Just got to eek these intermediary ones out so I can get to my beautiful Eastern Shore pics.
8.1.2010 – 8.7.2010
Not many pics.
Events: Driving back from North Carolina, Carytown, Sleep Study (for sleep apnea), Norfolk trip for American citizenship test (I’m originally British), Be Here Now (Baba Ram Dass).
So when I was in Norfolk I passed by Brooke street, I parked one next to Parking Meter 108, some dude had a license plate 67 numbers away from mine and I stayed at a crappy scary hotel called the “Ascend Collection”. Whilst sitting at a bar next door and trying to figure out how to represent all iterations of Tic Tac Toe on a 2-dimensional grid, a girl dressed as Rosie the Riveter and one dressed as a bride/princess (same thing?) sat down next to me. I think they were just doing it for the hell of it, but I was given explicit instructions not to put the picture on the web.
The License Plate Coincidence
Luckily, one of the pictures includes my own license plate for reference. Only 67 numbers apart.
The Many Iterations of Tic Tac Toe
So this was my Tic Tac Toe idea: I wanted to represent all Tic Tac Toe iterations in one two dimensional picture. It turns out I’d need a big piece of paper. Might make a nice poster actually. I really need to do it in Flash where one can zoom in for more detail.
Here’s how it works:
- Due to the inherent laws of the Tic Tac Toe universe, the first quadrant selection is always an X. From there, you can divide the remaining quadrants into tic tac toe grids (3×3 cells) and in each represent all of the next choices you can make, the quadrant that the O player will choose.
- If you choose a quadrant you can then divide those remaining quadrants and assume that for the rest of THAT fractal descent, the previous choices will be occupying the positions in the quadrant (center, top right, etc.) you already chose. The choice of selecting that quadrant again will no longer be available and the choices get quickly smaller and smaller as you zoom down into all possible choices.
- Some games will end early but no map will ever get smaller than 9 choices in (a tie game).
So, I never finished. But do you get where I’m going with it? I want to be able to navigate through probabilities in a universe with a specific ruleset. I want to move backward and forward through time and see all options played out before me in one plane. You could see the strategic future of your choices… even color code each inner quadrant from red to green to indicate how many winning choices are available from that next move.
Well, I thought it was interesting anyway.
Oil in Noodle Bowl
See the light reflections in each ball of oil? It reminds me of my flash evolution experiment.
http://www.kindagamey.com/flash/evolution/
The Labyrinth x 3
1. I walked a Labyrinth in the Eastern Shore. Not something I do every day, mind you. In fact, I’ve never done it.
2. The book I ordered A Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe which came in the mail after I got back from the Eastern Shore has the same Labryinth on one of the pages.
3. As I’m posting the Baba Ram Dass Be Here Now pictures I notice that the same Labyrinth is in that book too! I was reading this book before I went to the Eastern shore, then lended it to my brother before the trip.
Preview Pics
I always give you some preview pics, but you have to click MORE to get to the gallery list. Unless you linked here directly in which case you don’t have to click nothin.
I call this one, “Modern Youth.” I don’t like to toot my own tooter, but that is a freaking epic picture.
