Jean-Paul Sartre and his existentialist kitty.
The core of our galaxy, seen in infrared light, and inverted. The black mass in the center is the location of Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy, which has the mass of 4 million suns.
Tipper - Dead Soon
All around beautiful!! seriously, this is a must watch video for the eyes, and great listen for the ears!! -
via crystalpope
A psychotropia of visual transmutations. Excellent Tipper track from his most recent LP release, Broken Soul Jamboree.
Smoke visualization in a wind tunnel reveals the airflow over a flying locust. Researchers are unraveling the aerodynamics of insect flight in order to produce better Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) and miniature flying robots. #
The talented Victor M. Aleman has created this beautiful “hammock-chair” for lovers. Shaped like a hearth, with an intertwining effect, to create the perfect setting (…or sitting).
He is previously known for making the Loopita
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from metanom: The Formula (by subBlue)
“The guy behind this video gave a presentation at Tech Meetup last night about his website fractal.io.”
A musical chord can be represented as a point in an orbifold. (An orbifold is a quotient manifold.)
Line segments join notes of one chord to those of another. Composers in a wide range of styles have exploited the (non-Euclidean)…
The Mountain | by Terje Sorgjerd
Mind-blowingly beautiful. Do not miss this.
A few words from Terje:
“This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide.
Spain´s highest mountain @(3715m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories.
The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know El Teide. I have to say this was one of the most exhausting trips I have done. There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie, but I am still not 100% used to carrying around so much gear required for time-lapse movies.
A large sandstorm hit the Sahara Desert on the 9th April (bit.ly/g3tsDW) and at approx 3am in the night the sandstorm hit me, making it nearly impossible to see the sky with my own eyes.
Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was ruined. To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. The Milky Way was shining through the clouds, making the stars sparkle in an interesting way. So if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32.”<3 to @eglinski for making my day with this find.
So much fun, try this out! You’ll be mesmerized.
“Otomata is a generative sequencer. It employs a cellular automaton type logic I’ve devised to produce sound events.
Each alive cell has 4 states: Up, right, down, left. at each cycle, the cells move themselves in the direction of their internal states. If any cell encounters a wall, it triggers a pitched sound whose frequency is determined by the xy position of collision, and the cell reverses its direction. If a cell encounters another cell on its way, it turns itself clockwise.
This set of rules produces chaotic results in some settings, therefore you can end up with never repeating, gradually evolving sequences. Go add some cells, change their orientation by clicking on them, and press play, experiment, have fun.
If you encounter something you like, just press “Copy Piece Link” and save it somewhere, or better, share it!”
Created by Earslap. Via @DoubleDigitCat
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Simple yet hypnotic. Interesting, adding one arbitrarily placed cell coaxes a surprisingly complex melody into form.
A different recipe here, and possibly my favorite tinkering, an infinitely evolving soundscape — with an intensified strumming variety.
Touch Wood
Japanese agency Drill Inc set up a domino effect wooden xylophone in the forests of Kyushu, Japan to promote NNT Docomo’s new Touch Wood phone.
Mesonic fabric
In MF BIOTHING explored in-between algorithmic states by trans-coding 3 different algorithms. Electro-Magnetic Field developed through Biothing’s custom written plug-in for Rhino was initially distributed in order to develop structural trajectories for the roof condition. Resonating pattern was imprinted into the ground creating emitters for the second algorithmic logic _ radial wave interference pattern that formed global geography of the field. Finally, class 4 Cellular Automata was used to re-process wave data by imprinting micro-articulation of the ground. Zooming in and out of this field revels drifts in the character of the pattern. This effect is accelerated in the behavior of the CA pattern which drifts between distinct characters of rigid geometrical states and more organic states.
via Biothing
the calabi-yau manifold: a graphical representation of a higher dimensional surface. these forms are often utilised in modelling the difficult multi-dimensional physical attributes of quantum mechanics (like super string theory)
Fancy owning something like this? To be in with a chance visit this link……
Anish Kapoor
Human spirography, Tony Orrico makes these stunning drawings for 4 hours sometimes to make one large piece. I think they are just an amazingly beautiful feat of patience.
