PART 12: Art
No E-numbers Software Product Sticker
Paleo-debugging: Excavated Minidump
Stack Trace Art
This is an artwork commissioned for the New Year of DeBugging 0×7DB. How many bugs can you count there? Use a magnifying glass98 as seen on debugging books covers:
Debugger's Dream
This is the best viewed in color99.
Defect in Defect
Memorianity Cross
The Church of Memory acquires its first symbol as a cross with 4 pointers and a background natural memory visualization (Volume 1, page 532) image extracted from one of computer memory dumps:
Memioart: The New Art Form
As the number of crash dump analysis pattern icons100 approaches 100 (at the time of this writing) with software trace analysis patterns (and other troubleshooting and debugging pattern categories) on the horizon with every icon as a symbol signifying certain computer memory signs (computer memory semiotics101 is called memiotics, as a part of memoretics discipline) we found it necessary to name the new form of art. We decided upon the name Memioart. We also plan to write commentaries on memioicons (semioicons) to explain elements on pattern icons and reasons why we chose them.
Clouded
Cloud Traces
This is the first Computicart (Computical102 Art) composition. Note that memory dumps are just bigger software traces and software traces are just smaller memory dumps.
What Is To Be Done?
We showed this artwork to many people and they responded that they didn't understand or hoped one day they would understand. Only one professional manager responded positively with understanding. We think real art can be interpreted in many ways.
This Computicart (Computical Art) work was inspired by a pet parrot. We've been observing its behavior for more than 6 months and tried to discern a few patterns. Its name is KiKi (not related to Ki* functions).
98 http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/files/StackTraceArt.gif
99 http://www.dumpanalysis.org/arts-photography
100 http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/crash-dump-analysis-patterns/
101 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
102 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Computical