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The following quote, often attributed to Einstein, is a gem:
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
However, QuoteInvestigator points out that it is likely due to the sociologist William Bruce Cameron, who wrote the following in his 1963 text Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking.
It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I’m making progress on the black box to control Seurat. Below is the left half of a recent frame from the program, and below that is a photo of the black box, a breadboard with a small circuit, and an Arduino board.
There are four knobs on the box, two of which are hooked up and two switches which I will mount later. One switch selects the bank of controls to use (I have only six, the number of analogue input pins on the Arduino board). At present I can control color, object size, and frame rate with the knobs and switches. To add: alpha, color velocity, a selector shape.
Circle and Square 