Down The Rabbithole. :)

This, wow!

Impressive artwork.

Dr. Greg Dunn (artist and neuroscientist) and Dr. Brian Edwards (artist and applied physicist) created Self Reflected to elucidate the nature of human consciousness, bridging the connection between the mysterious three pound macroscopic brain and the microscopic behavior of neurons. Self Reflected offers an unprecedented insight of the brain into itself, revealing through a technique called reflective microetching the enormous scope of beautiful and delicately balanced neural choreographies designed to reflect what is occurring in our own minds as we observe this work of art. Self Reflected was created to remind us that the most marvelous machine in the known universe is at the core of our being and is the root of our shared humanity.

h-t New Scientist: Brain images display the beauty and complexity of consciousness

Animal Gaits for Animators by Stephen Cunnane

Oh, so your from Denmark then, or maybe its “Skåne” ? :)

Beautiful! 

Double Arm

This sketch was made by rotating point 1 around a circle, rotating point 2 around point 1, and then joining a line between point 1 and point 2. In the gif point 2 is traveling in the same direction as point 1. Point 1 is traveling at 1x, and point 2 is traveling at 2x. Following the gif are some of my favorite combinations of the periods:

Rotating same direction:

1x and 1x

1x and 2x

1x and 5x

2x and 1x

2x and 5x

5x and 8x

The last image is an array of all the varieties from 1x to 9x for each point.

code: http://p5js.sketchpad.cc/sp/pad/view/jLceHatXid/latest

Wow, it’s somehow really relaxing in this!

Koalas to the Max

Mike Lawler and Dave Radcliffe reminded me of this great goofy site: Koalas to the Max. 4x the fun of your usual dots site.

Greenpeace #clickclean campaign GIFs ‘Wind Turbine Likes’

How beautiful! 

Fibonacci you crazy bastard….

As seen in the solar system (by no ridiculous coincidence), Earth orbits the Sun 8 times in the same period that Venus orbits the Sun 13 times! Drawing a line between Earth & Venus every week results in a spectacular FIVE side symmetry!!

Lets bring up those Fibonacci numbers again: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34..

So if we imagine planets with Fibonacci orbits, do they create Fibonacci symmetries?!

You bet!! Depicted here is a:

2 sided symmetry (5 orbits x 3 orbits)

3 sided symmetry (8 orbits x 5 orbits)

5 sided symmetry (13 orbits x 8 orbits) - like Earth & Venus

8 sided symmetry (21 orbits x 13 orbits)

I wonder if relationships like this exist somewhere in the universe….

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Wow, I just love when science is put to practical use!

Pun on ‘Doppler Shift’.

I love it when people take up Physics concepts and incorporate them into the realms of everyday life. 

The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift) is the change in frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to its source. 

It is commonly observed in sound. When a car is approaching you, the pitch (frequency) of the car increases and when it recedes, the pitch decreases. right? This is the Doppler Shift in action. 

Or to put it in TBBT verbatim - “ Neeeeoooowwwww!”

The Doppler Shift works with light exactly the same as with sound! Just as sound seems higher or lower in pitch as the object is moving towards or away from you, light appears higher in frequency (color) when the object is moving towards you, and lower in frequency/color when moving away from you. The order of colors/frequency of light that we can see is: 

Lower Frequency               Higher Frequency

red - orange - yellow  - green - blue - violet

So a far away object moving quickly away from you would appear more reddish than if it were standing still. The same object moving quickly towards you would appear more bluish than if it were standing still.

PC : Dean Johnson

Welcome to my world of dyslexia... :)

When I'm halfway through a sentence and suddenly realise there is no way out of the grammatical crater I have dug myself

This slide is really something! :)

Video of my talk last week at ICERM, where I discussed a bit of my process for making GIFs. You can also access my slides here.