Posts Tagged ‘ art ’
Redirecting my efforts on this site back towards art. Experimenting with some photoshop tutorials. This one led me to make this: More to come, will try to post something new each day. [ READ MORE ]
That time of year again – New Years Resolutions. But I’m being clever this year. I’m starting on them before New Year’s Day. Exercise. I’ve got to drop about 50 pounds to get back down to 200. So I got up this morning and hopped on the bike. Rode west. Kept going west. Wondered when the [ READ MORE ]
OK, I’ve avoided making serious changes to my layout in favor of actually doing some, you know, posting, but I couldn’t resist redoing the site’s banner. Used this little beauty that I made with Chaoscope: [ READ MORE ]
I’ve recently been playing with Chaoscope, software for rendering 3D strange attractors. Here is an example of a render of a type A polynomial as rendered by Chaoscope: If you are interested in replicating this image, use the following factors: p0=0.271, p1=1.594, p2=1.122. While the images that Chaoscope renders are quite interesting, they are based around an [ READ MORE ]
Ben Fry of Processing fame took the code from classic Atari console cartridges and created several beautiful images showing code and bitmaps, with links drawn from the jump instructions. Here is a small section from Pac-Man: I kind of miss the days when computer games had to fit into such a small memory space. [ READ MORE ]
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to come up with simple cloud systems to use with Blender. This is the result of one test, in which I used the Python scripting interface to create a model using a random walk. In a random walk you start at the origin and select a random direction to [ READ MORE ]