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Links and Videos of the Week (2009/29)

2009-07-19

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 ;) [↩]

Bromelia blossom

2009-05-25

bromelie_560
Canon 40D with Tamron 28-300, focal length 300mm, aperture 6.3, exposure 1/2s, ISO 100, manually focused and of course with tripod.

See Flickr for this and two other versions with aperture 13 and 20 in full size: set, slideshow

The photos were made yesterday – today there’s a second set of stamen and stigma in the red bract in front of the first one; I’ll keep an eye on this bromelia. By the way, the long stigma is about 4 mm longer than the yellow stamens.

Here’s a detail 1:1 crop from the F13 version:

bromelie_crop