Earlier today, I was sitting outside of Starbucks enjoying a warm cup of tea and a majestic clove, as I often do during the evenings. This time, however, it was not the usual Barnes and Noble Starbucks – I went to the mall Starbucks. Anyway, there’s a tree in the parking lot not far from the table I was sitting at, and since I was alone, I had a lot of time to think. I noticed that there were nearly thirty birds in the tree.
I saw a binary tree with the birds as nodes and the branches as strange, nonlinear edges. I became curious at that point about whether this binary bird tree was self-balancing or not, and whether it pruned from top-down or bottom-up. After all, birds are known to exhibit certain emergent phenomena while flocking – is it really so crazy to think that they balance their weight in a tree as well?
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I added a few new features to SpriteViewer. I’ve also created a dedicated page for it, so I won’t be littering the main page with updates about it henceforth. Check back every so at the Sprite Viewer page at the top.
this is a great work, nicely done. two kudos..
im sure the landscaper would have preferred a clove and coffee over a pair of clippers. i think – trees think all day long. i think trees consider and are masters of form, purpose and element. i think birds are inconsiderate and litter the sidewalk with poop. i think they do this because they are almost certainly hungry and wished you’d had interjected a cookie into your experience, in the hopes they’ll be a few crumbs pick over. i can imagine flying, i just can’t imagine doing it without the ability to articulate thought via 10 digits.
my neighbor cut down his tree, my friend “magnolia” lost an arm in the next wind storm.