Parallel processes

Simulation and parallel processes have been fascinating me ever since I got a computer in 1982. Our personal computers have only started to have multiple processor cores in the last few years and can therefore, in principle, run just as many processes in parallel (leaving aside advanced single processor techniques). Still, it is very fascinating to simulate parallel processes even with a serial machine.

Diffusion

What happens when a bunch of hot particles diffuse into space and thereby cool down? I achieved a simple picture with this study I made on the Archimedes computer in BasicV. It is not a physics research lab, but it is an investigation of its artistic usability.

Video

The video here is a digitized VHS recording I made of the screen and that was recorded from the unstable composite video output. The images were calculated in real time. For 1988 and in Basic, really quite an achievement in speed and colour. I wonder if anyone can still imagine that today.

Sound

The sound is also a sound study and was made on a Korg MS 20 which I had in my studio at the time (1988).

laatste update: 2021.06.06