Eternal Sunshine of the Moving Mind

Science is Art

I am slowly going there, getting exciting images from my research

Paris, City of Light

I was in Paris this weekend and the cliche is true, this really is the city of Light and Love. Even though I slept between 3 or 5 hours every night , I feel perfectly refreshed now, life is beautiful!

Life is good

Recently I was on vacation for 10 days in Iberia, it was wondeful, so I feel now really refreshed and in in perfect mood. I post here a picture of some modern artist from the CCB museum in Lissabon, the river Duro flowing into the ocean in Porto, and "The Triumph of Death", by Bruegel, a painting in the Prado in Madrid that fascinated me,as well as this one of "The three ages and death".

Now i am trying to make up for my vacation time and i am working hard back at the university.
I am progressing at my job in the robotic grasp research, this could turn to be really interesting, I post a screenshot of a succesfull grasp...


I also want to experiment with some new algoritms for image processing in matlab, combining my old work on Voronoi diagrams. Unfortunately, matlab is a bit slow with images, mich slower than java, so so far i am doing single image, video may have to be done in java... I post here an artsy colofful image, which reminds me a bit of some Andy Warhole I saw recently in some museum somewhere...

New Animated Voronoi - Giger

new techniques:

-masks for facet floating
-contruct geometric configurations like rotating point cycles
-color/lens attributes of facets

Sorry for bad video quality, Youtube limits the maximal resolution, in PAL 720x576 they look a bit better.

Animated Dripping Mirrors

Thanks to Freddie for animation support and Giger for artwork!

Liquid Rotation

An interesting effect comes with combining a rotation mask and an algorithm for deforming rectangles to any polygonal form.

Muse

New Design

I have been experimenting with merging Voronoi diagrams and photo crops. It is analogous to the original cubism algorithm, but with irregular polygon shapes.

My inspiration are Picasso and George Braque, but it is a long way until there.

Berlin Berlin

I have finished my PhD applying campaign. I got offers from five different universities in the Netherlands and Germany , and decided to go to Berlin. The research group is great, the city also attracts me. Now i am looking for a cool appartment there, stay tuned for updates.

I have worked on new rotation angle masks for cubism and the results are here.
I also plan on reading on L-systems and grammars for computer graphics and fractals, an interesting new tehnique might come out.

Giger

Back from Switzerland, more inspiration for cyberpunk Giger remakes after Rave Street Love Parade Zurich

Some rainy days

The raining season in Darmstadt is in full swing, so it is the ideal time to sit at home and work on the computer. I have been busy working implementing some geographical map features for fwcrawler, which proved to be relatively easier than i thought. The idea is to put users and artists to their countries of origin in the world map. I will be able to put it online in several days. I have used some pretty advanced stuff from wordnet to be able to create a small geographical database with countries, cities and counties. Some bugs remain, for example the database considers James to be a river in the USA, and not a personal name, and Twin a city in the USA, and not a family relation, but this will be fixed and running in no time.

Besides, I have sorted out some of my old stuff and made some new images. Enjoy.

Multi Cube Layers

I have been trying to combine cubes of different granularity. It seems easy for now to create several cubist images with different cube size with Java and than combine them as layers with different blending in Photoshop. This has the advantage that one can adjust the myriad of Photoshop filters available and see the final result.

More Cubism and Photomosaics

The latest images, experiments with techniques, shapes,texture

Cube Me

Photo mosaics can be funny. A large "me" made of thousands of small "mini me's" :-)