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I'm Ali - 27/f/queer/DC. This is a collection of stuff I find beautiful, strange, hilarious, or otherwise intriguing
Each snowflake is algorithmically generated using some randomness to create infinitely many snowflakes where no two are exactly alike.
The orbits of the moons and planets form a 4-dimensional fractal helix in spacetime.
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
The second GIF is supposed to simulate what the first GIF may look like if viewed with your monitor angled downwards. It is the same as the first except the brightness was increased using Photoshop.
Mathematica code:
Chris Fraser creates dazzling light installations by turning a dark enclosed room into variation on a camera obscura. A precursor to the camera, the camera obscura is “a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved.”
Fraser on his project:
My light installations use the ‘camera obscura’ as a point of departure. They are immersive optical environments, idealized spaces with discreet openings. In translating the outside world into moving fields of light and color, the projections make an argument for unfixed notion of sight.
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
