May 3, 2010
I came across these photos from Olafur Eliasson‘s latest installation in Beijing, Feelings are facts, over at designboom. I saw a book of his work this winter and liked the more geometric pieces, but love, love, love this one: spaces filled with shifting, saturated colorfog.
(images from designboom)
When I started Rivers, this was a guiding principle. The first sketches were actually volumetric color fields oozing around with objects and networks floating around in them.
As it developed, I kept these color gradients as they materialized onto surfaces. I’m just a sucker for these palettes (and funny how much the ground here looks like Eliasson’s ceiling above :)
November 15, 2009
Rudy Rucker writes a post in search of the Mandelbulb, approaches to visualizing a 3D version of the Mandelbrot set. These gorgeous renderings come from Daniel White’s unravelling with Paul Nylander & David Makin.
Not only the light and shading technique, but the organic surface details are reminiscent of electron micrograph images. These next few come from my favorite EM photography gallery, Eye of Science (see also cool nano photography, Dennis Kunkel, Google images).
(Bonus link 1: Phidelity‘s 3D IFS fractal video for Rena Jones.)
(Bonus link 2: did you know you can run a 3D raytraced Julia Set in near-realtime on your GPU?)
May 17, 2009
Why do I love macro photography? The vast unexplored territory and surprises in an ordinary room, every square inch a landscape; the stillness required when moving a millimeter pushes your subject out of focus; the quiet contemplation inherent in observing at that scale. Nature just looks good up close.
Shooting with my new lens, Tamron’s 90mm, is a joy so far. It’s the (unannounced, unadvertised?) version with an internal motor, so it joins the short list of interesting primes that autofocus on the D40. Nice find. I have photosets up of raindrops in the woods and an art studio, and here are some old favorites.
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