Star Garden (Stan Brakhage, 1974)

Time evolution of the Poincare section for the Duffing Oscillator, by Guy Leckenby

Radiance (Shuhei Hatano, 2023)

今日12月22日(日)は昆虫大学二日目(最終日)です。16時までとなります。 コチニールの記載があるショイヒツァーの神聖自然学の図と、会場で販売していたラックカイガラムシの塊。

The Incredible Machine (1968): Bell Labs documentary about computer graphics, music and how it..”allows people to see things only mathematicians could see before..” It almost seems like something leaked from a parallel universe. youtube.com/watch?v=iwVu2B…

"..photons in free space....are equivalent to oscillations of a cavity whose walls have receded to infinity." - Richard Feynman (1965, lectures) 'The Blackbody Spectrum'

"There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance." - Jacob Bronowski, "The Common Sense of Science" (1951)

Doll-beetle hybrids by Laurent Gauthier.

To save the British pub industry, we should lobby for Tesla to introduce "pissed mode". Your car crawls home from the pub at 5mph while you're asleep in the back. Only operational between midnight and 2am. A bibulous Welsh ancestor of mine had a horse that could do that.

友人が譲ってくれた反射式天体望遠鏡がアトリエの窓辺にある。彼が天文少年だった頃に使っていたというからおそらく50年ほど前のものだ。星を捉えるための高精度の3軸マウントが美しい。 （今月の日経デザイン「デザインの小骨話」に掲載したスケッチです）

Tomislav Mikulic Elips, 1971

The Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer authored a maths book & illustrated the first printed star maps in the west, was born 21 May 1571 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/a-m… thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/rea…

This animation shows the Gillespie algorithm simulating 50 independent Poisson processes racing along a 1D lattice. Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib

A clock-work echinoderm. Steam powered and precision-drawn. Plate from Anatomie der Echinothuriden – Walter Schurig, 1906

There is a race of Asian people on an island outnumbered 1:60 who use hieroglyphics and are the only race of people on Earth who know how to use magick to enslave demons into etched metal which are being used in an arms-race to summon the antichrist and immanentize the eschaton.

Linus used to speak to engineers in 2012 the way I speak to LLMs now.

C⁜be³s (pairs intersecting)