Odds of losing in roulette
Mar 13, 2012 12:49 am • Permalink 
Jay Jacobs has some fun with roulette simulations and explores the odds of winning for different bets. Above shows a simulation of 250 spins 20,000 times. Or to put it differently, it's like simulating the play of 20,000 people, who each took 250 spins and always bet on a single number.
I'm not sure why it doesn't start to get red until you're $500 in the hole, but bottom line: the longer you play, the higher probability you will lose all your money. That was my main takeaway from Probability 101 in undergrad. The rest is a blur.
Generative art portrays beauty in movement
Mar 12, 2012 03:15 am • Permalink Heading towards the 2012 Olympics in London, Quayola and Memo Aktenvia translate athletic movement, which in itself is often considered beautiful, to generative animations. Collectively, the piece is called Forms, which is on exhibit at the National Media Museum.
Forms is a digital artwork that responds to the human body in motion. It focuses exclusively on the mechanics of movement, using footage of world-class athletes to illustrate human movement at the extremes of perfection.
Videos of athletes were processed through custom software to create evolving abstract forms that explore the relationships between the human body and its movements through time and space.
There's also a short Q&A with the artists on the Creators Project that's worth a read.
[via The Creators Project]
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