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Projekt 52/27: Forces of Nature

2009-07-06

The next topic of Projekt 52…

27: Forces of Nature

Topic 27: Forces of nature

In thunderstormy times like this (even if they often seem to avoid the city of Pfaffenhofen), this topic makes one think of thunderstorms, of course, and so this strange cloud formation yesterday appeared to be a good motif vor this week’s project – who knows what came from it… but with wind from the west and being southwest of the cloud, nothing happened here. :)

Unfortunately it’s just a (cropped) cellphone photo, didn’t have anything better on me.

In late May, it was a little more vehement:

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Links and Videos of the Week (2009/27)

2009-07-05

 

  • What would a homeopathic emergency room look like? The British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb show it in this sketch (first via Wortvogel):

Projekt 52/26: Math around you

2009-06-29

The next topic of Projekt 52…

26: Math around you

Topic 26: Math around you

Math is everywhere, from the construction of the house I’m in to the craftsman’s bill for my desk and the computer below it, to the symmetries in flowers and the weather forecast, to the rainbow and the sunset, from the quarks to the universe itself; it’s the foundation of many branches of science. You can’t escape math1– no-one demands you calculate everything yourself and know all formulae, but ignoring it completely would also mean to ignore many intrinsic beauties of nature.

And so I used the program Foto-Mosaik-Edda to create a mosaic of Earth (Blue Marble image from Nasa) – my surroundings on a cosmic scale – from numerous of my photos of Pfaffenhofen – my surroundings on an earthly scale – (with the original overlayed at 25% intensity). And yes, this process requires some math too…

Click the image to enlarge to 1200×1200 pixels – or click here for the 4350×4350 version.


  1. though I can see why one would like to do so with the bills and taxes one has to pay ;) [↩]