Sunday, September 09, 2007

The Sun

Evolutionary Art. Interactive Genetic Algorithms. Pure math and human selection. But how cool to me when an image comes out representing the best of my day, or more strangely, when it represents one real thing, like the sky, or in this case, the sun.

Cheers.




O SUN of real peace! O hastening light!
O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!
O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height—and you too, O my Ideal, will surely ascend!
O so amazing and broad—up there resplendent, darting and burning!
O vision prophetic, stagger’d with weight of light! with pouring glories!
O lips of my soul, already becoming powerless!
O ample and grand Presidentiads! Now the war, the war is over!
New history! new heroes! I project you!
Visions of poets! only you really last! sweep on! sweep on!
O heights too swift and dizzy yet!
O purged and luminous! you threaten me more than I can stand!
(I must not venture—the ground under my feet menaces me—it will not support me:
O future too immense,)—O present, I return, while yet I may, to you.

Walt Whitman, 295, (from Leaves of Grass).

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