pattern

Sorry, this is my first thread and I didn't know what to put in the title to pique your interest... Anyhow I ordered a drink at a cocktail bar the other day and the weirdest thing happened when I started swirling the cocktail glass. The stenciled pattern on top of the drink swirled in the...

Human Essence is Pattern! Everything human is part emotion and part reason. Draw a line connecting emotion on one end and reason on the other end. All domains of knowledge lie somewhere between these two end points; with music being the end of the line at emotion and mathematics being at the...

I have an application that is as follows: I have a number of images, consider them to be like a new alphabet. I would like to compare an incoming image to the stored ones and create a match. It is basically an OCR task and such software would be ok if I could edit the library. Anyone have...

I was sitting down, bored, thinking about those 'amazing' sightings of holy people. Well, I figured, chances are I can find on in my desktop background. To my surprise, there one was! :D http://vis.sdsc.edu/research/images/orion/medhst.jpg if you look near the bottom left, you can see a...

William Gibson's newest, just got around to reading it. I've been a big fan of Gibson since Asimov's magazine thought highly enough of his first "cyberpunk" novel to serialize it; the first novel so treated. Pattern recognition is not being marketed as science fiction, and it is, in fact, more...