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@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 10 months ago

The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 10 months ago
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Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...
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    4•10 months ago

    considers

    You could probably do these automatically, given an automated loom – one of our first forms of programmable industrial hardware – and a chip layout description.

    kagis

    Here’s an inexpensive computer-controlled loom for $10k-$15k:

    https://www.camillavalleyfarm.com/weave/weavebird.htm

    I assume that the same design could be scaled up with larger motors and parts, worst case, so that probably puts a ceiling on about what it’d cost to do this automatically.

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      This is funny as the first punch card program was designed to automate looms:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine

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      5•10 months ago

      At the bottom of the article there’s a tapestry of an NVIDIA graphics chip created on a computer-controlled loom.

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