Saturday, October 8, 2011

Something happened to two Trumpeter swans...

http://www.artsnova.com/Processing_Recursion_Tutorial.html At this link is a tutorial by an artist about recursion as it relates to art...In the course of explaining, illustrations are shown...One picture shows recursion with planned out numbers...When you look, the image reminds me of sailboats...Later, you see a picture where random numbers are used to recurse...The picture reminds me of a speeding train...
  In Palgrave, there is a train that runs through...Palgrave is a town in Ontario, north & west of Toronto by a 35 minute drive...Two Trumpeter swans, a mother & child, were found near the tracks...A train...The train was speeding...Not just rolling, but speeding...I type the word speeding because a Trumpeter swan & her child can escape a sailboat...But not a speeding train...Speeding means going too fast...Speeding does not mean going at a pace that is within the law...Yes, train operators, engineers, speed too...As do UPS trucks...If they are in a hurry or impatient, they will set their large vehicle in motion & try to maintain a too fast speed so that they do not have to slow down...So they killed two Trumpeter swans...A mother & a child...a cygnet, but almost fully grown...I wonder if the train always goes too fast through this town & it got the name Palgrave...How many birds has this train killed?

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