icosilune

About icosilune

Icosilune is maintained by Calvin Ashmore, who is currently a PhD student at the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech. This web site may be thought of as a collection of projects, a portfolio, a research journal, or just a general outlet of some kind. Right now it is primarily used as a page to base the research for my qualifying exams, and contains a great deal of reading summaries.

The word "icosilune" started off in the days of yore as a computer password because "icosahedron" was too many characters. It later evolved to represent some sort of tao like concept: icosilune is all things, real and unreal, named and unnamed, true and false, etcetera, etcetera. Eventually, it changed from that to the pointy logo that is on the top of the page. After that point I lost track of it as a meaningful symbol, but it nonetheless tends to show up on my work.

This webpage has existed in a variety of formations, previously in the form of "Assorted Miscellanea Etcetera". The intent of which was to show off the assorted projects and other miscellaneous things that I've worked on. This went well, but due to the sheer volume and random assortment of such things, it quickly presented a technical challenge. This was during the days before I was familiar with the existence of PHP, so I did the sensible thing and devised my own html preprocessing language. This helped substantially in getting things organized until it got overly complex. Now I'm using genuine PHP via Wordpress, and it seems to be going smoothly, at least for the time being.