{"id":13090,"date":"2012-08-22T20:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=13090"},"modified":"2012-08-22T20:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:26:57","slug":"a-graphic-mix-and-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=13090","title":{"rendered":"A graphic mix and match"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — the serious-minded can safely ignore this post, which is of mainly aesthetic interest, surely a matter of no importance in its own right ]
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Two graphics caught my eye today, one after another in my RSS feed. <\/p>\n

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The upper image comes from DARPA, and is not really explained in any detail by the otherwise interesting Wired piece<\/a> that it illustrated — but is easy and intriguing to the eye anyway, and somehow has to do with a return to analog computing: <\/p>\n

Through its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the DoD is funding a new program called UPSIDE, short for Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation. Basically, the program will investigate a brand-new way of doing computing without the digital processors that have come to define computing as we know it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, new this time around the block, anyway.<\/p>\n

The second (lower image), totally unrelated to the first but almost its twin to my mind’s eye, shows a “literary moonscape” by the artist Guy Laram\u00e9e<\/strong>, created by sculpting it out of an old book, h\/t The Paris Review, Saatchi Gallery and 3quarksdaily.<\/p>\n

In my view, Laram\u00e9e has an impressive understanding of books and how they serve as portals into other worlds<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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