I'm an appasionate divulgator. Particularly when it comes to speak about maths or science, and especially if I have a young audience in front. In 2006, in a time period of two weeks, I had the opportunity to be part of two events that I enjoyed a lot. Later Breakpoint seminar came, much more informal yet very enjoyable. And more will hopefuly come too.
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International Congress of Mathematicians
In August 2006 the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) took place in Madrid (Spain), where the Field Medals are given. Raul Ibaņez and Javier Barrallo got the opportunity to make two special events for the ICM: an international art contest in honor of Benoit Mandelbrot (with the help of Damien Jones), and a series of lecture with the topic "Demoscene: Mathematics in Movement". I made a painting for the first one, and more or less took responsability for the content of the second one. For that two of the best demosceners in 2006 came and helped: Kostas Pataridis from Greece (Navis/ASD) and Michal Staniszewski from Poland. The event was replicated in a cultural center accesible to the regular public in the center of Madrid. So we targeted two very different audiences (mathematicians in one side, "normal" (Bonzaj!) people in the other; but the message was the same for both: there is no need to be a mathematician to enjoy maths as we do in the demoscene. Click on the image on the right to access the material we used for the presentations. |
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Canary Islands, and Plane Deformations
In January 2007 I had the pleasure to be invited to Canary Islands by Isabel Marrero, from the Mathematical Analysis department of the Universidad de La Laguna, in Tenerife, for a few speeches during the "week of mathematics". This "week" had many activities around mathematics, and was aimed to help people learn that maths are everywhere. I adapted a bit the speeches from the ICM with young people in mind. The kids enjoyed, as they claps after each "demo" evidenced. I had the opportunity to meet Juan Rocha too, in Gran Canaria, where I spoke to students of informatics. The stay in Canary was very nice, and my hosts where specially kind. I definitively have to come back to Canary Islands. Get the presentation here. The big discovey was that everyone was attracted by a small application I wrote to help in the explanations from ICM and my visit here to Canary Islands. When I came back I took few days to finalize the application and make a usable program from it. Clicking on the image to the right, you can learn more about and download it. |
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Breakpoint 2007, Tricks and techniques for rgba's past and future intros
A seminar for the demoscene audience, with some tricks and techniques I developed between 2005 and 2007. It also contains a bit of the making-off our two best known intros. The main intention is to show that few simple ideas and techniques can be enough to make cool intros (not Breakpoint winning 64 kb, but well). Let's stop the mith that intros are complex to make. Because, ok may be they are, but not really so much after all! |
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BCN Party 2007, Mesh encoding for 4k intros
Another seminar for the demoscene audience, somehow as continuation of the previous one, about geometry compression, for the very nice BCN party in Spain. I hope you enjoy it, but you already missed a good opportunity to make questions there, so come next time!. |
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Inspire 2008, Making graphics in 4 kilobytes
This was a seminar for demosceners again, where I tried to convince them that the 4 kilobytes executable graphics competition it's a very interesting one, and where I showed some of the tricks I found while making my incursions on it. |
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