Not directly. Stochastic optimizing processes, or optimizing processes over stochastic data sets, tend to end up looking biological, because biological systems are stochastic optimizing processes.
-B On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Laurence Penney <[email protected]> wrote: > Utterly beautiful. > > Is it inspired by Günther von Hagens’s work with blood vessels? > > http://weheartit.com/entry/19937599 > http://plastynarium.pl/images/2011/10/krwiobieg.jpg > http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DaOtlZ8Ux7s/TFmhpAJziMI/AAAAAAAAADE/PFP15vpUZlU/s1600/bodies-revealed-blood-vessels.jpg > http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/media/picture_database/preview.html?id=4 > http://thedispersalofdarwin.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/img_0690.jpg > > - Laurence > > On 12 Mar 2012, at 16:11, Brandon Martin-Anderson wrote: > >> Behold! I made a thing. >> >> http://shortestpathtree.org >> >> It creates shortest path trees, which are pretty, and have a variety >> of uses. My favorite use is quickly and phenomenologically checking >> OSM referential integrity across entire cities. Also, potentially, it >> can tell you how to get places. Tell me how you like it. >> >> Colophon, for the interested: >> Server and client-side code is at https://github.com/bmander/vtp. I >> took Migurski's city extracts in PBF format and popped them into a >> Mongodb instance using a homebrew script in node.js. Then I applied a >> series of map-reduce runs to slice the ways at shared intersections, >> and to collect them into tiles. This is slow, but there's some home of >> parallelization. A simple node.js script serves the vector tiles to >> the client, where all routing is done; printed to a homebrew >> canvas-based client. The disadvantage is that routing is slow for you. >> The advantage is the server doesn't have to do anything except hand >> out tiles, which, ideally, should be pretty small. >> >> -B >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
