Three projections of an insect that kept on wandering around on my screen. By projections I mean that these were done via drawing right beneath the insect, trying to make the pixels it ‘occupied’ black.

This is an image of the International Space Station taken with my phone (what I also used to take an image of dividing cells and chromosomes a few months back) and with the help of this website, which tells you where the ISS is at the moment. The sky was really clear and full of stars, so it took me some time to locate it, but when I finally did and took the photograph it was striking how the phone saw nothing but the station. This is because the ISS is a much brighter object than stars, something that’s not obvious when seeing it with the naked eye.

Made this a long time ago, now it seems appropriate to post it. The algorithm behind it is pretty simple, it takes brightness values from an image and draws white boxes proportionate in dimension, and that’s about it, really.

photo booth

There’s this phenomenon, analysed and visualised a lot of times, that if you keep clicking on the first link in a Wikipedia article, you’ll eventually get to Philosophy (or, more precisely, into a loop that has Philosophy in it, and a couple of other related articles). So I decided to write my own code to test this, it’s in Python and it’s basically a crawler. Initially I was planning on making a tree-like visual output of this, but upon seeing how much is out there of the kind already, I chose showing how it runs in real time instead.

This is a gif of one run, starting from a random article (this time: J/22) and crawling until reaching Philosophy.

Unbelievable pattern in Madagascar. This is actual land.