tramp with orchestra

Three projections of an insect that kept on wandering around on...

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:13:00 -0400

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...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:44:00 -0400

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....

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:14:00 -0400

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

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:22:04 -0400

photo booth

different aspects of the same fire

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:34:00 -0400

different aspects of the same fire

There’s this phenomenon, analysed and visualised a lot of...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:44:00 -0400

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.

Building upon an idea that came up while scanning my...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:47:00 -0400

Building upon an idea that came up while scanning my laptop’s screen I wrote some code that effectively scans a video producing images with both spatial and temporal dimensions. After that I realized that scanning a certain video several times starting from consecutive frames actually produces a set of frames that could be made into a video again. This is the result.

a tribute to my long dead father

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:43:00 -0400

read his obituary here

sky | land A couple of photos I made with my phone. I have been...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:20:00 -0500

sky | land

A couple of photos I made with my phone. I have been thinking about acquiring a proper imaging device for some time now, but I’m still not convinced that’s really necessary.

The photos are obviously heavily retouched as a consequence, but that’s something I don’t abhor.

Unbelievable pattern in Madagascar. This is actual land.

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:37:28 -0500

Unbelievable pattern in Madagascar. This is actual land.

Snow reflects and refracts neon lighting in interesting ways,...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:27:08 -0500

Snow reflects and refracts neon lighting in interesting ways, apparently.

So what I did was scanning my screen while playing this video....

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:02:00 -0500

So what I did was scanning my screen while playing this video. The outcome is just great, you can actually see both the temporal and spatial dimensions on a single still image. Notice how the waves climb onto each other and stay there for eternity.

I might try and write a code that does this at some point.

just messing around with processing

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:36:21 -0500

just messing around with processing

Half of a cabbage.

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 07:33:24 -0500

Half of a cabbage.

Circular growth of lychen on rock.

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:55:56 -0500

Circular growth of lychen on rock.

Amazing patterns in dried mud. Wish I could program something...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:07:00 -0500

Amazing patterns in dried mud.

Wish I could program something like this.

Cells from Paeonia suffruticosa gynoecium at 40X magnification....

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:40:34 -0400

Cells from Paeonia suffruticosa gynoecium at 40X magnification. Note the cells undergoing meiosis and the condensed chromosomes they contain.

Quite incredibly, this photo was made using a middle-grade microscope and my HTC smartphone during a Genetics Practical class. Cheers.

been messing around with a spirograph today if anyone is...

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:34:00 -0400

been messing around with a spirograph today

if anyone is interested in the code, drop an ask and i’ll send it over

Photo

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:39:58 -0400

result of a quite simplistic line grower algorithm

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:12:00 -0400

result of a quite simplistic line grower algorithm