tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14890174872324729762024-03-07T04:09:23.130-08:00An Ocean Of Knowledge An Inch DeepA blog detailing the hobbies of the author. Hobbies include photography (focusing on panoramic photography), woodworking (including building a wooden geared orrery and clocks in the future), and papercrafting. The author also likes fractals and fractals are featured in some of his artworks.Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-47223885545461042892011-07-05T19:33:00.000-07:002011-07-05T19:48:06.583-07:00Platonic and Archimedean Solids from Coins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A couple of weeks ago, I suddenly had the idea to make the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid">Platonic solid</a>s out of pennies. I'd made them before out of paper in several variations, and had seen them made out of many different materials, but I hadn't seen them made from coins. I also quickly thought of making the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_solid">Archimedean solids</a> from 2 or more types of coins and discovered that the ratio of diameters between pennies and quarters is perfect for making a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_icosahedron">truncated icosahedron</a> which is the design most often used for a soccer ball. The ratios between dimes and half-dollars would allow you to make any polyhedron composed of just triangles and squares of which there are 3 among the Archimedean solids but I haven't attempted these yet. Once I have made these, I will have exhausted the list that can be made by only using US coins.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The building process was harder than I though. I soldered them together using folded paper nets to set the angles. As the number of coins increases, the amount of mass makes it difficult to heat the coins up enough to get pretty bonds between the coins. Also heating the coins to the proper temperature was also causing some discoloration. Still, while not perfectly pretty, the bonds are quite strong and I now use them instead of a coin to make all of my random decisions. The cube feels the best for this as it is the shape of the common die.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are some pictures. Click on them for higher resolution versions.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">All 5 platonic solids. I call this picture Fiddy Cent for the obvious reason.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">The Regular Tetrahedron (4 sides)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Regular Hexahedron or Cube (6 sides)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Regular Octahedron (8 sides)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECrfrDrRLuxj3I49fbH_4z46crsYsIoquiUBGLS3Eg_PZP079FMmNZuneTAOcmTnP864ssJkJEw9jTLlKzdopvrPjPJSEIc6yXb2wiiXbD3MTKF1wlt7N6Ai9c93stKczn5_iyfeR1Ls/s1600/pennycube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">The Regular Dodecaheron (12 Sides)</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">The Regular Icosahedron (20 Sides)</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Notice the Gaps in the above picture. Now if you take those pennies and replace them with quarters the gaps are almost the exact size of pennies. That's what I did to make the object below.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Truncated Icosahedron. 32 Sides. 20 Quarters and 12 Pennies. <br />
That's why I call this Five Dollars and Twelve Cents.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">All 6 of them together.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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The images of the templates at the very bottom of this post, obtained from the original article, are high enough resolution to make about a 10 inch globe on standard paper if you click on the pictures and download the higher resolution version. I used thick cardstock, and a tacky glue to construct mine. All you have to do is glue Tab A to Tab A, Tab B to Tab B, Tab C to Tab C...<br />
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Here's a picture of the one I built:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's Mr. Bucky Fuller himself:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here are some pictures that appeared in Life Magazine 3 weeks later as pictures to the editors:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Finally the templates:<br />
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</div>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-21425564352171159062011-04-10T09:20:00.001-07:002011-04-10T10:43:22.335-07:00Standardized Testing And Reporting<span class="Apple-style-span" >It's the middle of April and this next week all students at <a href="http://www.uprep.net/">University Preparatory School</a>, where I teach, will be taking the California standardized tests. So I decided to design and build a sculpture that I'm calling "Standardized Testing And Reporting" or "STAR", which is what the California testing program is named. The sculpture is made up of 80 pencils and is held together with a variety of glues.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNDwFQh_FN35HGozCR5MWWwNSgJn9LoRyK2LTxaUsUNILItHacMMU7mfpXDm1ErP72mVGNJYvo6lGx6kljoO0GI16luS3Hx9tbpRG8KVezxzcw7dt0wYGlKfn53FS74ZzkU7aUfySvsY/s1600/P1080985playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNDwFQh_FN35HGozCR5MWWwNSgJn9LoRyK2LTxaUsUNILItHacMMU7mfpXDm1ErP72mVGNJYvo6lGx6kljoO0GI16luS3Hx9tbpRG8KVezxzcw7dt0wYGlKfn53FS74ZzkU7aUfySvsY/s400/P1080985playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593993749403044386" style="cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 400px; " /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >From the side:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIg4WImW3YvL5qsq2cb4J9MBOVZH_v8ycsg4wT0ClSetzukulnhPU3pOVnKB2MsVZnIBF91MBksbLU_T216_2tRxDF3nafy0wXi7h2jRIww_7sGOYcaWMvHvXgCjY3XkawC2pUk8PYKxo/s1600/P1080986playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIg4WImW3YvL5qsq2cb4J9MBOVZH_v8ycsg4wT0ClSetzukulnhPU3pOVnKB2MsVZnIBF91MBksbLU_T216_2tRxDF3nafy0wXi7h2jRIww_7sGOYcaWMvHvXgCjY3XkawC2pUk8PYKxo/s400/P1080986playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593993769574506130" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px; " /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br />Two of the five identical pieces it is made from:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipT5-99EerU0uu601j7SzB9yqbrk9EwYVcDyRLnhvT75WcliAf-0g9_CrJqi5oY4LalLYKfmjeVsoqbaGZKwldAaJ_dVeJ_QFlIArZ-g12_RXy0PgbY1Ct7cdjRSJ_aENh-lT6sW5N7dE/s1600/P1080967.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipT5-99EerU0uu601j7SzB9yqbrk9EwYVcDyRLnhvT75WcliAf-0g9_CrJqi5oY4LalLYKfmjeVsoqbaGZKwldAaJ_dVeJ_QFlIArZ-g12_RXy0PgbY1Ct7cdjRSJ_aENh-lT6sW5N7dE/s400/P1080967.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593993770784684290" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >The sculpture is made from 5 pieces, each of which is part of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraboloid">hyperbolic paraboloid</a> embedded in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron">regular tetrahedron</a>. This works because the dihedral angle (angle between faces) of a tetrahedron is 70.5 degrees which when multiplied by 5 (the number of pieces) very nearly results in 360 degrees.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >The first inspiration for this work was <a href="http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/sculpture.html">George Hart's</a> 72 Pencils. This gave me the idea for using Pencils. Here's my recreation of that work:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyEvknrmRX69-2ThCR9wxFXA3Ya0fvhNYBJyQ6Pt84zQVsJZufju_Sc7mT-hcw_HU3nme1lOSONjbtvY1CqmieQxCqEdsHqNkgfQarNsUOhNZ__XnRiylcBJHOak33neFmjCgtclldnVo/s1600/P1080853playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyEvknrmRX69-2ThCR9wxFXA3Ya0fvhNYBJyQ6Pt84zQVsJZufju_Sc7mT-hcw_HU3nme1lOSONjbtvY1CqmieQxCqEdsHqNkgfQarNsUOhNZ__XnRiylcBJHOak33neFmjCgtclldnVo/s400/P1080853playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594000217658872178" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 391px; " /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyEvknrmRX69-2ThCR9wxFXA3Ya0fvhNYBJyQ6Pt84zQVsJZufju_Sc7mT-hcw_HU3nme1lOSONjbtvY1CqmieQxCqEdsHqNkgfQarNsUOhNZ__XnRiylcBJHOak33neFmjCgtclldnVo/s1600/P1080853playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br />The second was <span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/">Carlo H. Séquin</a>'s Ribbed Hemicube. This brought the realization that you could easily embed hyperbolic paraboloids into regular tetrahedra. Here's my recreation of that work:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS-kcNbnm60EJwF6XTce9HplAHjJHw5RFwghoHX_zLXVHzJQSq1SfVSsc3Hz7e556Nt1Jn9MzBKLGBak6XzkXTvfU_UgDIUApZO39DuYKKQY98t_4WugRT0znUOkOCSDa5O-l9nNfMvvU/s1600/P1080862playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS-kcNbnm60EJwF6XTce9HplAHjJHw5RFwghoHX_zLXVHzJQSq1SfVSsc3Hz7e556Nt1Jn9MzBKLGBak6XzkXTvfU_UgDIUApZO39DuYKKQY98t_4WugRT0znUOkOCSDa5O-l9nNfMvvU/s400/P1080862playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594003272013201442" style="cursor: pointer; width: 366px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span">The third was </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://erikdemaine.org/">Erik Demaine</a>'s<b> </b>Polyhedra built from Hypars (Sections of Hyperbolic Paraboloids). This inspired me to create a full polyhedral structure from sections. (Note: While this looks nearly identical to what I built there are major advantages to working with these folded paper structures. You can make the angles most anything you want. For instance a 6 pointed star would work just as easily) I haven't actually completed one of his works. I'm working on it but I'm a slow folder. Here's a picture from his site:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GRvCsj9GMji0ICBmyMsnC-z5kSQ-KUNkPEQky5y6JXMCAqisMmH1GbghMfz_OZsOJO-HPqO0rK6L9kmI-Rbj78rkjZs-Sw5aBn02F2kytu_9WH-Jk69l23udGVYr2_vFpB4NcrZhELQ/s1600/5star_50.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GRvCsj9GMji0ICBmyMsnC-z5kSQ-KUNkPEQky5y6JXMCAqisMmH1GbghMfz_OZsOJO-HPqO0rK6L9kmI-Rbj78rkjZs-Sw5aBn02F2kytu_9WH-Jk69l23udGVYr2_vFpB4NcrZhELQ/s400/5star_50.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594003276791916210" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 374px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Here's a few pictures from the build process:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Marking up the pencils so they can be glued in the proper positions:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLsyOF2nCDAA3WVFwjErEYR_Ua2kFtJ_6VKQAa7yGAjaDh9wNrgUi_9X3NmRE3qVtnsX5WZyI_eMEWNqaksm2uscofYdpgGjQ9mF2XkUa7AT67dFpqvaC7yajzRrU8_MGBgYjlv8RUE7g/s1600/P1080917playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLsyOF2nCDAA3WVFwjErEYR_Ua2kFtJ_6VKQAa7yGAjaDh9wNrgUi_9X3NmRE3qVtnsX5WZyI_eMEWNqaksm2uscofYdpgGjQ9mF2XkUa7AT67dFpqvaC7yajzRrU8_MGBgYjlv8RUE7g/s400/P1080917playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594007616772206546" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Getting the Tetrahedral frame together:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzWqwJ2FAtSbZdPDm5qStB4JeAoxqm372tI7U1Mu4e5DC-ejH-g-cq9s_IlhUOrK0LumHFIQJTPWczSCGRqXManiH3vmZqkfRSg154PRTrfrf52Z0MGfBspKTfNLBwsZVWTzMbMLVARw/s1600/P1080919playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzWqwJ2FAtSbZdPDm5qStB4JeAoxqm372tI7U1Mu4e5DC-ejH-g-cq9s_IlhUOrK0LumHFIQJTPWczSCGRqXManiH3vmZqkfRSg154PRTrfrf52Z0MGfBspKTfNLBwsZVWTzMbMLVARw/s400/P1080919playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594007611906479346" style="cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >The completed tetrahedral frame (The front pencil will be removed):</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7kXarNT7hrorhrW7TTV4xeXfV-wtBdksw2FaVaM_rQdNwwOWYOBSrl-Hqc85kMywF-DvN8jviy1tjP-IbI8s6ienrbQOTGw3FHmiyfRH3O50qXfqzAyiNPtBX-o8_F5n2Hk2_BWZnzhk/s1600/P1080960playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7kXarNT7hrorhrW7TTV4xeXfV-wtBdksw2FaVaM_rQdNwwOWYOBSrl-Hqc85kMywF-DvN8jviy1tjP-IbI8s6ienrbQOTGw3FHmiyfRH3O50qXfqzAyiNPtBX-o8_F5n2Hk2_BWZnzhk/s400/P1080960playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594009700348475682" style="cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Starting the hyperbolic paraboloid by connecting pencils across the marks:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFVq3DCHNZE8Thyphenhyphen5MkTR_RIL2m1YrIq-sA_cRNtic0JiAnbwelPSNABxSL2F3BI2QBsptWLn6MehRP9Pni7OnicapqCFvWasUxR1QqvoJgMEm2NxkXWKZz_balAvJMOs1nSQXKHgTSQD4/s1600/P1080922playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFVq3DCHNZE8Thyphenhyphen5MkTR_RIL2m1YrIq-sA_cRNtic0JiAnbwelPSNABxSL2F3BI2QBsptWLn6MehRP9Pni7OnicapqCFvWasUxR1QqvoJgMEm2NxkXWKZz_balAvJMOs1nSQXKHgTSQD4/s400/P1080922playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594007597800193682" style="cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >One done! (With overlap):</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Q1GTwQuMJigX_OuUBcLdMi0nCwgzN6jpDWhxdF_VhtvBXMMMESDSg3YDK8se833QxZ22S5NQIsBJMivSmo6zGe6PH1_IKRPTeJgLxhMRCQQ2_4p9A6UV9Zyk8v9p076G2kuhqmDBcnk/s1600/P1080912playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Q1GTwQuMJigX_OuUBcLdMi0nCwgzN6jpDWhxdF_VhtvBXMMMESDSg3YDK8se833QxZ22S5NQIsBJMivSmo6zGe6PH1_IKRPTeJgLxhMRCQQ2_4p9A6UV9Zyk8v9p076G2kuhqmDBcnk/s400/P1080912playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593993781504559954" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >From the side:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYKPy657ggsbb64AxEAG48TjXfHMkYuqtngV2OLXyUqM1qvIU3Cr_lUJ-Bx8tQHL6AZ_q-YNnjvrx5H4nJ2QO1zPl38GvycRNJ8Qn3t_pXK2LCdJDljI_sYoF6-AnQezcWsFbH3oF3WY/s1600/P1080914playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYKPy657ggsbb64AxEAG48TjXfHMkYuqtngV2OLXyUqM1qvIU3Cr_lUJ-Bx8tQHL6AZ_q-YNnjvrx5H4nJ2QO1zPl38GvycRNJ8Qn3t_pXK2LCdJDljI_sYoF6-AnQezcWsFbH3oF3WY/s400/P1080914playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594007593857662258" style="cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Three together (testing the fit)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfy2XHn1pqO24L1LEI-3wr8L5fBy6SUNeVWm1fEbg-rJU2hI6x3Owvo3W4VAlmPgH8WGunNJSYJ21IXfs5QMSZLNJQ-kxLlhZ8Ejg1RrVN6qkIl0IYu7MgR9rXU6s5grmdqhclAi8beKg/s1600/3star2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfy2XHn1pqO24L1LEI-3wr8L5fBy6SUNeVWm1fEbg-rJU2hI6x3Owvo3W4VAlmPgH8WGunNJSYJ21IXfs5QMSZLNJQ-kxLlhZ8Ejg1RrVN6qkIl0IYu7MgR9rXU6s5grmdqhclAi8beKg/s400/3star2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593993764324624818" style="cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Five together (Still need to trim off the extra length of the pencils):</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBbbgKwMPm3y5CUB2A3m_ffG7i8nc_oZHgc5t759EkBLL5oveIsVXM_E6NtohfEbfgYcuVBw6SlRchs1lCtn7YqOUPB7c5JObrcLKDtMWO6w4U5jjDlQ6jypUGZQMJB-lk141GZatWOE/s1600/P1080964playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBbbgKwMPm3y5CUB2A3m_ffG7i8nc_oZHgc5t759EkBLL5oveIsVXM_E6NtohfEbfgYcuVBw6SlRchs1lCtn7YqOUPB7c5JObrcLKDtMWO6w4U5jjDlQ6jypUGZQMJB-lk141GZatWOE/s400/P1080964playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594007605370535058" style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >After trimming:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipT5-99EerU0uu601j7SzB9yqbrk9EwYVcDyRLnhvT75WcliAf-0g9_CrJqi5oY4LalLYKfmjeVsoqbaGZKwldAaJ_dVeJ_QFlIArZ-g12_RXy0PgbY1Ct7cdjRSJ_aENh-lT6sW5N7dE/s1600/P1080967.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipT5-99EerU0uu601j7SzB9yqbrk9EwYVcDyRLnhvT75WcliAf-0g9_CrJqi5oY4LalLYKfmjeVsoqbaGZKwldAaJ_dVeJ_QFlIArZ-g12_RXy0PgbY1Ct7cdjRSJ_aENh-lT6sW5N7dE/s400/P1080967.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593993770784684290" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >The completed sculpture:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNDwFQh_FN35HGozCR5MWWwNSgJn9LoRyK2LTxaUsUNILItHacMMU7mfpXDm1ErP72mVGNJYvo6lGx6kljoO0GI16luS3Hx9tbpRG8KVezxzcw7dt0wYGlKfn53FS74ZzkU7aUfySvsY/s1600/P1080985playing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNDwFQh_FN35HGozCR5MWWwNSgJn9LoRyK2LTxaUsUNILItHacMMU7mfpXDm1ErP72mVGNJYvo6lGx6kljoO0GI16luS3Hx9tbpRG8KVezxzcw7dt0wYGlKfn53FS74ZzkU7aUfySvsY/s400/P1080985playing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593993749403044386" style="cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-36316699905869595542011-01-30T11:48:00.000-08:002011-01-30T12:12:08.264-08:00Epic "Stop Motion" Steady Cam ShotYou must watch this video! Then read the short story below. It looks really good if you click on the full screen icon right underneath the video between the HD symbol (already on) and the Vimeo logo.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/19308687?color=f15c22" width="400" frameborder="0" height="225"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/19308687">Nice Shot!</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5872834">Blownapart Studios</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br />Last weekend, I went down to Sacramento California to help out my brother Michael Poole and cousin Steve Bailey who are the creative forces behind <a href="http://www.blownapartstudios.com/">Blown Apart Studios</a> with a video shoot which was a lot of fun. They are putting together a Still Photography Tutorial DVD called Lighting Boot Camp with <a href="http://www.lookpw.com/">Mark Behrens</a>. We were filming at Elk's Tower with a bunch of models and guns at a workshop called guns, guts and glory. I helped them shoot a special feature for the DVD which was a short action based movie which hopefully I can share soon once the editing is finished.<br /><br />This was a shot that Steve made towards the end of the workshop. I'm going to quote their story on this shot here:<br /><br />This is a single take steadicam shot during a photographic workshop at the Elk's Tower in Sacramento. The workshop put on by Mark Behrens and LookPW<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> titled "Gun's Gut's and Glory" featured 22 photographers and 20 models. This shot actually came together completely unplanned, when most of the photographers and models had gathered into one room. It started out as a "wouldn't it be cool" and turned into an "alright everybody, listen up" in about 30 seconds. It took about 5 minutes to bring everyone up to speed, place people around the room, and figure out a rough path. The original shot is a little over two minutes long. The only editing we did was "speed ramping" which is basically just speeding up and slowing down the footage. It's obviously really hard to get 40 people to hold still for that long, so a lot of the sped up sections hide some of the movement. The other sped up and slowed down parts were just to emphasize it's epic awesomeness. Thanks to everyone who made this possible!<br /><br />For more information visit: <a href="http://www.blownapartstudios.com/">http://www.blownapartstudios.com/</a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-34466581016260589242011-01-01T16:35:00.000-08:002011-01-01T17:16:51.329-08:00MC Escher Jigsaw Puzzle and Origamic Architecture ReconstructionI've been a big fan of M.C. Escher's Art since I was a little kid. His impossible figures drawings are mindblowing and his tesselations are fantastic. In the last couple of months, I've actually done a couple of projects that involve his work.<br /><br />The first I did on Thanksgiving break. I had become very interested in making jigsaw puzzles on my scroll saw and after doing a couple of interesting puzzles that I made by printing pictures I found online and gluing them to the piece to be cut, I decided that Escher's tesselations would make fantastic puzzles. The one I settled on making is called Mosaic II and is a very interesting piece that is made from 40 different animals that fit perfectly together. It is colored in such a way that dark pieces and light pieces only touch the other at "corners." For my version this isn't quite true because I left out the tongue of the snake because I didn't want it to be easy to break. It's a fun puzzle that takes people between a half hour and an hour if they have no prior knowledge of what the picture looks like.<br /><br />The original Escher:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmvkgKMkdAFk-8B89k5CXSGHYqcbdXi_9OvGSLU-5OZI1D_EtWdvLT6wGQa0IIowR6CmD2cXxmsoK9dLlQBXcqh38uPOev0jgYORQ7sEeWO6sQXI_ZOjYQOa0uoEQMrvmXl8krXngvoA/s1600/mosaic2original.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmvkgKMkdAFk-8B89k5CXSGHYqcbdXi_9OvGSLU-5OZI1D_EtWdvLT6wGQa0IIowR6CmD2cXxmsoK9dLlQBXcqh38uPOev0jgYORQ7sEeWO6sQXI_ZOjYQOa0uoEQMrvmXl8krXngvoA/s400/mosaic2original.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557386797393763026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Initial outline cut on my scroll saw (The whole piece is about the size of a 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper):<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAQ4xfQl-Q3ceUY7yM4mIacsL5gBzrOyDe6x4tjg3fIlbIxHRebgRTWbWClen0z22luGSm3z_Rpv2-16_8RE_y2uFNyuvaMxW7ONQUOYosoB7vSHiIUTjja85Nh5dLWwDTGFBUMQTOUc/s1600/CIMG3675playing.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAQ4xfQl-Q3ceUY7yM4mIacsL5gBzrOyDe6x4tjg3fIlbIxHRebgRTWbWClen0z22luGSm3z_Rpv2-16_8RE_y2uFNyuvaMxW7ONQUOYosoB7vSHiIUTjja85Nh5dLWwDTGFBUMQTOUc/s400/CIMG3675playing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557385031502684274" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Well I've never tried wood burning before...but hey it looks like fun. I used wood burning tips on my soldering iron.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTB1WTqQsXXPO5bi_zkz9f6Zftm3lcWA3VWT7d5xwqMQFMII0gsjjRac6LM26bCZA0QTxV-NhbsF6bKxqgFgVV7ha5zl5FD-7EL1wKPsMv80lTYicDD0nKWAypR5uvvD5YLKXUTPiUiU/s1600/CIMG3678playing.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTB1WTqQsXXPO5bi_zkz9f6Zftm3lcWA3VWT7d5xwqMQFMII0gsjjRac6LM26bCZA0QTxV-NhbsF6bKxqgFgVV7ha5zl5FD-7EL1wKPsMv80lTYicDD0nKWAypR5uvvD5YLKXUTPiUiU/s400/CIMG3678playing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557386805944804898" border="0" /></a><br /><br />A few hours later!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhikP4Pm7qlVV05e1IZF5uNDxI_teJMFh6S1rxr-76-Mjeu2y24S14FFqRR8dvGjC0_0Oe1sxbxoVdcQBMttmlE7J94tuGXmSJvZt2VmX0VJM2fNao1HO_X_qFRvvm0P2-rUuixfUdv9WE/s1600/CIMG3681playing.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhikP4Pm7qlVV05e1IZF5uNDxI_teJMFh6S1rxr-76-Mjeu2y24S14FFqRR8dvGjC0_0Oe1sxbxoVdcQBMttmlE7J94tuGXmSJvZt2VmX0VJM2fNao1HO_X_qFRvvm0P2-rUuixfUdv9WE/s400/CIMG3681playing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557386811198125826" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Even later....Wood burning is finished!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUJ9c-ZU-72keRDMcCKJWU8fl8eYW3MA4ZJqyBfRk1K2y9hDYg0GqczhYeOt5bRzNSqGJ7u32ChLWTjS2PTwzQPL1lIE2sdxuocBjooEJY_u86RJak6Stl0sFEDMyNLLiqP1psX8NHhq4/s1600/CIMG3682playing.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUJ9c-ZU-72keRDMcCKJWU8fl8eYW3MA4ZJqyBfRk1K2y9hDYg0GqczhYeOt5bRzNSqGJ7u32ChLWTjS2PTwzQPL1lIE2sdxuocBjooEJY_u86RJak6Stl0sFEDMyNLLiqP1psX8NHhq4/s400/CIMG3682playing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557386817809906290" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />The Finished Product after about sanding, staining, and coating with polyeurethane. The total project was about 10 hours worth of work:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvtMUxOGd3bncEPaUhFcTFJxQLXHaon_mfz97Ebd7IW4fxOMLy1Qt9tMdzDuiUC6Rxy6JiEjjdXOzh4bPfOmn6c0TXPMITp2prtU9MESbyMfHVdfJaF02VbOtSDyp7iHK1DY0guTFRUkw/s1600/CIMG3683playing.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvtMUxOGd3bncEPaUhFcTFJxQLXHaon_mfz97Ebd7IW4fxOMLy1Qt9tMdzDuiUC6Rxy6JiEjjdXOzh4bPfOmn6c0TXPMITp2prtU9MESbyMfHVdfJaF02VbOtSDyp7iHK1DY0guTFRUkw/s400/CIMG3683playing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557385462961880626" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The second project I did in the morning of one of my days off during Christmas break. It's a paper version of Escher's Relativity that is cut and folded out of one piece of paper and stays together using only tabs and no glue. The technique is called <a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=25657,27026,27031,27032,27035,27036,27042&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=origamic+architecture&cp=2&qe=b3I&qesig=q2jIxBwwDqbM-TwUltmE_g&pkc=AFgZ2tkVATYNT6u5vGh4OQjXahsCMS61l1QKsI-KRI7ciHSm9KA215ZFVqDj1Z1zNoX0sOH4z5qAJrnvEg_dTWZR0EfZwZqlSg&pf=p&sclient=psy&safe=off&site=&source=hp&aq=0p&aqi=&aql=&oq=or&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=9bef8cda26d1a6ec">Origamic Architecture</a> and at some point I will probably put up a post on all the different pieces I've copied using this technique. I found the diagram for Relativity on a flikr and you can download it <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/crackpotcreative/2714678437/">here</a>. Note: my version is mirrored from both what the diagram suggests and the original Escher piece. I "decided" to fold it the other direction.<br /><br />The original Escher drawing:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-OTbHZckwBvssa7Vw-nfwXlt98irC9bfXLo-I5GN1RbmUDxkAhqQKKbdR1h57G-E3Shw07E8oJqnNCt62SVyToyw7-JVX6ecIVeaj892I5VOtTkf8v-ZBMUZA4C4YF4YBscj87ePCskQ/s1600/escherrelativity.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 382px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-OTbHZckwBvssa7Vw-nfwXlt98irC9bfXLo-I5GN1RbmUDxkAhqQKKbdR1h57G-E3Shw07E8oJqnNCt62SVyToyw7-JVX6ecIVeaj892I5VOtTkf8v-ZBMUZA4C4YF4YBscj87ePCskQ/s400/escherrelativity.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557390646416702578" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />The piece I made by downloading the diagram, printing it on a piece of paper, and then cutting and folding as indicated.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-WhE0kLBHdRE_T1MtUvijr6Wwx4C_0cB6myNh6THzbfunx2a9BV6F3F_f6XSmRAs3pifJO2YJlMBjvH1b1QsOCVj5oQLdk-4yZWYqE7L9STGuXkdTVYqJHpmoJtpJEgp_oJPtjGuH42k/s1600/CIMG4476.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-WhE0kLBHdRE_T1MtUvijr6Wwx4C_0cB6myNh6THzbfunx2a9BV6F3F_f6XSmRAs3pifJO2YJlMBjvH1b1QsOCVj5oQLdk-4yZWYqE7L9STGuXkdTVYqJHpmoJtpJEgp_oJPtjGuH42k/s400/CIMG4476.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557388340630853250" border="0" /></a><br /><br />What Escher's would look like if it was mirrored like mine:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2NTZ4HW3ADGC6v_OK5by0YZEl3kzSY0DUv1iZRuW_tqZLLtyDFPspSkxdQA256x8lJGpaxDHFVHg9lL1A-aQadvbZLO71gVxmTCfywyY3-9eGFMpzc4jnCXgvdtR-jTnECTgztQuaro8/s1600/relativitymyway.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 382px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2NTZ4HW3ADGC6v_OK5by0YZEl3kzSY0DUv1iZRuW_tqZLLtyDFPspSkxdQA256x8lJGpaxDHFVHg9lL1A-aQadvbZLO71gVxmTCfywyY3-9eGFMpzc4jnCXgvdtR-jTnECTgztQuaro8/s400/relativitymyway.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557390649554961682" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-87226019056483791492011-01-01T15:04:00.000-08:002011-01-09T17:46:33.106-08:003D fractals cut on a scroll sawThis post is going to be on 3D fractals cut on a scroll saw. (Thus the title of course.) As some of you know, I'm somewhat addicted to making fractals, so it should be no surprise that a simple technique I learned ended up leading me to produce wooden fractals. Check out the paper craft fractals I've made <a href="http://oceananinchdeep.blogspot.com/2010/01/fractal-papercraft.html">here</a>, and the worlds largest fractal made out of tortilla chips <a href="http://oceananinchdeep.blogspot.com/2010/01/fractal-doritos.html">here</a>,<br /><br />To start this post, I'll put a couple of quick picture of the types of objects you can achieve with this technique, then I'll tell the whole story of how I started making them, and give a couple of tips, ideas and diagrams for people that want to try making them.<br /><br />Quick Preview:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAUYh2iKHEhg0tYCWIuF-7Lax0E6Me2ytRQyrFNTtUqWyb8RAJbUIuCQV5sa64oPfPyZB7GXxvkYQUN1TQ_DmKpHF_Ua6-DhVsyBy8atPaJFxjFThHG15sxHgqvPiMA6KiHUXEDZ80x8/s1600/CIMG4578.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 81px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAUYh2iKHEhg0tYCWIuF-7Lax0E6Me2ytRQyrFNTtUqWyb8RAJbUIuCQV5sa64oPfPyZB7GXxvkYQUN1TQ_DmKpHF_Ua6-DhVsyBy8atPaJFxjFThHG15sxHgqvPiMA6KiHUXEDZ80x8/s200/CIMG4578.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560359259881530914" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuTa9zI_kh75dWBZg5mBHT3kKo2M0bANUtJJafnJVi2iouwxTlQ2dvgXM8MevCUrnRjl17iJ18mYXakTlWClrpuGpKE_Bdbty-rlZO5NSeeDe_MOFIgn7HITogO4vYVcxk6m8WO0_ILUk/s1600/CIMG4586.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 81px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuTa9zI_kh75dWBZg5mBHT3kKo2M0bANUtJJafnJVi2iouwxTlQ2dvgXM8MevCUrnRjl17iJ18mYXakTlWClrpuGpKE_Bdbty-rlZO5NSeeDe_MOFIgn7HITogO4vYVcxk6m8WO0_ILUk/s200/CIMG4586.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560359271529395906" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdh26PsZ8qWHyqRU_xMc3KO0WfVK19dzQEw6YtsdCMTXgUth5VvUlwNLdMWPbSxVf9Qz2-kVMOEkTXCEFGUHGjMBj-kcC2_aRj7VLVjx06icsFprk4-wlQJwhvKBLO0ThmH36JhhZH9I/s1600/CIMG4559.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 81px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdh26PsZ8qWHyqRU_xMc3KO0WfVK19dzQEw6YtsdCMTXgUth5VvUlwNLdMWPbSxVf9Qz2-kVMOEkTXCEFGUHGjMBj-kcC2_aRj7VLVjx06icsFprk4-wlQJwhvKBLO0ThmH36JhhZH9I/s200/CIMG4559.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560359264843406850" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSL7dFEoW8g-9sfHpQIqCO9HiCbrwPQTxk2CBcQwapiEVl49h8PqbAs_lgBY-PwAQeQ1t8rOYIyjePoLzhuTGXU_RnygOCSNK2dWdii0fKZfW5H4CcVtd1Jgpegc48ZFJH-1FU4bV_lQ/s1600/CIMG4573.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 81px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSL7dFEoW8g-9sfHpQIqCO9HiCbrwPQTxk2CBcQwapiEVl49h8PqbAs_lgBY-PwAQeQ1t8rOYIyjePoLzhuTGXU_RnygOCSNK2dWdii0fKZfW5H4CcVtd1Jgpegc48ZFJH-1FU4bV_lQ/s200/CIMG4573.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560359274448700130" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Over winter break, I've spent a lot of time using my scroll saw. I started out making Christmas Ornaments; I actually cut 10 different kinds of fretwork ornaments that I found diagrams for on the internet or in various scroll saw books and gave them as presents to all of my family. I probably made about 50 wooden ornaments in total by cutting up to 6 copies at a time.<br /><br />Here's a small sample of the ornaments I made:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-1I7MSXuH-EqFxaibqgon-2rk0VwU0dmw8kBLJ27lTyNg5AkJChVYHqiqpcyN5ozrBOBiMHOhLxZV5_pcD-lIiuDhU_WUcc4ouA4Ct09swZCOD-jcCrNi09ZTCaD_rhypwbuQ3VIZDCs/s1600/CIMG4656.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-1I7MSXuH-EqFxaibqgon-2rk0VwU0dmw8kBLJ27lTyNg5AkJChVYHqiqpcyN5ozrBOBiMHOhLxZV5_pcD-lIiuDhU_WUcc4ouA4Ct09swZCOD-jcCrNi09ZTCaD_rhypwbuQ3VIZDCs/s400/CIMG4656.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560345846093256866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />I also decided to try compound cutting 3 dimensional ornaments. This is standard scroll saw technique in which you cut on 2 different faces in order to produce a result. Here are pictures of the two that I made.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoanAvtHJc9tFZodf1M4cJV8AEFqJWVjsotiwYABe07lYpoDnddqbspcZgxFMfkrheWLBIrU6FTvm_bDhOl5RqoSJWXEe13Jg94sYjSImEMlhzPz6cpEYQ5nBe-b3GNTxLw-uS5LVS2lY/s1600/CIMG4647.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoanAvtHJc9tFZodf1M4cJV8AEFqJWVjsotiwYABe07lYpoDnddqbspcZgxFMfkrheWLBIrU6FTvm_bDhOl5RqoSJWXEe13Jg94sYjSImEMlhzPz6cpEYQ5nBe-b3GNTxLw-uS5LVS2lY/s400/CIMG4647.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560346667853153346" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKVgfcii1pGaIw3C5EG9p8GHXO9mtJSC_qEuZBPniwSmWnY98k6Mn5Y6npBY4QD-XIqPGNwMw3UwDoOdoPM69rRcuafASQvuwGwh8wrjG2Qa49jLpw8vEKZZNSY8tTheD3IZrumnJTX4/s1600/CIMG4532.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKVgfcii1pGaIw3C5EG9p8GHXO9mtJSC_qEuZBPniwSmWnY98k6Mn5Y6npBY4QD-XIqPGNwMw3UwDoOdoPM69rRcuafASQvuwGwh8wrjG2Qa49jLpw8vEKZZNSY8tTheD3IZrumnJTX4/s400/CIMG4532.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560346661646100066" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />After cutting these compound ornaments out, I realized something. I was cutting out 4 different curves by only cutting two curves on each face. 2x2=4 of course... so why not try cutting 3 different curves on each face. This would give 3x3=9 curves. Hmmm... seems like exponential growth that could lead to an efficient method to produce fractal objects. So I started out trying to see what would happen if I cut out T-Square fractals on each of the 3 faces of a 1.5 inch cube that I made by taking a 2x2x48 Oak turning square (remember 2 inches is only 1.5 inches when you're buying most lumber). First I used the 2nd iteration of the T-Square which ends up getting you a cube, with 8 cubes at each corner, and then 7 cubes at each corner of those cubes for a total of 56 little cubes. This would take forever to carve by hand but probably less than an hour to cut using this scroll saw technique. I made the template by taking images from Wikipedia.<br /><br />Here's a picture:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqYOXPeCbf8WkKlytgp1ssPH8H9xLcG9e9FOQ1jLCqsqWkmtC3bUnW_YHk1CQViJoeLtZ2kBZDeNsWpIS3etTBS_rSCqh5Gx4Xb-eEetCKvspR9lkTxpxvePeKU4MbSMqHr1F-fTh0SQ/s1600/CIMG4617.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqYOXPeCbf8WkKlytgp1ssPH8H9xLcG9e9FOQ1jLCqsqWkmtC3bUnW_YHk1CQViJoeLtZ2kBZDeNsWpIS3etTBS_rSCqh5Gx4Xb-eEetCKvspR9lkTxpxvePeKU4MbSMqHr1F-fTh0SQ/s400/CIMG4617.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560348105679757682" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This one is looking at it so you only see one face letting you see what the diagram to cut it from would look like:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jP96EyzEWyH1N97MQPhxdFMhVH_Plix48Tnf_5kTm6vTdVaerkE9D6vSM864H_bOYQ3yyaCmhdQRkTrKucVLsYCbKsxzI4NjJjkjB5nON8tiI6ppeDhlb5GA8zjHEpGBM_x7AS_lJyY/s1600/CIMG4618.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jP96EyzEWyH1N97MQPhxdFMhVH_Plix48Tnf_5kTm6vTdVaerkE9D6vSM864H_bOYQ3yyaCmhdQRkTrKucVLsYCbKsxzI4NjJjkjB5nON8tiI6ppeDhlb5GA8zjHEpGBM_x7AS_lJyY/s400/CIMG4618.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560348111445063746" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />And here is the diagram it was cut from (You would fold along the red lines after scaling this to 3 inches by 3 inches) :<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBuSMBVXzPK9tqFH0Tj8oQVh0pwdxlEingoU8OfC6_VgrSdQjaQ7cwrYBaJ2b_5TZXrV3iREWdXHD17LHUUh0MMwABzgZZ91mKfsj9lxvEUnml5kW0R7DQaEOmdkNIZyuzqOjJGE30AHg/s1600/Untitled-24.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBuSMBVXzPK9tqFH0Tj8oQVh0pwdxlEingoU8OfC6_VgrSdQjaQ7cwrYBaJ2b_5TZXrV3iREWdXHD17LHUUh0MMwABzgZZ91mKfsj9lxvEUnml5kW0R7DQaEOmdkNIZyuzqOjJGE30AHg/s400/Untitled-24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560349843026346418" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I needed to try to see if I could do iteration 3. This would mean that there would be 7 little cubes on each of the 56 small cubes from iteration 2 for a total of 392 really tiny cubes, some of which are fairly deep down in the structure. I failed on my first try, but succeeded on my second.<br /><br />Here it is:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAlBCA_wXt6tMvkUBozqwFdTH5bzdBUKyZBQFRW_Oi_0VEpXfhZWhcWZGPuGgAMUyH1tbBcoYS4k5GxipaMMTTXpAK4-flmX1s_u-UCl8VZ1zfy2a6FE58KsOWgUO4mXzNWc4Ma-VhJ4/s1600/CIMG3784.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAlBCA_wXt6tMvkUBozqwFdTH5bzdBUKyZBQFRW_Oi_0VEpXfhZWhcWZGPuGgAMUyH1tbBcoYS4k5GxipaMMTTXpAK4-flmX1s_u-UCl8VZ1zfy2a6FE58KsOWgUO4mXzNWc4Ma-VhJ4/s400/CIMG3784.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560351219233924226" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />From there I decided to try a few ideas.<br /><br />Here's a 3rd iteration Sierpinski square pyramid made by cutting 3rd iteration Sierpinski's triangles on 2 faces:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxpWvoHZIo16AfVM8ShnoMSvMm9M58KS79xS-6bBQE_-61tHTxTc-9fttVGiRXS3CbkDI7gvkb9kR5Zwt4ckdlUsgLVnPvvWWWdrm1uygBgukTl_polM6J4lXK_xQB5hGT7F2-KLslifw/s1600/sierpinskisquare+pyramid.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxpWvoHZIo16AfVM8ShnoMSvMm9M58KS79xS-6bBQE_-61tHTxTc-9fttVGiRXS3CbkDI7gvkb9kR5Zwt4ckdlUsgLVnPvvWWWdrm1uygBgukTl_polM6J4lXK_xQB5hGT7F2-KLslifw/s400/sierpinskisquare+pyramid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560351713735904658" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here's a 2nd iteration Moore curve made by cutting 3 different faces using cross sections found from looking at pictures of a 3D Moore curve on Wolfram's mathworld site. Note to make this one you still have to cut a few pieces (10) by hand. But you get over 90% of the work done in an hour with the scroll saw. This is a really cool object. It is one continuous path connecting up the entire cube; a space filling curve.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyaH0ylNaDnefnqp631guC8eAs0zhNOtXCPTuVN9pwwFVOAxALJIQD8vgijIcvqEpJTD6rF8SaMRp1RKc3QcNR48uT6cjOnNa7hS32pTj6lDK1Box14NBCPdCqxsXqmnLKBlcoeAJAlEk/s1600/CIMG4577.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyaH0ylNaDnefnqp631guC8eAs0zhNOtXCPTuVN9pwwFVOAxALJIQD8vgijIcvqEpJTD6rF8SaMRp1RKc3QcNR48uT6cjOnNa7hS32pTj6lDK1Box14NBCPdCqxsXqmnLKBlcoeAJAlEk/s400/CIMG4577.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560352561279974354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Here's a fractal I made by making my own fractal tree and cutting it on two faces. Here it is looking at one face:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGOzDF0x_RVVuvhEJ8QTOyaFCXXW_YadYzDSsXO0E9Hv2nnxcPSnOuiMs5xaBTKn7mT0aeXU6d0D7kJCiZirvZPkMfeZ7gf2r5glG5BUZpVT62zOK4i5xIhMCSwJw6mFO1dJo0X8KdI8s/s1600/CIMG4587.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGOzDF0x_RVVuvhEJ8QTOyaFCXXW_YadYzDSsXO0E9Hv2nnxcPSnOuiMs5xaBTKn7mT0aeXU6d0D7kJCiZirvZPkMfeZ7gf2r5glG5BUZpVT62zOK4i5xIhMCSwJw6mFO1dJo0X8KdI8s/s400/CIMG4587.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560353347313326994" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Now seeing it from a 45 degree angle:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKzLgYcYmO5r9qidNgs2DRxRozR6AqDIQlaSH1iUnKx3cqbH9QJQ73LpdUOfZwsD-wkgnkLUGTcBmSX0IjTXczJl4A9wtgwWVk_02YUm1GPOaZwpKGZ1az-RKmolo29M8xBlqbVMd8cPA/s1600/CIMG4599.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKzLgYcYmO5r9qidNgs2DRxRozR6AqDIQlaSH1iUnKx3cqbH9QJQ73LpdUOfZwsD-wkgnkLUGTcBmSX0IjTXczJl4A9wtgwWVk_02YUm1GPOaZwpKGZ1az-RKmolo29M8xBlqbVMd8cPA/s400/CIMG4599.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560353351823478530" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Here's one made by cutting a square made out of quadratic type 1 Koch iteration 3 curves on 3 faces:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI46HnTxdGcbeVKIU2vcgberLEn00_eKhos62xXnSbOadx4lQl5ZgTWNhttJ-cc15CfmFPdqrR8i9DnZBqKP6AVLdWU9F3db2dCL5rcTguyYctK4awDIt-c5rXwQwNeUGACBpqqm5bvhk/s1600/CIMG4622.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI46HnTxdGcbeVKIU2vcgberLEn00_eKhos62xXnSbOadx4lQl5ZgTWNhttJ-cc15CfmFPdqrR8i9DnZBqKP6AVLdWU9F3db2dCL5rcTguyYctK4awDIt-c5rXwQwNeUGACBpqqm5bvhk/s400/CIMG4622.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560354000616811106" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here's another one made by cutting out nested circles on 2 faces and an x on the top. Note if you don't cut out the x on top you will be left with a very different object:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU2RFUc_k0rbIEKf2gNEWc9QXE4NbrlYFSDnRLqYYLHe6JN5WzxzPIK4n50DMDyOj9anQtSfJ5SZu71LeI-GJukv0fECTDyEasIbEmGkluWN4D6k5cDzGGIgb-0dzSqKNPDIBG6y92mSI/s1600/CIMG4603.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU2RFUc_k0rbIEKf2gNEWc9QXE4NbrlYFSDnRLqYYLHe6JN5WzxzPIK4n50DMDyOj9anQtSfJ5SZu71LeI-GJukv0fECTDyEasIbEmGkluWN4D6k5cDzGGIgb-0dzSqKNPDIBG6y92mSI/s400/CIMG4603.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560354791331896802" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisMXrJgtg7ARiUCzsAy63nfnJqsu5sPw8LLiO87JYhw5KKylZNCOpQhaRHclhaa_bzC4iXoK19TEGTP7e_zLBSdlJFTGjkDK2fVNJzsQMDve9RjQjJnGSFynH9nIwkptR8qoi56x8IPSM/s1600/CIMG4605.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisMXrJgtg7ARiUCzsAy63nfnJqsu5sPw8LLiO87JYhw5KKylZNCOpQhaRHclhaa_bzC4iXoK19TEGTP7e_zLBSdlJFTGjkDK2fVNJzsQMDve9RjQjJnGSFynH9nIwkptR8qoi56x8IPSM/s400/CIMG4605.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560354797573139426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Here's a video of the object so you can see what it looks like when rotating:<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TkZoQzwMCHc?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TkZoQzwMCHc?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A few non fractal objects:<br /><br />On each of two faces this is five circles inside another circle. Small circles were made using a drill press.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAHuWjhv6P-tae5xw4uzKmdvM5vynCRrd3uAYwPA4oMuXCHzIm2PMpn3M26VQ1VlIHyFfwSVvjEPN7XmU-XDcRdbDIFGTB4GJL6ftIUbHSGLFa11hofxq9Zgi2TI1BfA20tty68iaE2g/s1600/CIMG4566.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAHuWjhv6P-tae5xw4uzKmdvM5vynCRrd3uAYwPA4oMuXCHzIm2PMpn3M26VQ1VlIHyFfwSVvjEPN7XmU-XDcRdbDIFGTB4GJL6ftIUbHSGLFa11hofxq9Zgi2TI1BfA20tty68iaE2g/s400/CIMG4566.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560355915951447458" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Octagons on 3 faces:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-akBEIG3gDncZD-Xf4ySojDzs4J47EMHumEPscOyjE6IRwws9o0JMlbQbR4M2VOqFHwf9fwLQb5AFrySIEghyphenhyphenR2cEpbUsJioSBAqLugYrKYQbtAvTj3waRr03rD6HXL1m4AFkr1gSv1U/s1600/CIMG4542.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-akBEIG3gDncZD-Xf4ySojDzs4J47EMHumEPscOyjE6IRwws9o0JMlbQbR4M2VOqFHwf9fwLQb5AFrySIEghyphenhyphenR2cEpbUsJioSBAqLugYrKYQbtAvTj3waRr03rD6HXL1m4AFkr1gSv1U/s400/CIMG4542.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560355904119149090" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Squares on three faces connected at their vertices instead of their faces (That would give a cube of course.) Here you get a rhombic dodecahedron which makes a fair twelve sided die.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhD0baqtKsdrhlFh5U6aFjqJ75PZfO38ymRFdYKl9sKUekQi5_X68HFr2ISetHU-cDEuSKx3Oxsv1jDhpaBY_8y331Bftxh2gpV7VQICb6Zga9fC8339DU8JF1W7qEh-3vO1O0CxlUDsM/s1600/CIMG4551.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhD0baqtKsdrhlFh5U6aFjqJ75PZfO38ymRFdYKl9sKUekQi5_X68HFr2ISetHU-cDEuSKx3Oxsv1jDhpaBY_8y331Bftxh2gpV7VQICb6Zga9fC8339DU8JF1W7qEh-3vO1O0CxlUDsM/s400/CIMG4551.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560355911469141730" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This one is from a template. From one side it is a knight with armor, helmet, and sword:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCOHm72Shvc0XpzVCB7t-lo1qQY-2KZl9A49JTCKTzUFA3FuVAWBUXUhGejFh09v7AF7kbA1_OFJ2BZ8lQQKIC-OVWy9KsDiwMARYl7Hr0W2W6DpWp6bJtJXrKXBfAKUVRtc_jvuk96s/s1600/CIMG4601.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCOHm72Shvc0XpzVCB7t-lo1qQY-2KZl9A49JTCKTzUFA3FuVAWBUXUhGejFh09v7AF7kbA1_OFJ2BZ8lQQKIC-OVWy9KsDiwMARYl7Hr0W2W6DpWp6bJtJXrKXBfAKUVRtc_jvuk96s/s400/CIMG4601.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560355922010053682" border="0" /></a><br /><br />From the other it is a griffin:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-N6jCHu51n6l5VYoWcwkkevhdFjDgV8EIJtivSlKKjskJ9jT6si1ga0IyCaOWZRoEEnLLUpWi-D2C7o7GwMSa-4sgVoQsAZtGdOB11-BGUTUXQN7JjyPPtAlOsDJNtGUEJcfAzg7Kts/s1600/CIMG4600.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-N6jCHu51n6l5VYoWcwkkevhdFjDgV8EIJtivSlKKjskJ9jT6si1ga0IyCaOWZRoEEnLLUpWi-D2C7o7GwMSa-4sgVoQsAZtGdOB11-BGUTUXQN7JjyPPtAlOsDJNtGUEJcfAzg7Kts/s400/CIMG4600.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560355918732601458" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here's a video showing it rotate:<br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3UdlLrcn4w0?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3UdlLrcn4w0?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />Now for some tips.<br /><br />1. You must make sure you're stock is square and when you cut them off you are making cubes with as flat of faces as possible.<br />2. Use clear tape (I use packing tape) to cover the wood. This makes the cutting easier by lubricating the blade as it cuts through the tape. (I'm really not sure how this works...but it does make a big difference)<br />3. Just glue the diagrams up to the material to be cut using a spray adhesive.<br />4. Cut along the lines...always doing any inside cuts first. After each cut is finished, you must put the material back and retape. This is an important step. This is what supports the piece and also what keeps the piece square to the table.<br />5. After every line is cut on all sides, remove all tape and carefully deconstruct. Somewhere in the middle is the object you want! :)<br /><br />To create the diagrams, I've been finding images using either google image search or wikipedia. To make good geometrical diagrams, I also use geogebra which is a pretty cool free piece of software. I scale everything in photoshop.Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-24710217584161427572010-06-28T08:59:00.000-07:002011-01-09T17:47:02.448-08:00FrabjousI've been a big fan of George Hart's geometric sculptures for a while now and so a few weeks back I decided I would build his Frabjous (title based off the nonsense poem The Jaberwocky by Lewis Carol) since he actually gives the template for it on his site. He also says that it's a tricky puzzle...which I probably should have listened to. All along I wanted to build it out of wood...but I knew that it was going to take quite a bit of time and effort so I started out building a model of it out of paper. This was a bad, bad idea because the paper bends and it is really hard to see the shape as you are weaving everything together. I wasted several hours over a multi-week period before I re-attempted it in wood. I eventually built it out of 1/8 inch thick Baltic Birch plywood which I cut using my scroll saw and "stained" using permanent markers which does allow the grain to show through. The following pictures show some of the process and the results.<br /><br />In particular I'm proud of the tab connection system I came up with that really helped keep the thing together while maintaining flexibility. I also like the pointillism style of decorating them, though this took longer than I thought to do. Liz says that it looks like fireworks as a result.<br /><br />After looking at my pictures you really should check out some of George Hart's other sculptures. <a href="http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/sculpture.html">http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/sculpture.html</a><br /><br />And if you want to give it a try here is a link to the paper where he shows the template. <a href="http://www.georgehart.com/frabjous/frabjous.pdf">http://www.georgehart.com/frabjous/frabjous.pdf</a><br /><br /><br />The finished product.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi71ZuI-c1d66OnVjRtsqyp6mt66qNPLLvycVJ5aggIQhhj_HqKTxMOJCIQe7bLrpZpY616vVQkre-qeTcY6aZwVA97o5mN86O-sw-Eb6O_qVWzGwLm52iB3U23gWKuQQ-ar8nQDdF7szw/s1600/image011.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi71ZuI-c1d66OnVjRtsqyp6mt66qNPLLvycVJ5aggIQhhj_HqKTxMOJCIQe7bLrpZpY616vVQkre-qeTcY6aZwVA97o5mN86O-sw-Eb6O_qVWzGwLm52iB3U23gWKuQQ-ar8nQDdF7szw/s400/image011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487877962565639314" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Another angle<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdkvYAVdTf0CjXkFiEtQEfpnjPgMnGRzzaQxas15SLtJIFL7TsEU7YaV1uX3rea4LH57hm34Zw5lWwCzaMHfHMrjDYYKYGFq4mAlmpW6z4xXEUHMx9uM3ESlathuFzxW4eKnq9k-X4xQ8/s1600/image008.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdkvYAVdTf0CjXkFiEtQEfpnjPgMnGRzzaQxas15SLtJIFL7TsEU7YaV1uX3rea4LH57hm34Zw5lWwCzaMHfHMrjDYYKYGFq4mAlmpW6z4xXEUHMx9uM3ESlathuFzxW4eKnq9k-X4xQ8/s400/image008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487877966706413810" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Close up<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1UrZ_MKvzTGKm1lGF7ixQQ5uIDtPeqVvIMiMrWJFsmFBRgQ8NqvPcuw1Ue7mbLDDxXKKXN3phSGbNSlMKRKtLWSVFZafnP4YhSZTjyZWXBy5gmz5xG84GA75WFWyFYFs7pXGPIn0FhFs/s1600/image010.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1UrZ_MKvzTGKm1lGF7ixQQ5uIDtPeqVvIMiMrWJFsmFBRgQ8NqvPcuw1Ue7mbLDDxXKKXN3phSGbNSlMKRKtLWSVFZafnP4YhSZTjyZWXBy5gmz5xG84GA75WFWyFYFs7pXGPIn0FhFs/s400/image010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487878012577836050" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The individual units that must be woven through each other. There are 30 of these.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo68q7mrmw5GweXAED0tKZuBG6N3cXeHD3jSL9nSbHwu7BVtEhiKCOZCv70eU6GX1NwvrXB4sDLYEZ-yi7kT3IGwMU5koAytzf8XzU8AKLmzmOd0pjbL6iesIvsJXCdfUGxE74WgStEPQ/s1600/image004.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo68q7mrmw5GweXAED0tKZuBG6N3cXeHD3jSL9nSbHwu7BVtEhiKCOZCv70eU6GX1NwvrXB4sDLYEZ-yi7kT3IGwMU5koAytzf8XzU8AKLmzmOd0pjbL6iesIvsJXCdfUGxE74WgStEPQ/s400/image004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487878021041852242" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The signature. Note it is claimed to be a copy.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGyRfoxxATvLGimxWXKWFcEW2szHzbfJAkFlXqAr9Reo8YLsDsaNKuc1kymuih2t32kEIRAT19T1CKL2j_-sRHE9gEMrkw0kE3y6-O3wzlwFHhd7OElYHGJ4tIsgq88zAYJXRlIjwuiA/s1600/image005.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGyRfoxxATvLGimxWXKWFcEW2szHzbfJAkFlXqAr9Reo8YLsDsaNKuc1kymuih2t32kEIRAT19T1CKL2j_-sRHE9gEMrkw0kE3y6-O3wzlwFHhd7OElYHGJ4tIsgq88zAYJXRlIjwuiA/s400/image005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487878963756877346" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Close up of a completed piece. Note the tabs which allow everything to go together nicely. Since they are made of card stock they are pretty stiff but do allow some flexibility which really helps when weaving it together.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6xb9oHdiiGG6WwOLMczpI7yNPaWGntF_VpVr9QIzkH6AcjKKe4j6hvwdeoX7vjkYsn_zPZQw1uOhJiheefydJ6DcFS9hzs5PVoTOOB1ElpU0p8N-AAbhvuoPeqCwHKwzQ9WUaniyqgx0/s1600/image007.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6xb9oHdiiGG6WwOLMczpI7yNPaWGntF_VpVr9QIzkH6AcjKKe4j6hvwdeoX7vjkYsn_zPZQw1uOhJiheefydJ6DcFS9hzs5PVoTOOB1ElpU0p8N-AAbhvuoPeqCwHKwzQ9WUaniyqgx0/s400/image007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487878972266132226" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Putting it together...the start.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEippmsehP6SOl3nHSb20tt6CgSULcW3KiGgwkIQs1muf8m5cJe82e-Gg2-M7SW0ZztDFiqLpUrM9iKcsujvUupgM6DY5jg7op63w7qPdMb7eE8WMutKDcdQKMRN1KVq7MfvS4lpEEZ0QaY/s1600/image001.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEippmsehP6SOl3nHSb20tt6CgSULcW3KiGgwkIQs1muf8m5cJe82e-Gg2-M7SW0ZztDFiqLpUrM9iKcsujvUupgM6DY5jg7op63w7qPdMb7eE8WMutKDcdQKMRN1KVq7MfvS4lpEEZ0QaY/s400/image001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487878946442942354" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Showing everything is made up of standard pentagrams.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wOVCqIrr4YaEFywOABteXZZxtub4oqV9StpEuBWwdabFdTLCmb0vNyTs9gZqugaZewQgwiaAWOs6ru2KQz_1GCo3t5HT9Exg_mRIr3r4U-T_z7ZuP4W6VuCIRFPZNaAZY_SSmJBrEN0/s1600/image002.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wOVCqIrr4YaEFywOABteXZZxtub4oqV9StpEuBWwdabFdTLCmb0vNyTs9gZqugaZewQgwiaAWOs6ru2KQz_1GCo3t5HT9Exg_mRIr3r4U-T_z7ZuP4W6VuCIRFPZNaAZY_SSmJBrEN0/s400/image002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487878951529192098" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Now it's getting complicated! There's only one correct way to build this so that all the pieces remain planar!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPuFmI9gx85eaLDKxZjSEWaz_40fIgS9J4YoXOagxXlqWg2Hfp4H6h24_HahuGEO6SIkqTs0cHKwO1_syj63bonLETBjG5mv48VfQwSXpvc-d_gwIdY43NrZ5VyE1kqL71oVA9A1eBWg/s1600/image003.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPuFmI9gx85eaLDKxZjSEWaz_40fIgS9J4YoXOagxXlqWg2Hfp4H6h24_HahuGEO6SIkqTs0cHKwO1_syj63bonLETBjG5mv48VfQwSXpvc-d_gwIdY43NrZ5VyE1kqL71oVA9A1eBWg/s400/image003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487878960786613538" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-10033799151497497922010-06-17T08:13:00.000-07:002011-01-09T17:47:22.839-08:00PolypolyhedraA year and a half ago at Christmas time I started making a series of modular origami structures that are known as polypolyhedra since they are made up of an "orderly tangle" of other polygons or polyhedra. They are only held together by frictional locks (ok, ok, I did use tape a couple of times...but that's just because so many people have handled them!) and are all made up of a single type of modular origami unit. Since it was Christmas time, I decided to build them out of large (12 inch) metallic cardstock. Normally, these are hanging up in my classroom, but I took them down to use my classroom for a location to film part of a webvideo series that I'm working on with my brother, a cousin and a bunch of my students.<br /><br />To learn more about these geometric figures check out: http://www.langorigami.com/science/polypolyhedra/polypolyhedra.php4 and while you're at it check out more of Dr. Robert Lang's Origami. By the way he's a Ph.D. Physicist!<br /><br />The five intersecting tetrahedra is a fun little puzzle to solve. There are probably millions of ways to put the object together but only a few that work without causing the paper to bend a lot! I think that I could probably build and assemble it in a couple of hours now...but the first time I did it, it probably took about 10!<br /><br /><br />4 intersecting triangles<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcIl5GmFI0hGwo3bJ_cgvLjaORhNQTb1G83AWt0JF5PHq2nbhpGXiu3vf9D6c4QTM5rW-odyrgeQRO4kR42_E7S2vRBNDlrx_XrOxcEv1FkFFNF8NWg0p0amdmWBfHxFFEGjOgAhIHOz8/s1600/image001.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcIl5GmFI0hGwo3bJ_cgvLjaORhNQTb1G83AWt0JF5PHq2nbhpGXiu3vf9D6c4QTM5rW-odyrgeQRO4kR42_E7S2vRBNDlrx_XrOxcEv1FkFFNF8NWg0p0amdmWBfHxFFEGjOgAhIHOz8/s400/image001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483769837048517938" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBn3k1RuSCZUvTmFTa9z2LUV1GIOOT8f3vMsFpFAlLiEDm4o5dCCqhTyiCq8OOfQ6fdhzSLDBimgL7Mg379C6oNrSkei7N7GgdU-L-TMjPNWaBf2q759ArXrvS8x8pw2CguwVBWr-B60Y/s1600/image002.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBn3k1RuSCZUvTmFTa9z2LUV1GIOOT8f3vMsFpFAlLiEDm4o5dCCqhTyiCq8OOfQ6fdhzSLDBimgL7Mg379C6oNrSkei7N7GgdU-L-TMjPNWaBf2q759ArXrvS8x8pw2CguwVBWr-B60Y/s400/image002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483770674483879666" border="0" /></a><br /><br />6 intersecting squares<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKX8qykChaU2xVMCEaoF1RGMnIKruIg5XhUNqPB60bwPHnXMg5POUZPOM5CmmaC4N1-asnu7TFFovQtK_34mZzenpSDTNNXuJ6XDGBH0H1IuxHP_m7No4-24VVwcRlqutlNK7-LDnrsQ/s1600/image003.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKX8qykChaU2xVMCEaoF1RGMnIKruIg5XhUNqPB60bwPHnXMg5POUZPOM5CmmaC4N1-asnu7TFFovQtK_34mZzenpSDTNNXuJ6XDGBH0H1IuxHP_m7No4-24VVwcRlqutlNK7-LDnrsQ/s400/image003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483770683381749714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0MRkWBdsUAiaunGM7Q_2J-oSW_V030yS8Sq3pWyAUnaL33FMLkdT3PTHqkx47zwDvDsdFSOh9_3vKs4e8YqDDushapLCgOU59SLkXQga-0o5yb3mTRb32O3Ey8DYQNOHFF5scjdKMoo/s1600/image004.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0MRkWBdsUAiaunGM7Q_2J-oSW_V030yS8Sq3pWyAUnaL33FMLkdT3PTHqkx47zwDvDsdFSOh9_3vKs4e8YqDDushapLCgOU59SLkXQga-0o5yb3mTRb32O3Ey8DYQNOHFF5scjdKMoo/s400/image004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483770686132118498" border="0" /></a><br /><br />6 intersecting pentagons<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNAzw0rEZCP3irX1M6c83f6o7FBAhiuTeuKAFH9yhs8sS-S1dObv4fU5-GLJDeX3g9-anIfcnltV1wuhqqzpEfmp-PmTxD8uXRJutwgIocqGC8GTz_GN9uG2j0rwNHHVV80FRbD8lSvwA/s1600/image006.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNAzw0rEZCP3irX1M6c83f6o7FBAhiuTeuKAFH9yhs8sS-S1dObv4fU5-GLJDeX3g9-anIfcnltV1wuhqqzpEfmp-PmTxD8uXRJutwgIocqGC8GTz_GN9uG2j0rwNHHVV80FRbD8lSvwA/s400/image006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483770698580209970" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WG3VRc2uvxGkXRgNNhBucjdMo3LPtGWG5JR1fzplXqcmJ0qtsEI1UYmYZEfIFtcsBLEOnv6UnzvoMRk0zko9-UmRAtCtMkRzGrLotwjElD5s7t8mtBYSPPfOmuuEWwKLa8e0xrXji3Y/s1600/image007.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WG3VRc2uvxGkXRgNNhBucjdMo3LPtGWG5JR1fzplXqcmJ0qtsEI1UYmYZEfIFtcsBLEOnv6UnzvoMRk0zko9-UmRAtCtMkRzGrLotwjElD5s7t8mtBYSPPfOmuuEWwKLa8e0xrXji3Y/s400/image007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483771407685685826" border="0" /></a><br /><br />five intersecting tetrahedra<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5N6KIRDMxkLQEIz_cNbD40W0n9BuXH00WwnPx7BUImKelvBjoR30B2dEobOgEggggFMmeRHCIR9D_cpcU_jeZdD0DIWQFcMADzYJiwdAXKdhSmxfbI4KWwpd0isWpURgh-RsqhWIfnSo/s1600/image014.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5N6KIRDMxkLQEIz_cNbD40W0n9BuXH00WwnPx7BUImKelvBjoR30B2dEobOgEggggFMmeRHCIR9D_cpcU_jeZdD0DIWQFcMADzYJiwdAXKdhSmxfbI4KWwpd0isWpURgh-RsqhWIfnSo/s400/image014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483772364435537794" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4EMy9h1bcHV5o6CvGxdGAEXxyYS83e02Gi9IKQq2a6fZ4oUFwVHI4BmQRbbkIHEyfNEXijzruNLoLSWiY1EZDUwPdXD8TlN6dL4WPkFDr7cXU11H_TLEo-7oFHMIHjhVVI-wgdWnA9w/s1600/image012.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4EMy9h1bcHV5o6CvGxdGAEXxyYS83e02Gi9IKQq2a6fZ4oUFwVHI4BmQRbbkIHEyfNEXijzruNLoLSWiY1EZDUwPdXD8TlN6dL4WPkFDr7cXU11H_TLEo-7oFHMIHjhVVI-wgdWnA9w/s400/image012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483772352667796306" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuvTdtR_212TyOB3En94tMcmPvA_ykBf3OhlMOqSbYNDXPrpZLLLu-zB9uSHjpIDn-AQyTLyOU94lWiN9GFFbMMVhx4v9FiyNIw_rIjBNm-hzCKFpo33rbDluEJTweLx6rYoJswFeEpks/s1600/image015.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuvTdtR_212TyOB3En94tMcmPvA_ykBf3OhlMOqSbYNDXPrpZLLLu-zB9uSHjpIDn-AQyTLyOU94lWiN9GFFbMMVhx4v9FiyNIw_rIjBNm-hzCKFpo33rbDluEJTweLx6rYoJswFeEpks/s400/image015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483772371185664626" border="0" /></a><br /><br />All together now<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinHPnJL-GBVC30nm6nUIjsCFibcHAhyphenhyphenj4ntgo2dSM7BGGH1ftFnzlFedkH469GfrDsLqIYA6mddkjYaF_LOwbwMOVHno16QLwIaU1JHGwehdPAAZibRsBO8xY2AN74ehj7Z65EfOp4-g/s1600/image010.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinHPnJL-GBVC30nm6nUIjsCFibcHAhyphenhyphenj4ntgo2dSM7BGGH1ftFnzlFedkH469GfrDsLqIYA6mddkjYaF_LOwbwMOVHno16QLwIaU1JHGwehdPAAZibRsBO8xY2AN74ehj7Z65EfOp4-g/s400/image010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483771432509423282" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-26513280021195559222010-06-16T10:50:00.000-07:002010-06-16T11:52:10.169-07:00Staple Sears Tower SkyscraperI ran across an article a couple of months ago talking about an artist making cityscapes using staples to build the buildings. The cities were very cool looking but the buildings were just rectangular boxes. I immediately started to think of building a more interesting building and the first one to leap to mind was the Sears Tower (actually renamed the Willis Tower recently) since it is an interesting building that is built out of 9 rectangular boxes. My friend Jay has always had a fascination with the building since he was born in Chicago and so I decided to build it and give it as part of a wedding present this June (Congrats Jay)<br /><br />The model I built is about 12 inches tall and is really close to an accurate scale model. Each staple width represents 75 feet. The whole thing took about 15,000 staples, a bit of superglue and about 2 hours to build. It probably weighs a little under 2 pounds, perfect for a desk ornament/ paper weight. Someday, I'll have to build some other buildings out of staples, since I was very happy with how this turned out. The last picture is the real Sears (Willis) Tower.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJJCBFvUVXXTW3xtO_ShLW9DR8gRBCQQaEF5cPwH9DxhNR7qptnbHGM_Ssa3tHD8ZIa5CzQ7sT3PPHvcSRJLvDfh06v9_PBku5bQv5ufd_ZZaPz6huRRrNzrMoU1MDZ9KT-IV_DkMKRzI/s1600/image007.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJJCBFvUVXXTW3xtO_ShLW9DR8gRBCQQaEF5cPwH9DxhNR7qptnbHGM_Ssa3tHD8ZIa5CzQ7sT3PPHvcSRJLvDfh06v9_PBku5bQv5ufd_ZZaPz6huRRrNzrMoU1MDZ9KT-IV_DkMKRzI/s400/image007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483433833864555410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmFhJc2N5ceViONk6WeaRz9pHkxcOKBgij1X0xYeiDdWwHmA8pAuyOjWO1J8k5tmsAtkqVe7WszZCXhetD-9Ik1B6QOsm3usfnV-1O7ikzNI078qnRlrr4joaSw1OwLUlljvQFC8Rf3A/s1600/image006.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmFhJc2N5ceViONk6WeaRz9pHkxcOKBgij1X0xYeiDdWwHmA8pAuyOjWO1J8k5tmsAtkqVe7WszZCXhetD-9Ik1B6QOsm3usfnV-1O7ikzNI078qnRlrr4joaSw1OwLUlljvQFC8Rf3A/s400/image006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483433827724760402" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYJueG2mho0BTuTHSO9tzQfuCdm84Ngi7L9JBj7nDQZffM84ySbM93UjAfu4XLTubtTrn4XEkgoEvWaPLicjMXluqCT8sbW6DesoJUK8eX3RdDF8P3QQfq7uTL6TTBHAVWZjIhl5bWwsk/s1600/image001.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYJueG2mho0BTuTHSO9tzQfuCdm84Ngi7L9JBj7nDQZffM84ySbM93UjAfu4XLTubtTrn4XEkgoEvWaPLicjMXluqCT8sbW6DesoJUK8eX3RdDF8P3QQfq7uTL6TTBHAVWZjIhl5bWwsk/s400/image001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483433215016585250" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEjuSjYoXoCSTaky0_z9mFHZ_5FKOlUSXZ2DJ3lA_bQHJFELaF7GLz9BDKs-X41MrQcwH-8-yOKb-UsgJdaxIbvRsJ2mHn1TygA39FFow2M11hVltEPkMD328geua6fj-WZeWqioIAGXM/s1600/image002.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEjuSjYoXoCSTaky0_z9mFHZ_5FKOlUSXZ2DJ3lA_bQHJFELaF7GLz9BDKs-X41MrQcwH-8-yOKb-UsgJdaxIbvRsJ2mHn1TygA39FFow2M11hVltEPkMD328geua6fj-WZeWqioIAGXM/s400/image002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483433795697880178" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiajg_tUCeWsc2VKgRzFBldvqoVsa2AYuDUmaDm62zQRh94pt8SOcHbYEGdmGChVR8Sjzn-Ft6YUuaEfh5kahrqMQKIwAy9egVOezI9eGxyl3M7LjgNX_hFC5Yun79KlOcVnCUIdAOV92Q/s1600/image003.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiajg_tUCeWsc2VKgRzFBldvqoVsa2AYuDUmaDm62zQRh94pt8SOcHbYEGdmGChVR8Sjzn-Ft6YUuaEfh5kahrqMQKIwAy9egVOezI9eGxyl3M7LjgNX_hFC5Yun79KlOcVnCUIdAOV92Q/s400/image003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483433816396829714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPW65W95SS5yPKDZJhevasgASnsPcdgl4gVnyYdY-WuNFNebqLTxDCRbTElaT5JS_x-0RqrFNdhC_sbU1Wb-A9njF_WNidiG-hUvcRdqXRz2mHOP_KQOU1GIKYfhKyb4-7yuibdGBIyk/s1600/image004.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPW65W95SS5yPKDZJhevasgASnsPcdgl4gVnyYdY-WuNFNebqLTxDCRbTElaT5JS_x-0RqrFNdhC_sbU1Wb-A9njF_WNidiG-hUvcRdqXRz2mHOP_KQOU1GIKYfhKyb4-7yuibdGBIyk/s400/image004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483433822230529922" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim60sTkD1oBN-l0w2hCXNKHqwQofg9bnDCplOSz0YH03otufAo4G6MXQV0EKMJ-haUNC1WkCpAJdjR2sTRSr2QVQuawPSJB67IdkuPfzbZOUsHq6s1OwZa78EvFG8lkbP_PU5FNM6Af6A/s1600/sears+tower.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim60sTkD1oBN-l0w2hCXNKHqwQofg9bnDCplOSz0YH03otufAo4G6MXQV0EKMJ-haUNC1WkCpAJdjR2sTRSr2QVQuawPSJB67IdkuPfzbZOUsHq6s1OwZa78EvFG8lkbP_PU5FNM6Af6A/s400/sears+tower.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483446068879727426" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-12895370762113786772010-04-19T20:14:00.000-07:002010-04-19T20:48:17.045-07:00Hood OrnamentsOn a recent vacation, I ended up visiting a car museum. One of the things I ended up being really interested in was the hood ornaments.<br /><br />I thought I would try to capture them portrait style as much as possible. It was a little difficult to get the right angles but here are a few that I thought were pretty good. 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These are more pictures taken out of plane windows. I'm going to use the same introduction to this post because I am lazy.<br /><br />If the lighting is good and the window isn't too scratched up, you can take pretty good pictures out of a plane window. I'm sure someone else has done this but I've never seen images out the windows of airplanes stitched into panoramas. Here are a few that I've taken. I'll probably post up most of the others tomorrow. While planes are traveling at a few hundred mph, the distances to objects are enough that you can still take your time when snapping the pictures to stitch together. The exception to that rule is right around takeoff or landing. One of the pictures here is flying over Sacramento around sunrise and you can see that the panorama is distorted. I waited too long between pictures...<br /><br />Just click on the pictures to see slightly larger versions.<br /><br />Over Sacramento<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8p3chj3qQdgyxaiTwF1XueZD6HeRLP8PiNTj6JSKvKAno4o6nn5IvGO620fx5hU06HFVdlGMLVNW3fu3BEPfUat44ivNTaxBx5aB7uYX-TKjlQwDq02rh8L59DGzlwUNCPm5hao1TLk/s1600/2sacramentoarial2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8p3chj3qQdgyxaiTwF1XueZD6HeRLP8PiNTj6JSKvKAno4o6nn5IvGO620fx5hU06HFVdlGMLVNW3fu3BEPfUat44ivNTaxBx5aB7uYX-TKjlQwDq02rh8L59DGzlwUNCPm5hao1TLk/s400/2sacramentoarial2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459770020718113906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEishhNHK8c9pqvMeKlb-jedcV4zCAJ-5bPG1z9UssEFquuA7kjyxYVnaJSAhA0AdScdA-nxpAJP4iOLHSA63TfrYdiaOp1DDUOtw3PcDlFASaXoCebZ60DmfQjZyTb9se0eMlmN8hYmyrM/s1600/2sacromentoaerial3small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 400px; height: 191px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzbUURaENY5TM2qJKs7EdxKYfUBoHewRzFj8VKoJcIkPzkODJaOFVBEBZI3BRRZCqLLi71zqs8ELJ3Hzxwvmb2rIV7S8YHkhaKcu8WZjbxdQ8WRJ_cdoN9y_vytFnlLsakcORLuvu_9NY/s400/2sfbayfromplane2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459770454948341378" border="0" /></a><br /><br />On the image below the plane was low to the ground so I wasn't taking pictures fast enough.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_U3_01Q1lPKo8vxdtVqDBw8kpFvCYClrDOEce-rDoYrPb44p8UnKdiaeq1efs2fQ7ibmSazAWQEFOfOhUsFkLaoNXmErdGnflQC7R7FbCG5qh1Hb6JsuEgJL0ORgrb6QkizA_qAJNC8/s1600/2sfandbaybridgefromplanesmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_U3_01Q1lPKo8vxdtVqDBw8kpFvCYClrDOEce-rDoYrPb44p8UnKdiaeq1efs2fQ7ibmSazAWQEFOfOhUsFkLaoNXmErdGnflQC7R7FbCG5qh1Hb6JsuEgJL0ORgrb6QkizA_qAJNC8/s400/2sfandbaybridgefromplanesmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459770451655174146" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_whiEsP5OEHvxP60vNx-mkLUXRFFSPlPpeuyrqe8j9TJWoVKQrbhZk_1dGKivZO_1m0yCD8Cxmt-ixBdesfHhOG-rdrLxr5SSxmjy3TN01bgzoNNQ6LDxV05ZPlnNZMIwMYgzY4ZsDIA/s1600/2moreflyingsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_whiEsP5OEHvxP60vNx-mkLUXRFFSPlPpeuyrqe8j9TJWoVKQrbhZk_1dGKivZO_1m0yCD8Cxmt-ixBdesfHhOG-rdrLxr5SSxmjy3TN01bgzoNNQ6LDxV05ZPlnNZMIwMYgzY4ZsDIA/s400/2moreflyingsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459770036087201490" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyU6sjzdswf89AUzQvRJ18UHSOIXd1nKPsk5ohoylBvcOQXIuBpiZv1pAYvjkQK-RYk57Kl5GPutNoZLP-lr0xsZ8uvtWPhTJsTX8uDZd0XlkFJQyRpwJ_IGkT7PJjOlE2h10hvPVHLaQ/s1600/2saltflats1small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyU6sjzdswf89AUzQvRJ18UHSOIXd1nKPsk5ohoylBvcOQXIuBpiZv1pAYvjkQK-RYk57Kl5GPutNoZLP-lr0xsZ8uvtWPhTJsTX8uDZd0XlkFJQyRpwJ_IGkT7PJjOlE2h10hvPVHLaQ/s400/2saltflats1small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459770044259603330" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRaJjWMk0ppqP66cJvvQf6OfY6wdnUNovrZek0u0CTY-BAtUC9Iicvg0kCsfzKOkNocf3M1jLXF7mQF483_hioRKgIUrRbOXBg1WImkpFZsvRE7OOZ2KfebH-jTrKMS7A0YEfP1ypvolk/s1600/2saltflats3small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 178px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRaJjWMk0ppqP66cJvvQf6OfY6wdnUNovrZek0u0CTY-BAtUC9Iicvg0kCsfzKOkNocf3M1jLXF7mQF483_hioRKgIUrRbOXBg1WImkpFZsvRE7OOZ2KfebH-jTrKMS7A0YEfP1ypvolk/s400/2saltflats3small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459770433768537970" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3wMkA5olI7ZQEMPikOHTlcpHehR9NP6xFdjbUMtlpyg9JFsdo8FbWq7O_ANzVwqU_Qph7dRMx0hpR_e1TRoJew5cd8rq6kf93SSDil7gE7yGe785-8iFoHuUUyqbvCvGQo7ndEPR-fKs/s1600/2saltflats2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3wMkA5olI7ZQEMPikOHTlcpHehR9NP6xFdjbUMtlpyg9JFsdo8FbWq7O_ANzVwqU_Qph7dRMx0hpR_e1TRoJew5cd8rq6kf93SSDil7gE7yGe785-8iFoHuUUyqbvCvGQo7ndEPR-fKs/s400/2saltflats2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459770057753397506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />This is over the Great Salt Lake. The reddish color is supposedly due to unicellular organisms that live in the salty water.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUKLj_0HhiclYrpruh7cwK63mGC5x1tsynqhyphenhyphenK56b9Q2ojXyBjf6nwWF_lMSoFvTYNUZ7kcAzffOnhynUdVOuAVo5JMo82ThJddiScROFX-NtspHKpo8hSIfDUD4h-H4Bj_lJwUH-IYg/s1600/2saltlake1small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUKLj_0HhiclYrpruh7cwK63mGC5x1tsynqhyphenhyphenK56b9Q2ojXyBjf6nwWF_lMSoFvTYNUZ7kcAzffOnhynUdVOuAVo5JMo82ThJddiScROFX-NtspHKpo8hSIfDUD4h-H4Bj_lJwUH-IYg/s400/2saltlake1small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459770439408279890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe774k2X63O5AQrMYnLvso-zQ-a6i2vz83VzNHIEl6ZUb7HRlcjk7j94dH9c8g80FM9ZBdzrqw6IBNCPEwKV_SFitjbf_a7SVt_3wlULboN6F1vvUotdhn1ICooK-2Vn03bN7cqswVoJc/s1600/2saltlake2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe774k2X63O5AQrMYnLvso-zQ-a6i2vz83VzNHIEl6ZUb7HRlcjk7j94dH9c8g80FM9ZBdzrqw6IBNCPEwKV_SFitjbf_a7SVt_3wlULboN6F1vvUotdhn1ICooK-2Vn03bN7cqswVoJc/s400/2saltlake2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459770446003216386" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-80241038161028721912010-04-13T15:50:00.001-07:002011-01-09T17:49:36.261-08:00Aerial Panoramas 2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVcyP02lRPDkSo2hm3c3X59xYmGb6YTunDqGQ714pCzB6Y5YHi7sv6cCmwhhyRTNl65QOuSXvJdhy1JoF2qjadxasoAavP97M6jsh2Gm2_aAHhxN6KaE0JNNcsM4GcMUV32uc6SDA5wqE/s1600/2sierras3small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVcyP02lRPDkSo2hm3c3X59xYmGb6YTunDqGQ714pCzB6Y5YHi7sv6cCmwhhyRTNl65QOuSXvJdhy1JoF2qjadxasoAavP97M6jsh2Gm2_aAHhxN6KaE0JNNcsM4GcMUV32uc6SDA5wqE/s400/2sierras3small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459765588478863042" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiClOsAGR6WYqGG6zsvtp1XnErZCSvLj0H0RZ2zguWQc18IRyI261-9T3iKQPHXLxsoQ22W-CRvIIMpBI4mCNgsglP0cD5Bs9XdlQkIECpI3hACYyta14IlTV3VDg0zMpC3A76Ix4UnRco/s1600/2sierras2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiClOsAGR6WYqGG6zsvtp1XnErZCSvLj0H0RZ2zguWQc18IRyI261-9T3iKQPHXLxsoQ22W-CRvIIMpBI4mCNgsglP0cD5Bs9XdlQkIECpI3hACYyta14IlTV3VDg0zMpC3A76Ix4UnRco/s400/2sierras2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459765583323228690" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjetdpt2r9h-cAmFiXBRCNP5OOFl11kT6SnPjbrMeNIROq-LBwe57poc2C0d4ESdN3KJms5dFBDuDTn84VLTVBpb8xljkQHAGWgAfmXb1NsjKy2tiWszD6pP70-LH6FcLYvSClllk0ntss/s1600/2sfandbaybridgefromplanesmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjetdpt2r9h-cAmFiXBRCNP5OOFl11kT6SnPjbrMeNIROq-LBwe57poc2C0d4ESdN3KJms5dFBDuDTn84VLTVBpb8xljkQHAGWgAfmXb1NsjKy2tiWszD6pP70-LH6FcLYvSClllk0ntss/s400/2sfandbaybridgefromplanesmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459765579177509794" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This is a continuation of <a href="http://oceananinchdeep.blogspot.com/2010/04/aerial-panoramas-1.html">Aerial Panoramas 1</a>. These are different pictures taken out of plane windows while flying.<br /><br />Here is the same introduction because I am lazy.<br /><br />If the lighting is good and the window isn't too scratched up, you can take pretty good pictures out of a plane window. I'm sure someone else has done this but I've never seen images out the windows of airplanes stitched into panoramas. Here are a few that I've taken. I'll probably post up most of the others tomorrow. While planes are traveling at a few hundred mph, the distances to objects are enough that you can still take your time when snapping the pictures to stitch together. The exception to that rule is right around takeoff or landing. One of the pictures here is flying over Sacramento around sunrise and you can see that the panorama is distorted. I waited too long between pictures...<br /><br />Just click on the pictures to see slightly larger versions (Full Screen).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvxIbS7m_4tI-QdPIlPRgOPXFYZRd1SorkS0vhbndsB6Yx5jBHjOoIUDljWB55vGUmFgV7e9Tc9rFnEpXOV4ao7a0W21i5RLsJ-QtIUibexf7tFqWrSb5BKK5JV1d8bALOJ3SKUA8Ow8/s1600/2sacramentoarial2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvxIbS7m_4tI-QdPIlPRgOPXFYZRd1SorkS0vhbndsB6Yx5jBHjOoIUDljWB55vGUmFgV7e9Tc9rFnEpXOV4ao7a0W21i5RLsJ-QtIUibexf7tFqWrSb5BKK5JV1d8bALOJ3SKUA8Ow8/s400/2sacramentoarial2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459763229736046690" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLwSwvLXyNGf7jB5SR21KGVXKEblyNuF76E1GmxIv2rvFGpgc6pebwkylGPhAC-m4uCPU6fROVqMcgd9RPgFHzgke6_6g_b36-eT2AXqhxU1tNQa_3cDxT83QvjreuIQf-H2yazG-4dO8/s1600/2sacromentoaerial3small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLwSwvLXyNGf7jB5SR21KGVXKEblyNuF76E1GmxIv2rvFGpgc6pebwkylGPhAC-m4uCPU6fROVqMcgd9RPgFHzgke6_6g_b36-eT2AXqhxU1tNQa_3cDxT83QvjreuIQf-H2yazG-4dO8/s400/2sacromentoaerial3small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459763230742090498" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD2JKyYNqu9aWuil4MiCSa7RU2avgQZqr85ffxi20XXKx_gH3Da0NQEDrCRQMiN0-6307BDtE7NshmXMQ3LmMa7kNgpufVuQ6_MO1beV9rtU7UbipNUxXS73c_8cRYuiIKNCKAfTxsRa4/s1600/2snowcoveredmountainssmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD2JKyYNqu9aWuil4MiCSa7RU2avgQZqr85ffxi20XXKx_gH3Da0NQEDrCRQMiN0-6307BDtE7NshmXMQ3LmMa7kNgpufVuQ6_MO1beV9rtU7UbipNUxXS73c_8cRYuiIKNCKAfTxsRa4/s400/2snowcoveredmountainssmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459765594498049586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggjNTsx50MpJgq2iEHxesgalAZr3eHLOKemy4dqGvpWuzC12U1qmoIjJ5d26RixgAJ1u6fZ-2dPu8zyveI_O30CyXr6xO_-RhebFX1Atcgtem4U50vo8o5Le3O5pgFUJn_UBSjfWhVikA/s1600/2sfinlandfromplanesmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 119px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggjNTsx50MpJgq2iEHxesgalAZr3eHLOKemy4dqGvpWuzC12U1qmoIjJ5d26RixgAJ1u6fZ-2dPu8zyveI_O30CyXr6xO_-RhebFX1Atcgtem4U50vo8o5Le3O5pgFUJn_UBSjfWhVikA/s400/2sfinlandfromplanesmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459763215929902402" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiZeCBvmaMYz2rKW72UHCteTBLjOIsiDNIPAOSSS9FUhhFZuNv2udeVRVQBKsW1yk0hz5QAifGm25T4WZFzvElR_c1w0aLR4Smr5a-xvOclPaeuAoEgPC2a40TOu4jAwTbwi_3UgqbLM0/s1600/2sierras3small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiZeCBvmaMYz2rKW72UHCteTBLjOIsiDNIPAOSSS9FUhhFZuNv2udeVRVQBKsW1yk0hz5QAifGm25T4WZFzvElR_c1w0aLR4Smr5a-xvOclPaeuAoEgPC2a40TOu4jAwTbwi_3UgqbLM0/s400/2sierras3small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459763217902844834" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI1uy0TwFb_vj6KBpwWeh2ueNfyBuNWu7cOGdVmHgl1cQgF981rV20O-OkZSZg743Ydpk2MkzhCejLp45D-BsL76HWGAYY1okEnPqXzIpd0YYGMwlpogKDrHltH_pRrhnVvCsTrkUTeDY/s1600/2saltlake1small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI1uy0TwFb_vj6KBpwWeh2ueNfyBuNWu7cOGdVmHgl1cQgF981rV20O-OkZSZg743Ydpk2MkzhCejLp45D-BsL76HWGAYY1okEnPqXzIpd0YYGMwlpogKDrHltH_pRrhnVvCsTrkUTeDY/s400/2saltlake1small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459763236004164770" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-90642912746761817922010-04-11T18:03:00.000-07:002011-01-09T17:52:18.338-08:00Spring Break 2010 Light PicturesI took about 850 pictures over the 3 days I was vacationing with Liz. About 40 of them were pictures of lights. There is something about taking long exposure pictures of lights that I really enjoy. It's probably because there is a bit of a random nature to them. I don't quite know how they will turn out until I see them. It's not like standard photography in which you can truly compose your pictures. On the other hand there still are techniques to learn that when applied produce similar results.<br /><br />Anyways, here are a few of my favorites from this trip. Most are 30-60 second exposures at minimal ISO for my camera (100) and the most closed aperture for the stock lens for my camera (f22). Next to the picture you will see the approximate technique used. If you like the picture click on it to see a full screen version which is still much less detailed than the original. None of them have been photoshopped any more than cropping, resizing, a little bit of blurring/sharpening and little changes in brightness, contrast and saturation. It's mainly the original picture you are seeing here.<br /><br />Zooming<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3EDs3uzYafE5DaSEq2sYxLugThg_rW6sbATaG6-E4Yjc4dM8d0nQZZ3VkD_qmfa1I5NpdDEqRDDBoV_JwJaPR27hfDDpRU2cnV7VGokOPVoGjgUpIetjmSIvY0nUYLk4O9eDDIAIijM/s1600/P1010145correctedcropsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3EDs3uzYafE5DaSEq2sYxLugThg_rW6sbATaG6-E4Yjc4dM8d0nQZZ3VkD_qmfa1I5NpdDEqRDDBoV_JwJaPR27hfDDpRU2cnV7VGokOPVoGjgUpIetjmSIvY0nUYLk4O9eDDIAIijM/s400/P1010145correctedcropsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459050789149494866" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Panning down<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7u-QIwFzc8odXWC0twYbNU2VSzzYJnvGFH-444py706WYcl8E-KKJzfWwZ9ePst6TY2jklU9BJ8eqs2aF-WIPYmW2IAWFhu3hrvht8NIstsJzHupsMl_VLbXmbiUgcj7k79aa7RwcYas/s1600/P1010901correctedsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7u-QIwFzc8odXWC0twYbNU2VSzzYJnvGFH-444py706WYcl8E-KKJzfWwZ9ePst6TY2jklU9BJ8eqs2aF-WIPYmW2IAWFhu3hrvht8NIstsJzHupsMl_VLbXmbiUgcj7k79aa7RwcYas/s400/P1010901correctedsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459052353537650050" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Panning across<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUt1I9Hjy9PZxGeuA64LavnNOkSmk5dKksZuuu7QUw_EGyHGVgUPEcz_OgvJoV6YUH_8jrQOZkh4yAc3UnbmmdPjr6jBAFVoHb2SMdcN8UD0HFmQFU5jp-tvz8WPoR8pPbrw8ooXWjHyA/s1600/P1010913correctedsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUt1I9Hjy9PZxGeuA64LavnNOkSmk5dKksZuuu7QUw_EGyHGVgUPEcz_OgvJoV6YUH_8jrQOZkh4yAc3UnbmmdPjr6jBAFVoHb2SMdcN8UD0HFmQFU5jp-tvz8WPoR8pPbrw8ooXWjHyA/s400/P1010913correctedsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459052361091341842" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Walking forward while holding camera<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWavXm5kpCSt4L87Gcw2jkKIH6U-LnZFtXMIAPM3C29tVC0RPbrPUHmFu-pAzkZTQPQnqJ41RyOGpWlK-SPRaKKOjSOzRlcYzms9vkv8CfFwvm-8itT_hujICIgfTwR1LaCgTraiQ_-Q/s1600/P1010898correctedsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWavXm5kpCSt4L87Gcw2jkKIH6U-LnZFtXMIAPM3C29tVC0RPbrPUHmFu-pAzkZTQPQnqJ41RyOGpWlK-SPRaKKOjSOzRlcYzms9vkv8CfFwvm-8itT_hujICIgfTwR1LaCgTraiQ_-Q/s400/P1010898correctedsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459051782430928898" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Panning across<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjy9c-Vz0PDCcmwlEEYXBsjHnDdu-jsJ_bs530cUwJep2Pm8pdarceXorCF-VVRFCsoA6tEJT_yZjnTby3jgKrhkOj2JXcG3u16cmouKHugpyPhUdzuBI1PZuy2dhmvDuuoycjVbw0gIk/s1600/P1010899correctedcroppedfull.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjy9c-Vz0PDCcmwlEEYXBsjHnDdu-jsJ_bs530cUwJep2Pm8pdarceXorCF-VVRFCsoA6tEJT_yZjnTby3jgKrhkOj2JXcG3u16cmouKHugpyPhUdzuBI1PZuy2dhmvDuuoycjVbw0gIk/s400/P1010899correctedcroppedfull.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459052846397646034" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In close crop of picture above showing one section details. Due to the detail on this I really want to print up a large scale version of the picture above.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIsD9klVtOlwVWTW2SGWYBVNmsNtfLmocLezzS8hVgQ4laBPpNapTQ0-1I__Gr4kqZAl0DrrkRbRCnNNsHLkleTD6HJo07SXKPxYXFL59RRHjKJUDuEUcyBrX3AWlob7X4hUYD7DWN5s/s1600/P1010899correctedcropedzoomed1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIsD9klVtOlwVWTW2SGWYBVNmsNtfLmocLezzS8hVgQ4laBPpNapTQ0-1I__Gr4kqZAl0DrrkRbRCnNNsHLkleTD6HJo07SXKPxYXFL59RRHjKJUDuEUcyBrX3AWlob7X4hUYD7DWN5s/s400/P1010899correctedcropedzoomed1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459051787025438818" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Panning diagonally slowly jerking<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNUNUYK8VcMEVEVJYhg7aXLxpGBuRzmoQyuXnKoFxbfhnSB3t65oTsHPtNdyfsoTLPwzmPVZ_SiI4JQC3GDOGcT6O7lmmi1otrjKq9vo9uj58l065uSJi7_AggWSlT5WArdh_2jhq0dgQ/s1600/P1010144correctedsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNUNUYK8VcMEVEVJYhg7aXLxpGBuRzmoQyuXnKoFxbfhnSB3t65oTsHPtNdyfsoTLPwzmPVZ_SiI4JQC3GDOGcT6O7lmmi1otrjKq9vo9uj58l065uSJi7_AggWSlT5WArdh_2jhq0dgQ/s400/P1010144correctedsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459050782605518498" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Zooming out then tilting and zooming back in. I like the 3D effect this gives.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDEU08wEMGyYOWDCiM7497gfXUAiJib6BMTYrZZTkbPp7AUt4m8vB5VPgpzEAFXNbzRfE9atSqq8DAaXx24N9pr92zRJOAYq7Bb3HrdcjnFMblBqZeNkOHVd02VIGkQzhug04cDl3aijs/s1600/P1010153correctedcropedsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDEU08wEMGyYOWDCiM7497gfXUAiJib6BMTYrZZTkbPp7AUt4m8vB5VPgpzEAFXNbzRfE9atSqq8DAaXx24N9pr92zRJOAYq7Bb3HrdcjnFMblBqZeNkOHVd02VIGkQzhug04cDl3aijs/s400/P1010153correctedcropedsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459050794349748418" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Making lots of little circles!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmV-D1O4m45tIJuNSKKu8lOhPM-uViOVnha9Cru16gYZqFTTa8POKlWF7P3lrege0LhtS9ctG8vYcYaoBLGj8nFlolm-hy8h1aSiZhmGFFiEvh_AH118mZUC6cWQUKpUTqPrZOfqV1cjc/s1600/P1010893correctedcroppedsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmV-D1O4m45tIJuNSKKu8lOhPM-uViOVnha9Cru16gYZqFTTa8POKlWF7P3lrege0LhtS9ctG8vYcYaoBLGj8nFlolm-hy8h1aSiZhmGFFiEvh_AH118mZUC6cWQUKpUTqPrZOfqV1cjc/s400/P1010893correctedcroppedsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459051774281499954" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Walking forward while holding camera<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhegZs8JtljQxyIffEWn5ovfA5Btqsnc4kIJjITHemrRb1ZXACYiiZLIDXskTe5MINL4T4gk4DxrC-3KSfGHrffnwE4-ttJUPcyVF4qSFSaReFzjPQ4MzoWTYlAK-ll7foA30TjnvrBCXQ/s1600/P1010884correctedcroppedsmall2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhegZs8JtljQxyIffEWn5ovfA5Btqsnc4kIJjITHemrRb1ZXACYiiZLIDXskTe5MINL4T4gk4DxrC-3KSfGHrffnwE4-ttJUPcyVF4qSFSaReFzjPQ4MzoWTYlAK-ll7foA30TjnvrBCXQ/s400/P1010884correctedcroppedsmall2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459050813172722098" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Walking forward while holding camera<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAr3wTG6NQbYp4Mwt9z3EBoyEwrHjA1kfyKD6sTiJ5Kyj_h8-w5Fl9mx0lF5Qnwr1cuYKlIS-8WcVWhhOcy9XG8dlpwViRV-EMLpBBlQO3hyphenhyphen2mY4b9WctF6KNtwuh4QwlzEN6AVrWXWTU/s1600/P1010884correctedcroppedsmall1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAr3wTG6NQbYp4Mwt9z3EBoyEwrHjA1kfyKD6sTiJ5Kyj_h8-w5Fl9mx0lF5Qnwr1cuYKlIS-8WcVWhhOcy9XG8dlpwViRV-EMLpBBlQO3hyphenhyphen2mY4b9WctF6KNtwuh4QwlzEN6AVrWXWTU/s400/P1010884correctedcroppedsmall1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459050810526661906" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-66249044510472578392010-04-08T07:32:00.000-07:002010-04-08T10:11:08.598-07:00Some interesting PhotosThis post is going to be a bunch of random pictures that I think demonstrate something interesting or cool. The first few are just some close up nature still life shots. There are some high speed water pictures, some pictures playing with lights, a picture that shows the earth spinning, an ultra closeup of an eye, and a couple that show an interesting idea of changing zoom while taking a long exposure. I've commented on most of the individual pictures with the technique I was using/idea I was going for. All of the originals are 4000 x 3000 but blogger only allows 1600 x 1200. I still recommend clicking on the picture to see it at this size.<br /><br /><br /><br />I really liked taking pictures of the lizard in the next 3 pictures. He was trying to hide so he was staying as still as possible. The camera is less than a foot away from him. Only the last picture is a crop.<br /><br />Here it has an eye wide open<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQz50JubfZJCR1yJ5-NOs20mAaY5JhLCOyfU8hRoUlHsuL0Tpn4ZLC44urN4MmAbDsTKzOiOTYwS5LnGoozr_SXgie9_LNFJOV_ouWamwAea6YJi-Wstn1EL-58KpElC2sKh30CW4VBTA/s1600/lizard2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQz50JubfZJCR1yJ5-NOs20mAaY5JhLCOyfU8hRoUlHsuL0Tpn4ZLC44urN4MmAbDsTKzOiOTYwS5LnGoozr_SXgie9_LNFJOV_ouWamwAea6YJi-Wstn1EL-58KpElC2sKh30CW4VBTA/s400/lizard2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457787343721718338" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here you can see a little bit of the front of its snout.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Aty0swYiHu23Neq8dF8gGe3XgUHqRUZoE-0Z9g6r6PvKL_q4Z2EKCtPuAWeFYdB7lAzu4KjT5J-u2qkoeJZNk3WQYnjwsBon8_t-HgkNk00HLHvquKMY0gLmKhyphenhyphenSCC9woI3BXN5XQFo/s1600/lizard1small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Aty0swYiHu23Neq8dF8gGe3XgUHqRUZoE-0Z9g6r6PvKL_q4Z2EKCtPuAWeFYdB7lAzu4KjT5J-u2qkoeJZNk3WQYnjwsBon8_t-HgkNk00HLHvquKMY0gLmKhyphenhyphenSCC9woI3BXN5XQFo/s400/lizard1small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457787333147032802" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Click on the picture below to see the crazy details. This is cropped to actual pixels from the first picture of the lizard.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3NerX_Jcym_dncCiZq90yB1zgcmZv2bAGD46o_z4AsfvYOf1JfhOCEpRe8lufM753oUl1sP_NUMnEQde4nf0NAypbiNXFXhfT19-IGMCsFfPhwrvorL8T4eTpBYgvCxRjABUF9_stxF8/s1600/lizard2zoomsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3NerX_Jcym_dncCiZq90yB1zgcmZv2bAGD46o_z4AsfvYOf1JfhOCEpRe8lufM753oUl1sP_NUMnEQde4nf0NAypbiNXFXhfT19-IGMCsFfPhwrvorL8T4eTpBYgvCxRjABUF9_stxF8/s400/lizard2zoomsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457787351784810642" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Close up of water drops on a leaf. I really like the shapes that water drops form depending on what surface they are on. I also really like the reflections. I need to play around with arranging water drops sometime.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZeVvoekh3S96ZD2guvW6L4obRZ6DM2be6mkLTJ2xyXVzhTrjXYIf7lN95hN7SDsqxCKO67DXO-Pp86GZKy0eDcaTLeLpsIQgVZewjVW1CI-PPmtAx4pltY0VbfGIpnIf45kH_7OZNqs/s1600/leafdropssmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZeVvoekh3S96ZD2guvW6L4obRZ6DM2be6mkLTJ2xyXVzhTrjXYIf7lN95hN7SDsqxCKO67DXO-Pp86GZKy0eDcaTLeLpsIQgVZewjVW1CI-PPmtAx4pltY0VbfGIpnIf45kH_7OZNqs/s400/leafdropssmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457787328034402706" border="0" /></a><br /><br />With a shutter speed of 1/4000 of a second, you can get some pretty cool pictures of water though due to all the motion it is really hard to focus on. I took a bunch of pictures of water coming out of a spigot. This one turned out pretty cool.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6oZGixFI4Oq1jVY2SRJ_W0G-lfcEzvw9aWzuhNVntxBdrs1bfqNH9FeNjb_CL8tH6i6KQYvf0UokJkKcY9IoqLO3Sz6nJhqNKKKIWeu4zK1Ga6m-mMkNkzUDEO7iiLpJSM1ABlmWjyA/s1600/waterstream5small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6oZGixFI4Oq1jVY2SRJ_W0G-lfcEzvw9aWzuhNVntxBdrs1bfqNH9FeNjb_CL8tH6i6KQYvf0UokJkKcY9IoqLO3Sz6nJhqNKKKIWeu4zK1Ga6m-mMkNkzUDEO7iiLpJSM1ABlmWjyA/s400/waterstream5small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457777525272357346" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Another of the water shots. In this one it is coming out at the camera.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeo8KxraCgl1LsirtGzeV7EuFCUrZt19N9u4xbay5ijaOlK35p-sF8D2yIjfFa9ad9H0OplnEKXWt4AAqVaQZ0Te2u354733BK45OInd7R2xq28fwbrWiaKhrcwe2L0Vz_8qP7R4CmYWI/s1600/waterstream3small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeo8KxraCgl1LsirtGzeV7EuFCUrZt19N9u4xbay5ijaOlK35p-sF8D2yIjfFa9ad9H0OplnEKXWt4AAqVaQZ0Te2u354733BK45OInd7R2xq28fwbrWiaKhrcwe2L0Vz_8qP7R4CmYWI/s400/waterstream3small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457777522844776722" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This was shot at late twilight with a tripod. I started out zoomed in a 10x and then with a long exposure zoom out to be completely wide. This would give you straight lines. In order to get the smooth curve I rotated the tripod head while zooming out.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIAH7biy8aywcEfwbIPWzifz5VgfwBHbqU0cNldzCv4fzCmMARK2pOYReURnsr7E1SwF2QIYga6Eo9cjaKCzBuDwoHwTJfQ-nW3CFWcqqfD2m9RB_zlcsasx06wU4t-XOyQguq5g8wGng/s1600/lightzoomcurvesmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIAH7biy8aywcEfwbIPWzifz5VgfwBHbqU0cNldzCv4fzCmMARK2pOYReURnsr7E1SwF2QIYga6Eo9cjaKCzBuDwoHwTJfQ-nW3CFWcqqfD2m9RB_zlcsasx06wU4t-XOyQguq5g8wGng/s400/lightzoomcurvesmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457777513381757314" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The camera was on a stationary tripod in the picture below. (The camera was not moving with respect to the ground at all) At 10x zoom with a 60 second exposure you can really see how the earth is spinning. I've really boosted this picture beyond where it should go in order to see more streaks. In the original you can see the colors of the different stars. I need to shoot in raw so that I can keep more information and this even after boosting would be much cleaner. I'm really tempted to see whether I can look at the distribution of path lengths in order to find what the center of rotation is and calculate the rotation rate of the earth. It will be like the old days tracking particles in Wolfgang Losert's Lab!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3-yQVT5iXgCwJUOiJ1jLEo8e2NfrjURkt3ZwuWUMRTxm_7blR9dA1AZFDne41QXt1MO48fBkn4Uaj0E_47whHK9-MRPB5GCIOtRgcf8M9dS2iOLe7HBwKw_yCT93I2Q1lokp5TjpiIc/s1600/earthstarspin1small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3-yQVT5iXgCwJUOiJ1jLEo8e2NfrjURkt3ZwuWUMRTxm_7blR9dA1AZFDne41QXt1MO48fBkn4Uaj0E_47whHK9-MRPB5GCIOtRgcf8M9dS2iOLe7HBwKw_yCT93I2Q1lokp5TjpiIc/s400/earthstarspin1small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457777510697781650" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Long exposure taken at 10x zoom of city lights while moving the camera up and down multiple times to get so many streaks.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8YwZOm9bpit3wAeSpGNJv0bQnGIeoSqIolhjEP2gGfLPV5LN2tO4TCjpFflvkQrPak2C-1UMiscAbMlDOwfu8t_hV-GPKhovllq5Ell2yBkVWhfYFiMygxHw-z3EUZNSV8Silgziyqoo/s1600/raininglightsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8YwZOm9bpit3wAeSpGNJv0bQnGIeoSqIolhjEP2gGfLPV5LN2tO4TCjpFflvkQrPak2C-1UMiscAbMlDOwfu8t_hV-GPKhovllq5Ell2yBkVWhfYFiMygxHw-z3EUZNSV8Silgziyqoo/s400/raininglightsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457787366747694722" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is a 1 second exposure using a tripod where I start out zoomed in 10x and then zoom out completely wide. This causes perspective lines to appear where there are bright objects being photographed. This works really well on the guitar. I need to play with this in a cooler location than my classroom!<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivIcnA7b_R9Dr2wVQ4KJrQ7rIqLtqK_2XT8Tqu6VsA6nXRxbXzXD1U-WyrSaJaYPtvQ6v3K-vz2Hg3nEKi3Q_M5wTkssupE8ClMtFdwCckpsn1IpGNlP0kVgExvbA9UTMm4pTg3LEniNI/s1600/zoomstreakssmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivIcnA7b_R9Dr2wVQ4KJrQ7rIqLtqK_2XT8Tqu6VsA6nXRxbXzXD1U-WyrSaJaYPtvQ6v3K-vz2Hg3nEKi3Q_M5wTkssupE8ClMtFdwCckpsn1IpGNlP0kVgExvbA9UTMm4pTg3LEniNI/s400/zoomstreakssmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457777539509906258" border="0" /></a><br /><br />My brother's eyeball. This is not a crop. I used a cheap macro adapter and zoomed in at 10x. His eye was probably about 2 inches away from the lens. The depth of field is crazy shallow. I need to take this picture in daylight instead of indoors and I need to make sure my white balance settings are right! Still pretty cool, look at the detail on the very center of the eye.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji7FMpBhDWBhXW7dwoJ8xpipJW9AAcg4G0rWY4nUG8OA9PzknSRrGGm-SZrpxd2Fyrq4jSBBXo3-sqi15FGe-FBxDnpec6El8jTvo65QfRyTNiWbYlBLoTH6-LY2VI5v4yQMj-ewPmjQ/s1600/mikeeye1small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji7FMpBhDWBhXW7dwoJ8xpipJW9AAcg4G0rWY4nUG8OA9PzknSRrGGm-SZrpxd2Fyrq4jSBBXo3-sqi15FGe-FBxDnpec6El8jTvo65QfRyTNiWbYlBLoTH6-LY2VI5v4yQMj-ewPmjQ/s400/mikeeye1small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457792188939029362" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-4111301908009974342010-04-07T09:53:00.000-07:002011-01-09T17:50:25.076-08:00Aerial Panoramas 1If the lighting is good and the window isn't too scratched up, you can take pretty good pictures out of a plane window. I'm sure someone else has done this but I've never seen images out the windows of airplanes stitched into panoramas. Here are a few that I've taken. I'll probably post up most of the others tomorrow. While planes are traveling at a few hundred mph, the distances to objects are enough that you can still take your time when snapping the pictures to stitch together. The exception to that rule is right around takeoff or landing. One of the pictures here is flying over Sacramento around sunrise and you can see that the panorama is distorted. I waited too long between pictures...<br /><br />Just click on the pictures to see slightly larger versions.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc2V11N38ij9qsNZ0L2bjACmKNhn4gHtcQPNXB-MBq5h-TckkRZF2LI7TSa85Pfd6u3RxetLLSFxfLFePXiPbyJdLJI3IPaVbNLQ5nt1J_ER9PrIso_7YthfH0raqNJ7Dzykdp3uN0pU4/s1600/ridges3small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc2V11N38ij9qsNZ0L2bjACmKNhn4gHtcQPNXB-MBq5h-TckkRZF2LI7TSa85Pfd6u3RxetLLSFxfLFePXiPbyJdLJI3IPaVbNLQ5nt1J_ER9PrIso_7YthfH0raqNJ7Dzykdp3uN0pU4/s400/ridges3small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457441993270030786" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2uqFYOeaph8MGiPchYQEbASUngEXcAlDTPHo6VCsPqk8e7wGXOoPlLWvEtz_orZF7-PR-l3fD1DG6zFi9hMhUVUIBl3cTDPCVLWD8Fzg74cuFAf3h9K-xWgiY4jEdApPZeCt442E5Cb8/s1600/sacromentoaerial1small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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I decided I would post up some that maybe aren't the prettiest, but that involve something interesting. The first is one of the first panoramas I ever took. It was stitched together by hand instead of using an automated program. I think it is a very pretty picture of New Hampshire in the fall. In the next two pictures you can see how to take panoramas with portraits. This is one real advantage of stitching photos together. If you take all of the panorama pictures and then have someone take a picture from the same spot that you are in...you can be in the panorama. The next is an image of the Golden Gate Bridge from an unusual perspective. I really need to go back and take this correctly to fill in the gaps. The following image is Chicago taken from a moving ferris wheel on Navy Pier. Taking panoramas from moving objects actually works really well. In another post I'm going to post up pictures taken from moving cars and even airplanes. Next is vertical panorama of the inside of the Chicago Macys (Old Marshal Fields). I think that vertical panoramas are really underutilized. The last two shots are the least interesting of the bunch in my opinion. One is a picture of a topiary garden in Maryland and finally just for fun I thought I would post up my panorama of the lone cyprus (the most photographed tree in the world)<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3juHkjsGF0zb5BxLSa1hKWaFIRKu-igUb9Mvmts55posRbQm-dVvs7wZ0d4btNHM_GhK2qCvTxQcq8SKWjGKGFSgd1kMEZITHjkU7EPeOPdrvQ8cIfBvZ1BRATvoYDqgARFHEyrs-bcU/s1600/newhampshirelakefall2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 84px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3juHkjsGF0zb5BxLSa1hKWaFIRKu-igUb9Mvmts55posRbQm-dVvs7wZ0d4btNHM_GhK2qCvTxQcq8SKWjGKGFSgd1kMEZITHjkU7EPeOPdrvQ8cIfBvZ1BRATvoYDqgARFHEyrs-bcU/s400/newhampshirelakefall2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457055793516148658" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlLaWN4GmG19hrOQhhdJfcewabVBXoV170Sf-zY5Qi6oafm_KX_LSFs25bpYP_hMOQJmJOdm9NwsJxpj4mi1hI82fXhB_MxSy1mAQDywl_WwBMPxVM5H2kDqwFmsRy3iYEDepUD5PhX8/s1600/bumpasshellfull2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 400px; height: 107px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJvjsKgwB_QjK9xe_zqmV4IMAM1GgqU2UAG_Pn2FG2F_jotnLJ1hzu_lGcKit-PBsgj6QptkQsfYHXfEGqohAKxwZpUoa4f09IiLZmtgTiivy7TzvIv1o4RX-kT9dNiV2QW8p_vujwWNw/s400/lonecyprus2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457058349801866242" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-14861499874331416102010-04-05T07:37:00.000-07:002010-04-05T08:09:12.150-07:00Sierpinski TetrahedronThe Sierpinski Tetrahedron is an object with a fractal dimension of 2. If you keep iterating the object (removing the middle shape out of the remaining tetrahedra) then the volume of the object goes to zero while the surface area remains the same. In some sense it is a 2 dimensional object composed of 3 dimensional objects. In fact if you look at the Sierpinski Tetrahedron in one of 4 special ways it actually looks like part of a plane (a sheet of paper.) For a while I've wanted to use this to put two different pictures on one that you can only see when you look at it from a certain perspective. When you are done looking at the pictures you can click on this <a href="http://www.i.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Etsuiki/sierpinski/index-e.html">link</a> to see my inspiration. My version is only the first iteration and I built it to make sure that I understood how to make it. Due to the 3 d nature of the shape you must distort the picture quite a bit in order to have it look right, and it was a bit of a puzzle to figure out exactly where each piece went. Eventually I want to make a version with 64 pieces (iteration 3) instead of 4.<br /><br />I decided to use a picture of a moonrise on one side and an earthrise on the other to have something where you are seeing something from exact opposite perspectives. The video at the end is a quick mockup of how I could have it set up on a spinning stand.<br /><br />Earthrise!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvqIDloyJFZ_cntOXDTlPOfWrDJcBWn9zuoHnwOzDSlw_295At413b0EXspBZazqVPOIJS3-ZYuPonCFP1sUHeghOIuHxBXYUcSmrY2S92siTPVF4Fr3ueQ2F6slOLZ_MzhmSG7AeQzBo/s1600/image012.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvqIDloyJFZ_cntOXDTlPOfWrDJcBWn9zuoHnwOzDSlw_295At413b0EXspBZazqVPOIJS3-ZYuPonCFP1sUHeghOIuHxBXYUcSmrY2S92siTPVF4Fr3ueQ2F6slOLZ_MzhmSG7AeQzBo/s400/image012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456670044144889682" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Gm6a7G0YuQIrclRQMZrspOAyDTqKXhgewCwgkiBiTkyX3Yunsejwa3UYLV65Ci_tCA7J-qgH0VzGUQdBJLSbeuiGq73LhFZ3N5C8exeNVgALKJJBWZSo5pqq-XxpgycSOrWA87RcRpo/s1600/image015.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Gm6a7G0YuQIrclRQMZrspOAyDTqKXhgewCwgkiBiTkyX3Yunsejwa3UYLV65Ci_tCA7J-qgH0VzGUQdBJLSbeuiGq73LhFZ3N5C8exeNVgALKJJBWZSo5pqq-XxpgycSOrWA87RcRpo/s400/image015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456670052049636306" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Moonrise!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5BPIz8sKi2IxKYfzhfVGocy_LSjNAgJh1kysz-Defnqw4l8yShcZWYgLQaCBai5W9EVd1PKMEQ_FoLSgWf9QPmCA3Ilctex8P3krv-YhqG3LCt9SVB6WqT6mZg5COeauXUNQTgb2y1A/s1600/image013.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5BPIz8sKi2IxKYfzhfVGocy_LSjNAgJh1kysz-Defnqw4l8yShcZWYgLQaCBai5W9EVd1PKMEQ_FoLSgWf9QPmCA3Ilctex8P3krv-YhqG3LCt9SVB6WqT6mZg5COeauXUNQTgb2y1A/s400/image013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456670046342948194" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOd-UiAzghvjTBWJr8I33JVrEaJjVqzPeHJU9Sb8yEIS2ZbKt2vot97BXIESamO-QDdI9gnj99OK7-AbhL2nf5M2m9b6MLK61-CqeBP9I5sdZ4w5Lmbnej4gTpaBhdOjqpbSF3KyovDc/s1600/image016.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOd-UiAzghvjTBWJr8I33JVrEaJjVqzPeHJU9Sb8yEIS2ZbKt2vot97BXIESamO-QDdI9gnj99OK7-AbhL2nf5M2m9b6MLK61-CqeBP9I5sdZ4w5Lmbnej4gTpaBhdOjqpbSF3KyovDc/s400/image016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456670054588178354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_KlgA_76acoJLN_r5Pfi9gnK3XUa3Zw3tCpx-vRR13N99kwYijX_hxQJdYjf49knSJ32ljpWxw8aY2yynsaiPTEHhgn3_sJF7Ww55SF7nTc4VpjLuUzi5Zm8AgpRfLBB4X4Dea-Oh4M/s1600/image014.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_KlgA_76acoJLN_r5Pfi9gnK3XUa3Zw3tCpx-vRR13N99kwYijX_hxQJdYjf49knSJ32ljpWxw8aY2yynsaiPTEHhgn3_sJF7Ww55SF7nTc4VpjLuUzi5Zm8AgpRfLBB4X4Dea-Oh4M/s400/image014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456670066067675314" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6mMHxc0nKI0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6mMHxc0nKI0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="640"></embed></object>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-14686356393283045612010-04-04T10:02:00.001-07:002011-01-09T17:50:04.965-08:00More new camera picsDay 2: I spent a couple of minutes shooting some more pictures. For the first few I even had a hot model pose for me! After that are some pictures of some flowers. The flowers are <a href="http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/Wildseed/SweetAlyssum.html">Alyssum</a>. (Thanks Asa for the information).<br /><br />Liz:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh20N3X750Ve6sxmaAMizeLR_HxWJXThSzVcYV0_TMLVt69vHbyyTf9C7Y-ZXuVVbjfRIJoZl8WNnVPtYXz54vcjkv9SKcafk0-4xFpdXiNy1WErHFofgo_RzuHnYzjk7EQtrvXswF-ltU/s1600/P1000438cropsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh20N3X750Ve6sxmaAMizeLR_HxWJXThSzVcYV0_TMLVt69vHbyyTf9C7Y-ZXuVVbjfRIJoZl8WNnVPtYXz54vcjkv9SKcafk0-4xFpdXiNy1WErHFofgo_RzuHnYzjk7EQtrvXswF-ltU/s400/P1000438cropsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456382091843459410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxjaS3sc2TvH81txxmS_8eT7Q-VWS1xaBRmS6bK6Iv9_3RxinpTgZagLlaOpHBP-kWIkak1jUyP3o8lWd2ajSGC00SE1TFuNmWbtqJdkjUtQQNbDzQG2ue-EekVQRMZKibWIgaPtIPowU/s1600/P1000432cropsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3KINbietd2QGCX-txclxI6HtKBObrSjGKCdtoI2ThfykXSYKI4bh7mxwKVsOsQGc8VDhgHyo-tmPHqsJdxAmQYwpLHtydI0Axm4tsuYYS4k5vA2VnU8_vgiupY4prQ8iR3EQhBnjA-qI/s400/P1000282.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456383253899009746" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Oak at night:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkURI9A5fcNJNBH286xlLJIDJInZcpLd1D6jAYg1BkokYSPy-BbU4pI1uoozX3WRjPyNioBS1ZExKeXygWcYtcv6sp0886i0lEi94TYWpoUSPyZDGvNGTeb9uOOi6i9Y6n32KXQEWyrlY/s1600/P1000392small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkURI9A5fcNJNBH286xlLJIDJInZcpLd1D6jAYg1BkokYSPy-BbU4pI1uoozX3WRjPyNioBS1ZExKeXygWcYtcv6sp0886i0lEi94TYWpoUSPyZDGvNGTeb9uOOi6i9Y6n32KXQEWyrlY/s400/P1000392small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456382073447716658" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-15619389982714415082010-04-03T14:59:00.000-07:002010-04-04T08:18:39.263-07:00New CameraI finally got an Digital SLR style camera. All I have used for the last 4 and a half years is an ultracompact. Now I have no excuses for my bad photography. I ended up buying a Panasonic GH1 since my brother had one and it would be nice to exchange lenses, plus the standard lens it comes with is pretty phenomenal. It is the same camera we used for the Doritos Superbowl Contest to make this <a href="http://oceananinchdeep.blogspot.com/2010/01/fractal-doritos.html">video</a>. Here are the first few pictures. Click on the pics for 1600 x 1200 resolution. (The originals were 4000 x 3000)<br /><br />Jay (Western Scrub Jay according to Liz):<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJllmpFBKqmoeYF1-_xxsmtFp4DFoelOl_ERnUhEuvelUVABF5Z1LWFpAq10ib1UzRFpqNcrxYYGbaW6q-I5RIKQ0QOKe0kSc9Hre226dcwCqB4V9x3l6rg4ie68BEqUnHBM9UCWP5iBc/s1600/bluejaycropsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJllmpFBKqmoeYF1-_xxsmtFp4DFoelOl_ERnUhEuvelUVABF5Z1LWFpAq10ib1UzRFpqNcrxYYGbaW6q-I5RIKQ0QOKe0kSc9Hre226dcwCqB4V9x3l6rg4ie68BEqUnHBM9UCWP5iBc/s400/bluejaycropsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456036247870141458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Leaves:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindlFHiEt7hiFu-V5Ki4fMpzFmvZO4SPqi5hThpjawcz6ZMTTbM6QONEn1OAmcPJhZLLaMIh-yuwj56d4eD6VBVM_rDeKmhi-UWs8Z6LoMqX7-IyYJcEVzC6e-_YB9KKgjhSwOg_9poC8/s1600/leavessmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindlFHiEt7hiFu-V5Ki4fMpzFmvZO4SPqi5hThpjawcz6ZMTTbM6QONEn1OAmcPJhZLLaMIh-yuwj56d4eD6VBVM_rDeKmhi-UWs8Z6LoMqX7-IyYJcEVzC6e-_YB9KKgjhSwOg_9poC8/s400/leavessmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456038236570132978" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Elvis:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwjX7HHp-RWV_SAHwzOpUxuRe0-bkF9vtsn_jutDUvhniBTiX7LISIRKhRtp8OZ3QEkfZJN0N8N2SYgPOx2brnZtH4eCzgVJabaHAh4Ani7ej4HjqomBSeCh-6CNYkUBYuLaHFuQukpM/s1600/elvisstaresmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwjX7HHp-RWV_SAHwzOpUxuRe0-bkF9vtsn_jutDUvhniBTiX7LISIRKhRtp8OZ3QEkfZJN0N8N2SYgPOx2brnZtH4eCzgVJabaHAh4Ani7ej4HjqomBSeCh-6CNYkUBYuLaHFuQukpM/s400/elvisstaresmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456036275994242674" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Nuts!:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR2qDEY6m0FVREFfyodksz_khv4PORR3qUhJr5i_Q6HftnKBHlFq5XC_ldmNHZgCr5LzbvCdj2AUcj0F3TSomfoXSNmG3csVPYWytlQX-gAvHPMu8_egSlP0LvSFzf31PwD2B_4zzJzdM/s1600/nutssmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR2qDEY6m0FVREFfyodksz_khv4PORR3qUhJr5i_Q6HftnKBHlFq5XC_ldmNHZgCr5LzbvCdj2AUcj0F3TSomfoXSNmG3csVPYWytlQX-gAvHPMu8_egSlP0LvSFzf31PwD2B_4zzJzdM/s400/nutssmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456038232333941314" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Playing with Lights:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWm6HM07uK-i0WMOGFBGrWqFkVWQKitgncH9tN57qsY9_0bzkeZXGE3e27z6YGsznIOMcADSKSJ1Z-R9-n5X3kYygqXks0IRUET74mu6fgF26wTmy7c0EJk_jgY5K9pSJSi7RPL6A15CM/s1600/nightzoom.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWm6HM07uK-i0WMOGFBGrWqFkVWQKitgncH9tN57qsY9_0bzkeZXGE3e27z6YGsznIOMcADSKSJ1Z-R9-n5X3kYygqXks0IRUET74mu6fgF26wTmy7c0EJk_jgY5K9pSJSi7RPL6A15CM/s400/nightzoom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456036251891100722" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzWHyxyU_68LlCqVg2p4nNZN06kB0nL4G6sf4ES-oH4uIq03HhZHeBU36f4P4L-ryZvU8tOs_pS6T4b1b11UmLONN1HpLYzbn5lqpizvOpgDSPxlji5FEYd8w0skWpcBJAaoAVryfN_8/s1600/lightssmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzWHyxyU_68LlCqVg2p4nNZN06kB0nL4G6sf4ES-oH4uIq03HhZHeBU36f4P4L-ryZvU8tOs_pS6T4b1b11UmLONN1HpLYzbn5lqpizvOpgDSPxlji5FEYd8w0skWpcBJAaoAVryfN_8/s400/lightssmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456039733225104002" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-46302565987415103152010-04-02T07:16:00.000-07:002010-04-02T07:42:10.794-07:00HyperboloidThis continues on the idea of making curved shapes out of straight lines (see the previous hyperbola posts <a href="http://oceananinchdeep.blogspot.com/2010/03/off-on-tangent.html">here</a> and <a href="http://oceananinchdeep.blogspot.com/2010/03/hyperbolic-polygon-tesselations.html">here</a>). I made an sculpture using bamboo skewers and rubber bands. The object I made is called a hyperboloid which is the shape that you would get if you took a hyperbola and rotated it around a fixed axis. If built correctly, it would be curved even though it is composed entirely of straight lines. Mine is actually bent because I have not spaced to rubberbands correctly. The skewers are actually bent in a way that would make it so it would curve inward instead of outward so if I were to take the time to fix it, it would actually bend more. <br /><br />One cool thing about building the shape using rubberbands is that the joints where the skewers meet are free to rotate meaning that you can expand and contract the object. In many of the pictures I have expanded it out using a cog from my <a href="http://oceananinchdeep.blogspot.com/2010/02/copernican-orrery-gears-for-jupiter-and.html">orrery project</a>.<br /><br />I learned how to make this object <a href="http://www.georgehart.com/skewers/skewer-hyperboloid.html">here</a> and it is not hard to do, but it does take a while.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRXtYq6yjeGHxMXFrw5q0_mfji0VA4omCXTl6Je3VIjBMAHkBr7_NFUqEL3-m7ctqvQB_03ykqQpdC0M1fZnf0heb_SkL0Gwphr_8RCxunIiUWm4vR90bPq5K1gK2ts6uWtvM0t_pZBpI/s1600/image001.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRXtYq6yjeGHxMXFrw5q0_mfji0VA4omCXTl6Je3VIjBMAHkBr7_NFUqEL3-m7ctqvQB_03ykqQpdC0M1fZnf0heb_SkL0Gwphr_8RCxunIiUWm4vR90bPq5K1gK2ts6uWtvM0t_pZBpI/s400/image001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455546634936729234" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzt39v9xyzheSJfP6NagIGu012dys3Kl-exheoiwYllpDcSa_-mEoq9I7DAFBBOGfoCB1Cwae4vhO4ZggCLbuLLhH3lW6ZLK2zmN-hsoZvzF1q_ixL4FE7baAA3-WMqoRam9SSvNmjwc0/s1600/image002.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-Zt-8nWkPR9ryH0LY5uVglntnhRF1AMWN89Cfv_qHh7Z4KX3gsO_sbzHqSIRkKJE22KvDKv1wmjsprKxcil30RkI5TvYwMSxQhnYh6sXkUL1PJzjhoRwWV2oVph6aH2wiPMy3DypkX0/s400/image008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455547121432801058" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-75647291881137150402010-03-28T15:30:00.000-07:002010-03-28T17:09:46.241-07:00Simple GraphsIn graph theory a graph is a collection of nodes where connections between the two are shown by lines. This can easily be applied to polygons in order to draw non convex figures. You start off with a regular convex polygon and then to draw the regular star polygons you connect each vertex to another by skipping a certain number of nodes.<br /><br />If you connect up each node to every other node you get what is called a simple graph which is actually the collection of every regular star polygon drawn on top of each other. Here is that graph for a 16-gon. I then filed in the resulting tiling so that no tile is ever touching another filled in tile along an edge. In the first one I then shaded all of those tiles in ROYGBIV color order. In the next two I took the original image and shaded in what ever was left white in ROYGBIV and VIBGYOR color order.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEFPyk7Zy9RizhbAjcp7VGxEox2lw-ISUMp0sstUsE47yZz0GEvRdauUz3-0LT4udduS-dKZHA2g-Wc-219o6bH6NnS4FAAz0m7_sHdi6Hr5daNMQlhCo_JmyJv5LReaIkG3e5Z3-6l9Q/s1600/16simply+connectedcolored3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEFPyk7Zy9RizhbAjcp7VGxEox2lw-ISUMp0sstUsE47yZz0GEvRdauUz3-0LT4udduS-dKZHA2g-Wc-219o6bH6NnS4FAAz0m7_sHdi6Hr5daNMQlhCo_JmyJv5LReaIkG3e5Z3-6l9Q/s400/16simply+connectedcolored3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453840818105528162" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkib-kMDtoOIDsaf0xN_w9JZZb2KDy1BdcxVllCaMNEgVQWl84xaSEZascadMcR1KrIlriif_4wjdQZ8GDTbKEn4z1uXT4zOANbqlFTQnCT2_wXTCyDgw-J0VD80PvhZvZTNs_5Lx4gSc/s1600/16simplyconnectedcolored2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkib-kMDtoOIDsaf0xN_w9JZZb2KDy1BdcxVllCaMNEgVQWl84xaSEZascadMcR1KrIlriif_4wjdQZ8GDTbKEn4z1uXT4zOANbqlFTQnCT2_wXTCyDgw-J0VD80PvhZvZTNs_5Lx4gSc/s400/16simplyconnectedcolored2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453821211059643426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ALvwdYND1A9bJxZY196pnLA0pgWSAGA1rvSaqlDD3_LIX-KxmPzUWfnAUi8GG7SGJjddVVTHCiIOvd7PHgt93N1E6rbNjvogwVqNxvcrji0hgRzdKzCf_Rsgi6TAiKDa7Lw7zOL_Ru4/s1600/16simply+connectedcolored.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ALvwdYND1A9bJxZY196pnLA0pgWSAGA1rvSaqlDD3_LIX-KxmPzUWfnAUi8GG7SGJjddVVTHCiIOvd7PHgt93N1E6rbNjvogwVqNxvcrji0hgRzdKzCf_Rsgi6TAiKDa7Lw7zOL_Ru4/s400/16simply+connectedcolored.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453817607213828882" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-58695329377965753592010-03-28T11:36:00.000-07:002010-03-28T11:44:30.085-07:00More polygonal tilingsI finally got smart and decided to make some polygonal tilings that were completely made using a computer instead of doing hand work. You can download a cool free java program called geogebra that allows you to do a bunch of cool dynamic geometry. I made each shape once using geogebra and then copied pasted and rotated to form the tesselation in photoshop. I like the second one which really shows the strong connections between triangles, hexagons and circles.<br /><br />Squares:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_pXz4aDucnXzvYwwrtwWiY6aNRemppCPBJEf5M8Proz5ojG67p8JTZd939nqkxmnoqFp0uWvCZ7dOQo_ZQGKrYijiMWylMcXoUKwPbuf-mjsxX3gi-Z6aQZf9iIk-rsaX1EXBAJN8Ua8/s1600/trialtiled2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_pXz4aDucnXzvYwwrtwWiY6aNRemppCPBJEf5M8Proz5ojG67p8JTZd939nqkxmnoqFp0uWvCZ7dOQo_ZQGKrYijiMWylMcXoUKwPbuf-mjsxX3gi-Z6aQZf9iIk-rsaX1EXBAJN8Ua8/s400/trialtiled2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453756383856541362" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Equilateral triangles:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_UVTYRgZhwuu2Ud6Wv5BGJW8u1PMtLS10czG9LEC_YvMk5S_GjQMPT7zYha9g9rRJMIXodCnp-MljkSpPJhoJt7YpYWyyBVk5qsCfJrrpQRUgVZ7EsfPBA2lZCd5Z1D8Nv_0-fkrxKQ/s1600/trihextilesmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_UVTYRgZhwuu2Ud6Wv5BGJW8u1PMtLS10czG9LEC_YvMk5S_GjQMPT7zYha9g9rRJMIXodCnp-MljkSpPJhoJt7YpYWyyBVk5qsCfJrrpQRUgVZ7EsfPBA2lZCd5Z1D8Nv_0-fkrxKQ/s400/trihextilesmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453756393819863250" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-34685341479051797872010-03-27T22:05:00.001-07:002011-01-09T17:47:52.603-08:00Hyperbolic Polygon TesselationsI decided to try playing with different angles for making hyperbolas (as in the previous post) and decided to make the angles form regular polygons. The red objects are hexagons, the yellow triangles, and the blue are squares. There are 3 regular and 8 semi-regular tilings of the plane made out of these regular polygons. This is one of them. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx3bGQ6zKlyl7_eEqe_lrqQdIRUCOYisVQCHhOE0gDqO2bItfwKmDJzicIX9UY4JIBQEX3qjPnWHwEoE2cA3c2523kkEW4GMfTjHsRfzOdDnFVbY7Usv_H1lZdYYLY6Eh-8eIPIXpTTvg/s1600/tiledandcoloredsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx3bGQ6zKlyl7_eEqe_lrqQdIRUCOYisVQCHhOE0gDqO2bItfwKmDJzicIX9UY4JIBQEX3qjPnWHwEoE2cA3c2523kkEW4GMfTjHsRfzOdDnFVbY7Usv_H1lZdYYLY6Eh-8eIPIXpTTvg/s400/tiledandcoloredsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453547063730972802" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-30249602319436393992010-03-21T13:48:00.000-07:002010-03-21T13:59:56.263-07:00Off on a tangentThe art teacher at my school has students make geometric drawings in which curved shapes are formed by having lots of little lines cross each other. In differential calculus you learn that all smooth curves can be formed using these so called tangent lines. As you get more and more lines the curves become smoother and in the limit as the number of lines goes to infinity you can form any smooth curve.<br /><br />I decided to combine this idea with that of a fractal where if you zoom into the shape you see a similar one. Below you will see the result. It was all done using a ruler and pencils and colored markers. I then scanned it and cloned it into 4 to make the final piece. Everything is using a 1/16 inch grid and the larges piece is 8 inches meaning it has 128 lines on each side. I figure I colored in somewhere around 5,000 to 10,000 squares all together. There are 6 smaller iterations inside it and each is half the size of the one before it. The smallest is 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch. I colored them in the rainbow sequence (ROYGBIV) since there were 7 of them. You really need to click on these to see the details.<br /><br />The main fractal image.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTge9np-l9XtUEo5O9CeUOsZF6_v6uwcuTGqjSsGyDeeMwldToWTQG87RNKRLcPpmyt1t_8bcDcG7Qn1_OIQVvTtxOD6elBFRI5YoEUPov27E7F3Nxr_mZGrsnA61gHY83_KxQgKVmtBI/s1600-h/cleanfractaloneoverxcolored.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTge9np-l9XtUEo5O9CeUOsZF6_v6uwcuTGqjSsGyDeeMwldToWTQG87RNKRLcPpmyt1t_8bcDcG7Qn1_OIQVvTtxOD6elBFRI5YoEUPov27E7F3Nxr_mZGrsnA61gHY83_KxQgKVmtBI/s400/cleanfractaloneoverxcolored.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451193485489375890" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Copied Scanned and tiled<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7b3qiSQTWib0qh3KAf0YucdjrhHDwEpyIw8vBaZQAovYXxeGoe8V3vPNLqCLN3lCw89u1UaIk-fqOoWe5mRAOR3lWIxEZ2VlediGdw-bCKuZUBsdUbud97pdv1U0DwqE27MA9P6_rnfk/s1600-h/cleanfractaloneoverxcolored4square2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7b3qiSQTWib0qh3KAf0YucdjrhHDwEpyIw8vBaZQAovYXxeGoe8V3vPNLqCLN3lCw89u1UaIk-fqOoWe5mRAOR3lWIxEZ2VlediGdw-bCKuZUBsdUbud97pdv1U0DwqE27MA9P6_rnfk/s400/cleanfractaloneoverxcolored4square2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451193493083004386" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489017487232472976.post-85616732472312330562010-03-20T09:46:00.000-07:002011-01-09T17:52:53.472-08:00Spring Sunrise PanoramasToday is the vernal equinox. I'm so happy that it is finally springtime. Here was the view from my backyard this morning. Unfortunately, I really should have cleaned the camera lens after using it to take pictures for our cooking blog.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFunuYiNWOOOCw2Vb8Pwl0RP6EGAdY1SQmWmn7iadr-VRJRtLbPoBC9DNctpNk3Ipaebni6qkGNE8pZyNbDQDuuDR3Tn61PleXOCPPHAFlu5ZxgVOS5TD0rEU1mLUqa0vBR0loaEa_Uw/s1600-h/sunrisepano1small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFunuYiNWOOOCw2Vb8Pwl0RP6EGAdY1SQmWmn7iadr-VRJRtLbPoBC9DNctpNk3Ipaebni6qkGNE8pZyNbDQDuuDR3Tn61PleXOCPPHAFlu5ZxgVOS5TD0rEU1mLUqa0vBR0loaEa_Uw/s400/sunrisepano1small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450762143355069506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaRjVweh9MozOc24VL9UZ6ck8q5ZxsJZgLWgQpCVAqaMMmQfhYBgXxXLeXaiEKbIjawIjhRnk-v2QWGob2pVwvn2fIU6iN88GDJxrNxVb2Y6mwK7LEw1csdsiU_pHAS9SwSyFNjYaipII/s1600-h/sunrisepano2small.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 127px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaRjVweh9MozOc24VL9UZ6ck8q5ZxsJZgLWgQpCVAqaMMmQfhYBgXxXLeXaiEKbIjawIjhRnk-v2QWGob2pVwvn2fIU6iN88GDJxrNxVb2Y6mwK7LEw1csdsiU_pHAS9SwSyFNjYaipII/s400/sunrisepano2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450769811332986658" border="0" /></a>Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891195463499783716noreply@blogger.com0