A while ago I became interested in `captured lightning‘ Lichtenberg figures, but without access to megavolt-scale physics gear, I wondered if I could simulate them in software instead. I was reminded of this when I had my JMM art exhibition entry printed on glass, as this would give me something a bit closer to the [...]
Archive of posts filed under the processing category.
The Smoothness Spiral
I’d recently ordered Ben Fry‘s Visualizing Data and started reading it this weekend; just a few pages in I learnt how to import data to processing and a project was born… Since New Orleans I’ve been increasingly interested in mathematical art, and whether in particular I could create something interactive. Here’s what I’ve come up [...]
Christmas Doodling
After watching Vi Hart‘s latest video I found myself thinking about patterns, because I’m the weird sort of number theorist who’s more interested in general structures than specific instances like actual numbers. Because I’m doubly weird, I tend to doodle with computer code rather than pen and paper, so over the christmas break I cobbled [...]
