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The Reality Triangle: Time

Part One of Three

Perhaps you’ve heard of, or seen, the so-called “reality triangle”, wherein three fundamental restrictions on the final outcome of any endeavor are laid forth. Good, fast, and cheap are the most-commonly encountered, and though I’ve seen various incarnations crop up over the yea...

Bouba, Kiki, And The Crime of Incuriosity

I feel that, among my readership, there's a selection bias toward appreciation for nerdy and esoteric topics that will lead some portion of you to know immediately the effect I'm referring to. For those who don't , you're one of the lucky ten thousand! Also, this post is directed in particular a...

SkyNet: Your Friendly Touring Lighting Designer, Appendix Of Additional Thoughts

Some thoughts that I wrote down during the writing of the previous two articles that didn't really fit into the articles as written, so I'll put them here as sort of...an appendix. These aren't really edited or in any sort of order, they're just things I hastily scribbled down while researching thes...

SkyNet: Your Friendly Touring Lighting Designer, Part II

We find ourselves, quite naturally, at a question – where does this leave humanity? The sorts of AI tech we discussed in our last column need not stop at lighting – the same sort of analysis / generation could fit into a theoretical framework for mixing music tracks, generating audio samples or even...