computer geeks + artists =

http://www.complexification.net/

This is a lovely site where you can easily lose a few hours. Try it, you'll see what I mean. They did steal a page from my cousin sara's book -- she did a series of city traveler maps on translucent paper that, laid over each other, showed where she had traveled in new york in a given timeframe. it was somehow fascinating, and these folks have something conceptually similar, but much different visually. here's one of sara's mind-bogglingly detailed paintings:

sara's not a computer geek, by the way. she's old-school: paint, brush, canvas. i told you it was mind-boggling.

But. Back to the computer geeks. I think my favorites are "bubble chamber" (which, if you let it run long enough, creates a galactic, milky-way sort of image) and "box fitting"(which pixellates tornado photos into a sort of Klimt-like structured cubism), but i haven't looked at all of them, or even half. I actually stumbled across this site on a fascinating blog (you can find it here) that popped up in a google search for images of diatoms. how much do i love the interwebs??? THIS much!

(yes, it's overcast today with occasional showers. and yes i am a nerd. but you love it.)

Geekin' out

My boss and co-workers just got a paper published in Biological Invasions! All I did was help proofread, all this stuff was way before my time. But if you are so inclined, you can check it out to see what goes on at the Avian Food Ecology lab. It's about alien domination. yeeee-uh. now where my raygun at?

for my fellow academicians out there: check the turnaround time on this. is that not incredible? received to published in 2 months? damn, we're good.

I myself hope one day to be published in the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

enjoy!