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Poppies make me happy.
I always enjoy this New York Times blog entries by Maria Kalman.
Inspire Me Thursday's Altered Ancestors, meet my uncle, twice-removed, Wilson Warbler. So I come by my bird-brain mentality honestly.
(I have the opportunity to use another of my series of ten!)
I am totally buying this Hand Shadows Card Set from Cog & Pearl.
I need this - set of 4 reclaimed wooden hangers hand stamped with text and one of these tiny bowls from Palomas Nest's.
It is nice to feel a history with a place. I can do that with many small Texas towns. Looking into the past, a wonderful visual journey at Izismile.
Erik Nitsche Design Archive has a great visual set of Decca Records.
Wonderful abstracts by Thaneeya McArdle and this incredible Art Car. She is delighted at the chance to share everything she knows about art and art-making at Art is fun is for you! Thaneeya's step-by-step abstract painting process. Very generous! Thank you! Go take a look at her wonderful work.
Taking notes can be super delicious, by using the Sliced Bread//Notebook. The first step requires a delicious notebook to hold everything together. It is a 12 slices/notebook set which has been packaged for convenience. Each delicious slice has number on it. (1 to 12) You can use each notebook for the related month. This delicious find via Twig & Thistle.
The first blossom of the bunch.
A guy takes fliers he finds on the street (Lost cat, etc.), redesigns them and then replaces the originals with his better-looking versions. Thanks Evann!
When company signs and logos are taken down, they get demolished. We recycle the characters into individual design objects. We dismantle the letters, clean them up, add a new transformer, LED lights and the power cord, and put them back together. Via Camilla.
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I was completely fascinated with math in high school, binary numeral system was my favorite (here is a binary generated from it's digitalicious), and the process of proving theorems in geometry. I wish go back in time and stick with that subject. Or that I have the computer power to generate some of these algorithms on my computer. Ok, that was all a long time ago, but time does not lessen my love for it all.
So I came across Voronoi: In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a special kind of decomposition of a metric space determined by distances to a specified discrete set of objects in the space, e.g., by a discrete set of points. It is named after Georgy Voronoi, also called a Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, or a Dirichlet tessellation (after Lejeune Dirichlet).
It was this post on Processing Blogs: "Voronoi" that got me going. The re-creation of the butterfly wing! Seen below. I would love to have a print ... off the investigate that.
"The outline of the butterfly wings was made procedurally with Processing (based on the wing form of the African Monarch). I placed magnetic particles all along the contour of the wing, dropped in a few gravity particles and a few hundred magnetic particles and let them settle into place. These particles are then used as the center sites for a Voronoi algorithm to create the vein-like structure that spreads through the form.
These Voronoi wings are but a sampling of the many different types of algorithms that are being explored to create a nice variety of wing forms. I will be posting more about it once the installation is complete and hope to have better documentation of the piece."
Voronoitom
Geometry Junkyard
MATSYS has a good explanation: Voronoi Morphologies, "Morphologies is the latest development in an ongoing area of research into cellular aggregate structures. The voronoi algorithm is used in a wide range of fields including satellite navigation, animal habitat mapping, and urban planning as it can easily adapt to local contingent conditions."
I adore the work of Val Britton, structured chaos.
