Wormhole

Technicolor Golden Mean

Swirling Vortex

Trippy Slithering Black Eye

Trippy black eyeball: an interactive animation written in processing-JS for html5.

the mandlebulb will explode your brain

Check out the huge heap of awesome that is the mandlebulb or 3d mandlebrot set.  Read the whole story over here at this very strange skytopia project page.   It seems to have been the brainchild and 20 year quest of Rudy Rucker, which he writes about over on his blog, and also over here at [...]

Trees Growing Branches

An animated tribute to the math of self-referencing growth. Cultivate your own wild forest. Play with the ways that trees grow branches. Written in processingJS for HTML5.

martian landscapes & the mysterium tremendum

Just take a look at these amazing photos that came back from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which has been orbiting and photographing mars since 2006 at resolutions of an inch a pixel. They look so organic to me, so suspiciously similar to the living processes that are at play all around us here on the [...]

Something Like Vines

Gold and yellow colored vines grow horizontally. They progress based on sign waves

Processing & the man and the ox transcended

Just discovered this incredible java-based open source flash-like product called processing.  Very simple to work with and excellent if you are trying to make art-like output for printing.  Lets you render at very large scale and output to very large images. Here’s a digital take on the 8th painting in the ox herding series. It [...]

Your IPO: The real reason facebook is adding usernames

Its been interesting to read reactions around the blogosphere on facebook’s announcement of their adding usernames and the inevitable land grab that will begin tomorrow night when the system goes live. Chris Messina thinks its all about facebook trying to own your digital identity, and he has an interesting post along those lines over on [...]