This is a map of Paris, and the black line is the path of a student around the city during the course of a year. The person who made the map was astonished by the narrowness of the subject’s movement – their movements basically made a triangle between a school, her residence, and her piano teacher, and there are big areas that the person never went to.
It’s from this post, via a comment on this flickr photo. The movement of the cat in the flickr photo – from food to heat – reminds me of a simple robot I read about – a small, wheeled thing that steers randomly, backs up and turns when it bumps into something, and homes in on its charger when it’s starting to run out of power. I remember thinking how cool that was – it’s completely autonomous, just following a simple set of rules. Some guy built it, and it ran around its house.
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