{"id":1406,"date":"2010-07-10T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T22:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2010-07-10T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T22:50:15","slug":"weird-scenes-inside-the-goldmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s actually a lot of goldmines out there in the outer reaches of our computer<\/em> system.\u00a0 None of us have been to all of them, but we’ve all been to some of them.\u00a0 I don’t know where exactly this one is, but you can find all the scenes from it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is what’s written at the entrance to the mine:<\/p>\n

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A gallery of large graphs<\/h1>\n

graph drawing of matrices in the University of Florida Collection<\/h2>\n

Graph visualization is a way to discover and visualize structures in complex relations. What sort of structures are people who do large scale computation studying? We can get a glimpse by visualizing the thousands of sparse matrices submitted to the University of Florida Sparse Matrix collection<\/a> using sfdp algorithm <\/a>. The resulting gallery contains the drawing of graphs as represented by 2328 sparse matrices in this collection. Each of these sparse matrices (a rectangular matrix is treated as a bipartite graph) is viewed as the adjacency matrix of an undirected graph, and is laid out by a multilevel graph drawing algorithm<\/a>. If the graph is disconnected, then the largest connected component is drawn. The largest graph (Schenk@nlpkkt240) has 27,993,600 vertices and 366,327,376 edges. A simple coloring scheme is used: longer edges are colored with colder colors, and short ones warmer. The graphs are in alphabetical order. Use the “Search” link to find graphs of specific characters.<\/p>\n

from: http:\/\/www2.research.att.com\/~yifanhu\/GALLERY\/GRAPHS\/index1.html<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The computer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on<\/p><\/div>\n

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What page in a mathbook ever looked like this?<\/p><\/div>\n

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I should have been a bag of glowing mesh, gliding across the floors of silent seas<\/p><\/div>\n

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I argued with infinity. I wish I hadn't.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I just like it<\/p><\/div>\n

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Somewhere, this was the topic of an advanced technical discussion<\/p><\/div>\n

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It looks like this<\/p><\/div>\n

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And this too<\/p><\/div>\n

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Why? Why did it do that?<\/p><\/div>\n

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you don't know what you're digging, until it's been dug<\/p><\/div>\n

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1. I got a handle on it 2. I had a handle on it 3. What's a handle?<\/p><\/div>\n

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The machine is humble and efficient. It would draw another picture before it would ever sign its name.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another picture<\/p><\/div>\n

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This could be a sub-atomic energy cloud, or a map of the universe<\/p><\/div>\n

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It all makes sense, the longer you stare at it<\/p><\/div>\n

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We know art doesn't have to be useful, but do we also know that art doesn't have to be useless?<\/p><\/div>\n

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It's perfect. What does perfect mean?<\/p><\/div>\n

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The elegant effervescence of electricity<\/p><\/div>\n

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It pretends to be a car, and slips away unseen<\/p><\/div>\n

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Can a prison cell be a work of art?<\/p><\/div>\n

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So little, so much<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to but does it float<\/em><\/a> for helping me find the Goldmine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s actually a lot of goldmines out there in the outer reaches of our computer system.\u00a0 None of us have been to all of them, but we’ve all been to some of them.\u00a0 I don’t know where exactly this one is, but you can find all the scenes from it here. This is what’s written … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/AMD%40G3_circuit.gif?fit=540%2C426","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4108,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=4108","url_meta":{"origin":1406,"position":0},"title":"Arvinder Bawa’s Fractal Exhibition in Spain","author":"Tim","date":"8 November, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Arvinder Bawa recently had a showing of his fractal artworks in Laredo, Cantabria, Spain at the Sala Ruas gallery.\u00a0 The poster explains it best: ~Click on images to view full-size on original site~ Arvinder has written an interesting explanation to accompany the exhibit.\u00a0 I like his simple language and layman's\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/19.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5474,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=5474","url_meta":{"origin":1406,"position":1},"title":"No Talk of Art at Fractal Art Conference","author":"cruelanimal","date":"1 September, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Untitled by Alice Olive \u00a0 And then you get an artist says he doesn't want to paint at all He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall --\"In the Gallery,\" Dire Straits I wrote last time about my concerns that most fractal \"artists\" are more accurately merely\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=5474#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/UntitledbyAliceOlive_sm.jpg?fit=450%2C299&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3426,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=3426","url_meta":{"origin":1406,"position":2},"title":"Renderfeast!","author":"Tim","date":"9 November, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A collection of uniquely rendered fractal things. 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