Category Archives: eye-candy

light-dark-light in the sky

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 01 by Anton

One of my favorites from Astronomy Picture of the Day: time exposure of a lunar eclipse.

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Escherism

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Tessellating Animations, some quite witty. (Cited by Plokta and BoingBoing)

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traipse

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 18 by Anton

Ray-Traced Sphere — the old-fashioned way!

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an impossible soap-film

Posted on Saturday, 2002 April 13 by Anton

Did a spot of programming today: a crude script to translate Surface Evolver output into PoV-Ray input. Took me maybe an hour. Python r00lz.

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wet process

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 07 by Anton

My correspondent calls it “Watermarking images in a whole new way”: After the accident, Eaves spent weeks broiling, baking and blow-drying the camera . . . but it still sloshed. So he decided to see what a soggy Nikon could do, and … Continue reading →

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short and stout

Posted on Saturday, 2002 March 30 by Anton

Steve Baker tells the tale of the Utah Teapot. (Found through another Steve’s links.) Links in turn to the Stanford Bunny. And what collection of digital models would be complete without Lena Sjööblom? I first saw her in Foley & … Continue reading →

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the anti-Sun

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 07 by Anton

The Blogs of War suggests that there’s room in the market for a left-wing rag featuring n*ked l*dies. What should it be called? Playboy?

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