Evan Haveman

source: web.mit.edu/sts.035/www/PD… and all images produced by Gemini / NanoBanana2.

In 1945, Vannevar Bush described the future of photography as "The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. It takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond present practice. The lens is of universal focus, down to any distance accommodated by the unaided eye, simply because it is of short focal length. There is a built-in photocell on the walnut such as we now have on at least one camera, which automatically adjusts exposure for a wide range of illumination. There is film in the walnut for a hundred exposure, and the spring for operating its shutter and shifting its film is wound once for all when the film clip is inserted. It produces its result in full color. It may well be stereoscopic, and record with spaced glass eyes, for striking improvements in stereoscopic technique are just around the corner. The cord which trips its shutter may reach down a man's sleeve within easy reach of his fingers. A quick squeeze, and the picture is taken. On a pair of ordinary glasses is a square of fine lines near the top of one lens, where it is out of the way of ordinary vision. When an object appears in that square, it is lined up for its picture. As the scientist of the future moves about the laboratory or the field, every time he looks at something worthy of the record, he trips the shutter and in it goes, without even an audible click"

Bush went on to describe a desk sized memex device for information storage, search, and retrieval.

"One can now picture a future investigator in his laboratory. His hands are free, and he is not anchored. As he moves about and observes, he photographs and comments. Time is automatically recorded to tie the two records together. If he goes into the field, he may be connected by radio to his recorder. As he ponders over his notes in the evening, he again talks his comments into the record. His typed record, as well as his photographs, may both be in miniature, so that he projects them for examination"

related (also mentioned in the article) state of the art speech synthesis: youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_d…

Big update to anagramish.com today!

made better index pages (with thumbnails!) for all my generative art projects emh.io/genart/genesis/ emh.io/genart/genuary…

Launched a new computer aided geometry tool today - replicates the process of making geometric constructions using only a compass and straight edge. emh.io/cag/

GENUARY 2026 Day 16: order and disorder - cyclic cellular automata #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary16 emh.io/genart/genuary…

GENUARY 2026 Day 15: invisible object - we have no way of viewing the tesseract other than to look at the shadow it projects into 3d space #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary15 emh.io/genart/genuary…

GENUARY 2026 Day 14: everything fits perfectly - circle packing #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary14 emh.io/genart/genuary…

vibe coded an infinite hexagonal minesweeper game emh.io/vibes/hexsweep…

GENUARY 2026 Day 13: self portrait - paints a portrait of the user by repeatedly stamping color squares onto the canvas #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary13 emh.io/genart/genuary…

GENUARY 2026 Day 12: boxes only - rendering a rolling wave using a quadtree #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary12 emh.io/genart/genuary…

for my next #genuary project i needed a nice rolling wave animation so instead of working on my project i vibe coded this cool wave editor instead emh.io/vibes/waves.ht…

GENUARY 2026 Day 11: quine - source of the script rendered as a grid of squares colored by token type and execution time for each character in the code. #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary11 emh.io/genart/genuary…

GENUARY 2026 Day 10: polar coordinates - trying out an l-system on a polar plane #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary10 emh.io/genart/genuary…

while prepping for my polar coords #genuary sketch i vibe coded this polar turtle graphics app emh.io/vibes/penguin.…