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January 16, 2015
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How To Think About Software

A deck I use when giving talks about software to students and young children.

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Douglass Turner

January 16, 2015

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Transcript

  1. How To Think About Software Douglass Turner Elastic Image Software

  2. Software is hand made

  3. Software is pure thought stuff

  4. Software is eating the world

  5. A camera is not a camera A photo is not

    a photo
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  10. A camera is software A picture is software

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  12. Without software this is just an inert piece of silicon

  13. iPad PhotoBooth Demo

  14. Foto Demo

  15. Elastic Image Software LLC

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  20. void main() { vec4 raw = texture2D(hero, v_st); vec3 inverted

    = 1.0 - raw.rgb; gl_FragColor = vec4(inverted, 1.0); }

  21. r 0.517 g 0.231 b 0.196

  22. rinverted = 1 - r ginverted = 1 - g

    binverted = 1 - b

  23. r 0.483 g 0.769 b 0.804

  24. Is It Real?

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  29. Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi

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  36. Bali, Indonesia

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  45. How to Be Awesome

  46. See

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  50. The Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern Art The Noguchi Museum

    The High Line* ET Modern* Storm King Art Center *free

  51. UnPlug

  52. Write It Down

  53. Ask

  54. Steal

  55. Believe

  56. Doug Turner Elastic Image Software email: [email protected] mobile: 781 775

    3708 twitter: @dugla skype: dduuggllaa