I was asked to make a blog for the NYU IMA Low Res graduate program. (I started with no tangible experience in interaction design.) Math is nature’s poetry, and these are just diary entries.
A heartbeat is actually just the measurement of blood flowing through arteries, very much like a sine wave. The amplitude is maximum blood flow, and the frequency is what we call the heart rate.
I wonder- In a universe tangent to ours, am I still sitting across from her writing this? Or, am I sitting across from you, in a firelit cabin, reviewing our grocery list?
I tend to think in words rather than abstract thoughts. This p5.js sketch is a decent representation of what it looks like inside of my mind. Structured chaos?