keyboard into context-sensitive illegibility