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Category Archives: Art
Art Science150,000 Botanical and Animal Illustrations Available for Free Download from Biodiversity Heritage Library
January 31, 2020 – 7:54 pm
Never does Nature
March 23, 2018 – 4:05 pm
An intro to Pen Plotters
March 2, 2018 – 12:00 am
I’ve been fascinated with pen plotters for a long time now and I’ve owned several of them – but for some reason never posted any of my explorations or findings online. Until now, at least. You might wonder what’s so special about pen plotters? Well, let me tell you. Pen plotters are friendly robots
Source: An intro to Pen Plotters — Hej.
Night Timelapse of the Milky Way from an Airplane Cockpit
April 28, 2017 – 2:47 pm
Just as the bright city lights are vanishing behind us, the Milky Way starts to become clearly visible up ahead. Its now us, pacing at almost the speed of sound along the invisible highway and the pitch-black night sky above this surreal landscape. Ahead of us are another eight hours flight time, but we already stopped counting the shooting stars. And we got already to a few hundred.
Read the full article on Beyond Clouds.
A Mind is Born
April 23, 2017 – 10:22 am
In 256 bytes, Linus Åkesson has produced not only an incredible set of visuals, modulating and morphing sierpinsky gaskets, but a beautiful, driving, piece of music.
He goes into depth about how it was made. The code can be seen below, in all its inscrutable wonder:
Chill Music For a Sunday Morning
February 21, 2016 – 1:59 pm
Via: Metafilter, Via: Other People
Via: Grandbrothers, a piano duet from Dusseldorf. Found along the way.
Solar System Mandala
February 4, 2016 – 1:48 am
8 Earth years are roughly equal to 13 Venus years, meaning the two planets approximately trace out this pattern with 5-fold symmetry as they orbit the Sun.
Via: iBleeedorange @ Reddit
Offscreen Colonies
April 17, 2015 – 5:21 pm
Offscreen Colonies is a 64k intro from Hungarian multimedia artists, Conspiracy.
To put it into perspective, the program that renders the video in that youtube link is 35 times smaller than any of the images captured from that program listed below.
Think about that. (also Blade Runner!)
Analog Memory Desk
March 11, 2015 – 1:51 pm
Beer Stein Of Science
February 17, 2015 – 2:18 pm
So you like cold drinks, especially in the heat of the summer. You also like large drinks, however, they come at a cost: unless you can drink a superhuman quantity of liquid in a relatively short period of time, your beverage is gonna get warm. This is unacceptable. Enter the “Stein Of Science“. A full metal jacket around a cryostatic dewar with a hefty steel handle.
You know you want one.
Hütte Hut
February 3, 2015 – 12:57 pm
Simple, small, wooden, exposed frame, what’s not to love?
Hütte Hut.
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