Thursday, October 21, 2010

Demoscene at the International Congress of Mathematicians

icm 2006 - Demoscene - Mathematics in Movement by Iñigo Quílez
http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/icm2006/icm2006.htm

… Our demoscene speeches in the ICM were of course a bit technical, but for the Conde Duque we made them quite more generic, showing more "noise and colors" than slides of course. People were impressed, they made many questions and we got a lot of positive feedback, especially in the form of "You HAVE TO show all this to the general public, in the media, go to schools and university, this is fantastic....". Well, that was like a dream for me. In the ICM they were more impressed by the technological side instead, they found impressive that "all that in 64 kilobytes?!" and "that is realtime???", but still got the main idea I wanted to transmit them: "this guys do really enjoy maths and have developed a intuitive and creative way of using it!" …

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