Welcome Abundance
(Source: arpeggia)
There is something special about rotations of 137.5 degrees.
This is an attempt at replicating Seeds by Jared Tarbell of Levitated and Complexification.
Mathematica code:
d[x_, y_, r_, c_, s_, F_, n_] :=
{Disk[
RotationTransform[n*2.4][{x*c^n, y}], r*c^n],
Table[
{White,
Disk[
RotationTransform[k*2 Pi/F, RotationTransform[n*2.4][{x*c^n, y}]]
[RotationTransform[n*2.4][{x*c^n, y}] + c^n {r - s, 0}], s*c^n]},
{k, 0, F - 1, 1}]}
Manipulate[
ImageCrop[
Graphics[
Table[
d[3, 0, 1 - .1*Sin[t + n*Pi/110]^2, 1.025, .03, 24, n],
{n, 0, 110, 1}],
PlotRange -> 30, Background -> Black, ImageSize -> 700],
{500, 700}],
{t, 0, 39 Pi/40, Pi/40}]
Manipulate[[
ImageCrop[
Graphics[
Table[
d[3, 0, 1 - .1*Sin[t*3 Pi/40 + n*2 Pi/110]^2, 1.025, .03, 24, n],
{n, If[t < 66 , 0, 2 (t - 65)], If[t < 56, 2 t, 110], 1}],
PlotRange -> 30, Background -> Black, ImageSize -> 700],
{500, 700}],
{t, 0, 120, 1}]
After the 2012 transit of Venus in ultra-high definition photos, the transit in ultra-high definition video.
Frida – stunning series by Austrian creative studio atelier olschinsky
“You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don’t know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go. You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.”
Oprah Winfrey addresses the graduating class of 2012, joining some of recent history’s most memorable commencement speakers, including Neil Gaiman, David Foster Wallace, Ellen DeGeneres, Aaron Sorkin, Barack Obama, Ray Bradbury, J. K. Rowling, Steve Jobs, Robert Krulwich, Meryl Streep, and Jeff Bezos.
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(Reblogged from explore-blog)
All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.
Mark Twain on the myth of originality in a letter to his friend Helen Keller, who had been accused of plagiarism. (via explore-blog)
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(Reblogged from explore-blog)
Paralyzed and silent in her bed, my daughter Paula taught me a lesson that is now my mantra: You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
In Giving I Connect With Others – beautiful and moving essay by novelist Isabel Allende on what losing her 28-year-old daughter taught her about the purpose of human existence. (via explore-blog)
