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“It works!”

I heard a squeal of delight as a certain young boy I know found an interesting worm hole in the Mac OS. He used the Mac on the left to control the screen of the Mac in the middle. Then he had the middle control the one on the right. And then he looped the one on the far right to control the one on the far left, and the reverb ring was complete. All three screens zoomed into hyperspace.

It’s a wifi hall of mirrors in the fun house.

14 responses to “Mobius Mac”

  1. Astrocatou Avatar
    Astrocatou

    The more I here about all this…the less I like it !

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  2. aloof lock Avatar
    aloof lock

    My head is spinning already!

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  3. Michael Hodson Avatar
    Michael Hodson

    I have absolutely no idea what any of that means, but I like the retainer.

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  4. Erik Charlton Avatar
    Erik Charlton

    Nice!

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  5. jimheid Avatar
    jimheid

    Why, when I was a kid, we used barber shop mirrors for this sort of thing.

    This is a lot better.

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  6. Vanita Avatar
    Vanita

    That Christmas chemistry set is looking a little more dangerous now.

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  7. solerena Avatar
    solerena

    Cool hall of mirrors and mobius strip is an amazing concept, especially when it looks like a shell: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip

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  8. jitze Avatar
    jitze

    Douglas Hofstadter (of GEB – Gödel, Escher, Bach– fame) wrote a book in 2007 devoted exactly to this kind of "phenomenon and cites almost the same set-up as an example. The book is titled "I am a strange loop" and is an excellent read if you have the intellectual horse-power to follow it through. Like with his first book, my brain imploded somewhere between chapters 3 and 5 and I had to re-boot and start again at chapter 1.

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  9. Dr DAD (Daniel A D'Auria MD) Avatar
    Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

    The leaf doesn’t fall far from the tree. Nice to see him following in Dad’s footsteps. Those "squeals of delight" are a treasure. Visions of my children’s smiling faces is what gets me through my day so many times.

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  10. TomiTapio Avatar
    TomiTapio

    I aimed a 3 MPix digital camera at the television it was videocable-connected to.

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  11. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    You’re like Jimi Hendrix pixel jamming….

    jitze: loved that book. I think you’d like Kevin Kelley’s Out of Control too…

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  12. biotron Avatar
    biotron

    briiliant! 🙂

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  13. TwelveX Avatar
    TwelveX

    I’ve VNC’d into my Linux desktop from a window on that same desktop… sadly it locks up instead of giving this wonderful infinite mirror effect. 🙁

    -Phil

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  14. nhr Avatar
    nhr

    I thought it might be a virtual theremin controlled by hand movements — e.g. horizontal for pitch, vertical for timbre, back to front for volume.

    Two or more webcam-equipped laptops could indeed merge their pictures to determine the hands’ positions in 3D space, à la Microsoft Kinect.

    With two hands, the user could actually generate two separate melodic lines, and experiment e.g. with counterpoint 😉

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