Kryptos (sculpture)

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Category: The Science of Art
Description: Sculptor, Jim Sanborn, was commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to create a piece of art. He came up with Kryptos, a mysterious four paneled work. Each panel contains a coded message, three of which have been solved. The fourth panel's secret is still elusive.
Website: Kryptos (sculpture)

Emily Howell - A computer program that creates original music

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Description: University of California music professor and computer programmer, David Cope, has created a computer program named Emily Howell that has a personality of sorts. Emily Howell, the program, analyzes a wide range of classical and modern music, then "she" composes new pieces of music in her own style. Emily can also change her musical compositions in response to David Cope's and an audience's feedback.
Emily is the latest experiment of Cope's. Emily's forerunner was name EMI (standing for "Experiments in Musical Intelligence). EMI, in contrast to Emily Howell, was more primitive. EMI's function was to analyze a database of classical music (including Bach and Mozart), then create music pieces that were similar to the music of the original composers.

Emily Howell's (the computer program's) first release is coming soon, to be release by Centaur Records.

More information: David Cope's entry on wikipedia

Mp3s of EMI's compositions can be found here, on David Cope's website.
Website: Emily Howell - A computer program that creates original music

WELOVETYPOGRAPHY

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Category: The Science of Art
Description: a really great typography blog for all the font-heads out there.
Website: WELOVETYPOGRAPHY

Perlin Noise

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Category: The Science of Art
Description: Perlin Noise is the texture used in computer graphics to simulate natural textures. Think of the last computer generated movie you watched. The graphical clouds, smoke or fire contained Perlin Noise to soften their hard edges.
Website: Perlin Noise