Comments on: Quantum Randomizer http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/quantum-randomizer/ www.abstractmachine.net is a code|art project initiated by Douglas Edric Stanley. It explores the relationships between algorithms and art. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:31:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: abstractmachine » Stop making sense http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/quantum-randomizer/#comment-65631 abstractmachine » Stop making sense Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:30:09 +0000 http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/quantum-randomizer/#comment-65631 <p>[...] The hilarious idea then becomes number generation via biological phenomena, similar to what I’ve spoken about in the past (cf. Quantum Randomizer, Snowy Tree Cricket, etc). This is actually already a reality in the LOEIL laboratory where we’re working: Jean-Pierre Mandon hacked a Linksys router into a Linux-server that sends the Mormyr rhythms to us over UDP. Then Guillaume Stagnaro used the Hypermedia UDP Library Stéphane Cousot and I built last year to grab these UDP feeds through Processing and by the end of the first day we had this ridiculous little sketch (cf. Happy Code Farm) animating a silly little fish using the data feed. The idea is to make this a permanent feed (data and audio) which could then be fed into the Locus Sonus streams. So basically we’ve built something equivalent to what I suggested was possible a few months back concerning the Snowy Tree Cricket. [...]</p> [...] The hilarious idea then becomes number generation via biological phenomena, similar to what I’ve spoken about in the past (cf. Quantum Randomizer, Snowy Tree Cricket, etc). This is actually already a reality in the LOEIL laboratory where we’re working: Jean-Pierre Mandon hacked a Linksys router into a Linux-server that sends the Mormyr rhythms to us over UDP. Then Guillaume Stagnaro used the Hypermedia UDP Library Stéphane Cousot and I built last year to grab these UDP feeds through Processing and by the end of the first day we had this ridiculous little sketch (cf. Happy Code Farm) animating a silly little fish using the data feed. The idea is to make this a permanent feed (data and audio) which could then be fed into the Locus Sonus streams. So basically we’ve built something equivalent to what I suggested was possible a few months back concerning the Snowy Tree Cricket. [...]

]]> By: oscar http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/quantum-randomizer/#comment-40372 oscar Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:21:22 +0000 http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/quantum-randomizer/#comment-40372 <p>A few years back, the guys at SGI created a random number generator based on images from a webcam shooting an array of lava lamps. It was cumbersome and a little silly (the lava lamps had to be run on timers to prevent overheating), but it truly generated random numbers.</p> <p>Anyhow, that lavarand has been replaced by a new <a href="http://www.lavarnd.org/what/index.html" rel="nofollow">lavarnd</a> that is much simpler and can be built by anyone. It basically consists of a webcam CCD placed in a dark enclosure. The noise from the chip is sampled and run through various algorithms to arrive at a random number.</p> A few years back, the guys at SGI created a random number generator based on images from a webcam shooting an array of lava lamps. It was cumbersome and a little silly (the lava lamps had to be run on timers to prevent overheating), but it truly generated random numbers.

Anyhow, that lavarand has been replaced by a new lavarnd that is much simpler and can be built by anyone. It basically consists of a webcam CCD placed in a dark enclosure. The noise from the chip is sampled and run through various algorithms to arrive at a random number.

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