A triumph of matter over mind. In a message dated 24/02/2014 04:35:21 GMT Standard Time, dmendesf@gmail.com writes: This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day.... Daniel _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Really impressive would be to have it create the patterns that make the numeric display out of only several feet of slowly moving rope connected as a loop... but that would require some thinking, rather than just a brute force approach. -Chuck Harris GandalfG8@aol.com wrote: > A triumph of matter over mind. > > > In a message dated 24/02/2014 04:35:21 GMT Standard Time, > dmendesf@gmail.com writes: > > > This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i > think that at least some of you will enjoy it: > > http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 > > Found it at hack a day.... > > Daniel

So that is what string theory is all about! Who knew? Tom Holmes, N8ZM -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-bounces@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces@febo.com] On Behalf Of GandalfG8@aol.com Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:02 AM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery A triumph of matter over mind. In a message dated 24/02/2014 04:35:21 GMT Standard Time, dmendesf@gmail.com writes: This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day.... Daniel _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

On 2/24/14 6:08 AM, Chuck Harris wrote: > Really impressive would be to have it create the > patterns that make the numeric display out of only > several feet of slowly moving rope connected as a > loop... but that would require some thinking, rather > than just a brute force approach. > > It's art, after all.. Maybe the huge pile of rope is part of the art? Like the threads of life that the 3 fates decide to cut. Or if the rope/thread gets tangled and jammed. And the fact that the machine cannot go backwards. There is a mention in the write up of the whole order out of chaos thing, too. The artist has some other interesting things.. the "dot matrix" graffiti printer, for instance.

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In message <530B5258.4060202@erols.com>, Chuck Harris writes: >Really impressive would be to have it create the >patterns that make the numeric display out of only >several feet of slowly moving rope connected as a >loop... but that would require some thinking, rather >than just a brute force approach. Nah... Just run it through a turing machine which counts the seconds/minutes whatever, and you're golden: http://aturingmachine.com/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.