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Wednesday, 2002 May 1, 23:44 — eye-candy, sciences

light-dark-light in the sky

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

Monday, 2002 April 29, 22:35 — eye-candy, mathematics

Escherism

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

Thursday, 2002 April 18, 22:39 — eye-candy, mathematics

traipse

Ray-Traced Sphere — the old-fashioned way!

Saturday, 2002 April 13, 21:11 — eye-candy, me!me!me!, neep-neep

an impossible soap-film

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.

Sunday, 2002 April 7, 14:47 — eye-candy

wet process

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 soon discovered the resurrected camera was creating curious effects in each image.

Saturday, 2002 March 30, 10:43 — eye-candy, history, neep-neep

short and stout

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 & van Dam, where her face (cropped rather tight) was used to illustrate halftoning; my copy vanished in ~1982, and I now have a later edition without her (*snif*).

Thursday, 2002 March 7, 10:12 — eye-candy, politics

the anti-Sun

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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