make your own Mondrian by dragging lines and clicking tiles – Composition with JavaScript – (via kottke)

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What’s really going on.

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La formule appliquée est la suivante. Elle donne, selon les auteurs, le nombre de matches que chaque équipe devrait gagner. + (0.137 log (pop A / pop B)) + (0.145 log (richesse par habitant A / richesse par habitant B)) + (0,739 log (exp A / exp B)) + 0,657 comme prime pour le pays organisateur l’Afrique du Sud (via Coupe du Monde de Football : un algorithme donne les résultats | Pour ceux qui aiment le Net et @FredericBianchi)

To be published in Wired UK.

The linear regression predicts 72% of past results. Of course it doesn’t take into account that little random/suprise/adrenaline factor that makes the World Cup so damn hard to outwit. Serbia in finals? Come on!

“Computer Composition With Lines” 1964 This work closely mimics the painting “Composition With Lines” by Piet Mondrian. When reproductions of both works were shown to 100 people, the majority preferred the computer version and believed it was done by Mondrian. (via Examples of Noll’s Computer Art and kottke)

Last June I placed some photographic film into a tin cannister with a small hole punched into its side. The tin cannister was then attached to a clothes pole in my backgarden and left. (via Sun`s path June to December «)

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