Did you know? You can use anvaka’s peak map tool on other celestial bodies. Here are Mars and Luna.
An easter egg in Roots of Knowledge
One of the most unexpected and beautiful things you will find in Orem, Utah is a stained glass window at the library of Utah Valley University. I love it when an ancient medium is used in a novel way and this is certainly the case for “Roots of Knowledge: A Window into the History of …
On the cosmic highway to the moon.
(Chen – Lee Attractor. More gelly rolls on black paper)
Mask wearing ethics on hiking trails.
~ a covid&d alignment chart
Orbits of Mercury, Venus, Mars & Jupiter (not to scale).
Computed with PyEphem as they would appear from Earth – north ecliptic pole.
Gelly rolls on rugged black paper with axidraw.
Sensawunda!
Two perpendicular thoughts: 1) I am amazed how easy it still is for a large program (like Blender or Firefox) to fail to compile on a modern, common distro. A large list of dependencies greatly increases the chances of compile-time mishaps and makes the whole process resemble surgery. 2) I am amazed at how easy …
A very Escherian portrait of john_fisherman. Always a pleasure to be looking through the man.
Still one of my favorite otherworldly videos: Huygens descent onto Titan, by Erich Karkoschka.
I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.
Axidraw was made for this
“Ode to the Turtle”. Synthesized handwriting plotted by axidraw. Text by Seymour Papert. So many of us started programming with Logo Language…
