I knew Tom Dowdy's name as a 14 year old kid in the early 90s; from DarkSide, which was an important inspiration to me trying to write graphics demos at the time, and I knew I'd seen his name in Apple credits. I've just been reading today how admired and loved he was, and I fell deep into his journals from the culinary academy, and his over-the-top method of making cassoulet, which is my favorite dish on the planet and seems like it was one of his. Many years later, my ex and I also talked about quitting the racket and going to culinary school, but I didn't have the guts. He sounds like an extraordinary fellow, and his work left an impression in my brain. I got DarkSide running on macintosh.js today and took a screenshot of his lovely "Kaos" algorithm, which builds these abstract works over time; I remember watching it for hours on a Mac II.

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