Category Archives: weird shit
serendipitous goat demon
Here’s a funny thing. I was casting an eye over a bunch of recent music artwork when I thought I noticed something. The thing I thought I’d noticed wasn’t especially interesting, actually, and the effect I thought I’d seen evaporated … more…
subblue’s animated mandelbulbs
The Formula on Vimeo Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few months ago, we had a hot lead towards immersive 3-D fractals (see Meet the Mandelbulbs) and now we have animations thereof… Music by The Formula (there’s only a … more…
Perelman spiking
Enthusiasm is enjoying the biggest traffic spike in its existence. The new visitors are coming to see my post about Grigori Perelman, from nearly four years ago. The rush seems to have been prompted by Perelman’s non-collection of the Clay … more…
santas be sketchy
Sketchy Santa This is the part where we cease to imagine ourselves blogging, for a period of some few days. Season’s whatever to you and yrz.
Trundling Blob Takes Its First Steps
iRobot’s soft, shape-shifting robot blob can roll around and change shape, and it will be able to squeeze through tiny cracks in a wall when the project is finished. I doubt that climbing walls, ceilings, trouser legs and so forth … more…
Meet the Mandelbulbs
Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal People have been puzzling over the possibility of a three-dimensional Mandelbrot since shortly after the discovery of the original 2-D figure. This recent work, while not absolutely definitively The Answer, strongly … more…
Ever Dream This Man?
In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private … more…
Peripetics
Peripetics by ZEITGUISED, 2009 This doesn’t get less interesting with repeat viewings, nor any easier to write about. I keep crossing things out. (via, well, a long story. Earliest showing on FFFF in April, then BruceS then MacT, and most … more…
fractal architecture
Medieval tower fractal, Aexion, 2007 (via @mactonnies)