Category: Art
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Stacey Whaley, fractals
Stacey Whaley is a painter using the most modern tools available and depending heavily on the mathematical principles of fractals (those graphical figures that tend to repeat themselves at different scales when you zoom in or zoom out). In most cases, when people follow this path, the result is quite predictable and there are a…
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Mechanical elephant
Andrew Chase designed a strange mechanical elephant. It works, it’s articulted. Weird! Source: Baekdal.com.
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Wallpapers: Quality photos
It is always more pleasant to work with a nice wall paper on your PC (or Mac) desktop. Here are two interesting source sof beautiful wallpapers based on photographic quality images: dozens of nature-oriented images (including some cartoons) on UsingMac.com; ligthning and storms (15 images). Downright spectacular.
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Collection of tutorials for Photoshop and GIMP
I collected a long list of tutorials (mostly in English) on my other photo website: Tutorials for Photoshop and The GIMP.
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Surprise! You can find color in B&W photos
This is easy to reduce a color photo to a B&W image (any photo software or any B&W photocopier can do it). But the reverse operation seems difficult at best, impossible in most cases. However, a team of French scientists from the French INRIA (Guillaume Charpiat, Matthias Hofmann et Bernhard Schölkopf) presented recently an algorithm…
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Free shipping on prints, posters!
Some of my best images are available are posters, cards, prints, laminated prints, etc. on RedBubble.com. I like the quality of their service, their prices and the broad support (including good discussion forums about photo). What you’ll like even more is that they reduced the shipping costs to NOTHING for a week. They are celebrating…
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I want to drive on this highway
Presented by Dutch architects NL in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
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A few glasses and bottles
I found a few funny, interesting, or surprising glasses or vases that I wanted to share with you. The first ones are coming with a request to drink responsibly:
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The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala
Awesomely superb, “The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala” is an illustrated book (download in PDF) by James Bateman that you can find in Botanicus.org wbe site of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.