Enzymind Labs

2x2 4-rotation cyclic L-systems

Still fun to see an new image show up in the side bar. Pa caught my attention Mark its a good one. Seems to depict, for me, looking at the sun from underwater, while a bit drunk. Would make a good logo maybe for orange juice I particularly like the swastika origin an ancient archetypal symbol with records going to Egypt and sun god idolatry before that guy usurped it. 

This ScienceDaily item touches on the relationship between mood/affect and creativity: 

Video Games Can Make Us Creative If Spark Is Right

David Brooks wrote a spot-on opinion column in the NY Times today, "The Alpha Geeks ". Brooks is an influential journalist, button-down political pundit, and cultural commentator.

Funny you mentioned this "moire" type animation trick. The last couple weeks I've been thinking about a particular motion illusion:

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Stillanimation

    Examples and comparison of a cyclic motion illusion

Directional edge contrast motion illusion comparison

One-dimensional

Checkerboard twist

A couple people have asked to use an image of mine, 16 Rotation Ambiguous Cubes, that I am fond of. Kristel Braunius, a Graphic Designer in Holland, asked to use it in "a little book about 'clean language / communication' for the university of Wageningen in Holland." She sent the page proof (below), which is a nice juxtaposition of the image with a diagram of the human visual system.

TED talk on how mushrooms might be used to save the world.

Griffin, who attends the Programmers Anonymous meetings wrote a nice program to evaluate a series approximation of pi. He used the first n terms of the Wallis product: