[NetBehaviour] string theory

[Alan Sondheim]

Why string theory and not string transformations? Just curious.
One thing comes to mind - if you page fast down, you get motion - there 
are people who have made ascii films that way - and I think even Guy 
Debord's situationist film was treated that way - Alan


On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, james morris wrote:

>
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>
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> ##(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)
> ###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)########
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> 2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1
> )(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)####
> ###########(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)############
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> )(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)####
> ###########(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)############
> ###(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)##
> ##(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)
> ###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)########
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> 2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####(1
> )(3)###############(2)####(1)(3)###############(2)####
>
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>
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>
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>
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