I finishedreading the bookAlleen met mijWereld (English:Alone with My World) by Wessel Broekhuis, whichI started reading on February 1. I bought this book onSaturday, August 4, 2012. At the time of writing the author was sixteenyears old. At the age of four he was diagnosed withAsperger syndrome. The books has made me doubt my own ideas about beingin theautismspectrum.
In the past week, I worked ona program forfinding minimal touching solutions for theChineseWooden Puzzle, which is based on anearlierversion of the program. First I worked on a version that would extendpartial solutions such that pieces of the same colour are always connected,because I thought it would be easier to do the counting of extra touchingsintroduced. However, this algorithm did not find all solutions that it shouldfind, a bug that would require some serious work. Then, I went back to theprevious program, when I realized that there was a way of doing the counting ofextra touching in the complicated case. I verified the program in a number ofsteps and made some additional improvements, but in the end it turned out thatit was not much faster than the previous program and thus would not make iteasier to find minimal solutions. I ran the program for about ten hours tofind a solution for the 15 by 10 puzzle with only fourteen extra touchings. Itdid not return a single solution. An attempt to find a solution with zero extra touching, did not make much progress, while it is very likely that sucha solution should exists and that the algorithm should skip many branches ofthe search tree.
At 21:35, I arrived atTETEM art space tocollectStructure 1 byTeodoraIonesca, which I had bought onJanuary 9.Structure 1 resembles the first part ofThoughts, which is made on linden wood. Seems like it is a studyfor this work.
I am trying to find a 'simple' rule for predicting the number of solutions forvarious combinations of two non-overlapping polygon triangulations, wherethe number 1 and 2 assigned to triangles give, when added modulo 3 give thesame numbers at all vertices on the polygon. This is related to theFour colour theorem. The patterns weregenerated with ofa program and someJavaScript. It seems that more symmetric patternshave a higher number of solutions.
Remark: On April 23, I added colouring of certain regions, with the ideathat these could be a clue to the riddle
Aki Akademie voor Beeldende Kunst eindexamencatalogus 1993,ISBN:9789073025059, for € 2.50.
Contour: Een momentopname van de Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstby Janneke Wesseling for € 1.50. This contains some reproductionsof works byPeter Struycken.
Eindexamencatalogus 2005: AKI Akademie Voor Beeldende Kunst enVormgeving Enschede, ISBN:9789075522259", for € 2.50.
At 11:35, I bought the publicationGeënt op Bosch by Els Hoek andSjarel Ex for € 10.00 from Antiquariaat Frans Melk. It contains areproduction of a work byPeter Struycken
I biked around the city this afternoon, but it was only on my way home that Irealized that I one of the few people having a car who chose to take the bikeinstead. The combination of rain and wind is not ideal weather for biking. Ibiked about 19.6 Km (12.2 miles). (The route I biked inGoogle Earth:KML file orin Google Maps.) I first visitedTETEM art space and looked at the exhibitions. First, I looked atAKI Electrique in Medialap. Next, I looked at some short film abouta girl who visits her father, who smokes weed, and complains about school:she want to be an individual, but not be all on her own. Last, I looked atApprentice/Master: Glitchwith master artistsPatrick MangnusandHenny Overbeek. I was not veryimpressed.
I was rather tired when I arrived home and did not start cooking immediately.I madekail hotchpotch. I used 600 gram of readysliced potatoes. I did not have a smoked sausage. I did used bacon pieces, ared union, a clove of garlic, slice of ginger and a little sambal. I alsoadded some turmeric and cumin. I used a little milk and added gherkins on thedish.
At 17:50, I boughtEindexamencatalogus 2008: AKI/ArtEz Academie VoorBeeldende Kunsten Enschede : AKI Jaarboek 0708 edited by Peter C. Sonderen,ISBN:9789075522334, fromthrift store Het Goedfor € 2.50.
Basta 1998: A Yearbook of Contemporary Art in the Netherlands/jaarboekvan de hedendaagse kunst in Nederland by Sabine Terra, Maarten Jansen,and others, ISBN:9789073285590, for € 1.50.
Op weg naar een nieuwe wereld: Mondriaan en zijn sporen in de beeldendekunst by Toos Dijkhuis, Nini Jonker, and Melissa de Vreede,ISBN:9789069970660, for € 2.75.
