the class-o-matic

A particularly gifted former student who has since gone on to far away fame and fortune as an animator and 3D imaging software developer, sent me this interesting site.

Digital two please have a visit; a site about informatics, the emerging if reluctant marriage of information and imaging - now enjoying a great leap forward far removed from the land of bar graphs and pie charts.

Word to the wise my little monkeys, while the author of the site genuinely enthuses that beauty is possible in the world of quantization, his work itself, regrettably, is not that remarkable.

In Our Library (an antique colloquialism if there ever was one, they store these things called books, perhaps you've heard of them ?) are a number of really beautiful texts by Edward Tufte, if you're at all interested in the subject or plan to pass our class, (and it is an interesting and vigorously evolving field of work) have a look at his books. the word informatics is linked ...