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Tests/exploring Celtic designs/knots Layouts: I color coded the individual parts of the knots to help keep track of what's where, since otherwise I would have near zero idea what I was doing. These designs are less of a design and more of a puzzle. Every corner, I have to untie these knots and retie them …
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Research: PCs This week I dove more into the CPU space, and researched the current state of the market. I currently have an AMD processor in my PC, and honestly I can't wait for AMD's next generation of Ryzen processors. AMD is currently set to mass-produce their new "7 nanometer" (7nm) processors as soon as May. …
Artist 1: Chuck Close Close's workflow was incredibly slow due to the realistic nature of his portraits. He started out as a photographer, but moved into the painting workspace to try to recreate a similar sense of realism via a different medium. “Chuck Close Paintings, Bio, Ideas.” The Art Story, http://www.theartstory.org/artist-close-chuck.htm. Artist 2: Leonora Carrington …
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Research: PCs This week I got a more in-depth look at how large servers work, or at least the components they use. Some server-based motherboards can have space for up to four processors on a single board, with RAM for each one. This can lead to some configurations of up to 200+ cores and upwards …
Nordic homes The Nordic people seemed to build their homes for many families, similar to native American longhouses. They also had smaller homes built into the ground, and both styles of houses seemed to have been constructed with defense in mind. Viking warships Nordic and viking warships were very intricately carved. A lot of the …
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Santorini is one of the many Greek islands in the Mediterranean, known mostly for its blue-roofed churches. The island was the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history, the Minoan eruption. It only occurred 3,600 years ago, and is credited as collapsing the Minoan civilization of the nearby island of Crete …
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The second this assignment was given, I wanted to go with the Norse story of creation. Not because I knew anything about it, but because Thor is my favorite Marvel superhero. I knew a few things about the creation story, that Odin is the father of all things, that there are a number of realms, …
Research Over break I added some braided cables to my rig, so upgrades all around. I also built a secondary (and tertiary) rig, purely for entertainment reasons. With the second, I decided to do something I've never done: modify the PC case itself. I used some cutters to rip off the metal bars between the …
Jacob Guzzino 