Talk:Randomness

From Maze

Note for citation, use format (Montford 2009, p. 24)

Notes from Skype 2 February 2011: - Historical factors and context from which "random" emerged. Certain things in time. - The meanings of what "random" means in computing vs common use in language. What does the concept of randomness mean to different people? People in computing vs. the general public.

Note from Noah: I have edited the first half of the randomness_in_the_arts, combined it with a few paragraphs about random music and pasted them here.

Note from Casey: I haven't put my notes into prose yet, but I have basic material here and more forthcoming here Randomness_in_the_Arts

After spending some hours on researching Truchet, I don't think his work fits in Random. The work he did on tiling is extraordinary and entirely relevant to 10 Print, but I can't find a single instance where Truchet himself used random values. If we move forward with a section about "grids" then I think he should go there. The article "The Tiling Patterns of Sebastien Truchet and the Topology of Structural Hierarchy" published in Leonardo has a translation of Truchet's original document.