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This way to the rabbit hole!

Sun, 06 May 2007 19:21:13 GMT

http://thecompletefloweroflife.blogspot.com/

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Whitney Music Box

jacaranda — Wed, 17 May 2006 22:58:18 GMT

This absolutely enthralls me:

http://www.coverpop.com/whitney/index.php?var=v5

Hard to pick a favorite but var 5 sounded the least chaotic to me... almost reminds me of some Tchaikovsky.

You have to watch it for a couple minutes for it to come all the way back around to the "One"

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Mario Again

jacaranda — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:13:22 GMT

Remember the dude who could play all the levels of Super Mario Bros on piano from memory?
Well here's part two to that series....

http://www.wimp.com/guitars/

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Programming for Visual/Audio Artists

Joshua — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:48:59 GMT

Just sharing some nifty ideas here...

There's a thing called "Live Coding" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding where you write the software that's making the music ...while the music is being played! So I started looking around for tools to do this (e.g. http://www.python.org/pypi/athenaCL/1.4.4 ) and all of them have a very steep learning curve.

Also, there are some beautiful interactive visual-audio art pieces on display at http://processing.org/exhibition/ along with source code for each and the open-source java applet they're based on.

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DNA origami

nannerl — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:16:46 GMT

today's nature cover: self-assembling DNA origami!
Check out the figure in our photo album, and the full text here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7082/full/nature04586.html

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trompe-l'oeil, forced perspective painting

susebraids — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:43:46 GMT

This interior design paint jobs are so insane and trippy.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/3d-paint-jobs

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ferrofluid sculpture

phidelity — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:33:08 GMT

Ferrofluid is a very interesting material originally developed by NASA. It has now been used for a whole range of devices including dampers for controlling and stabilizing large buildings that move around in the wind. What's also amazing is that they have such lovely visual qualities when magnetized.

Sachiko has taken this idea of liquid architecture more literally with these stunning sculptures made from Ferrofluid which changes their state by the introduction of electro-magnetic waves into the fluid, turning it solid.

http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1138097614/Ferrofluid_Sculpture

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Distorted Tunes Test

susebraids — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:59:23 GMT

Test your sense of pitch with this Distorted Tunes Test, developed for research into tone-deafness.

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/dtt.asp

Easy 26/26 for me. The test made me twitch.

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Coolest Thing EVER

phidelity — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:27:46 GMT

I really want one!!!! check out some of the video clips, fuego is my favorite

http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_Projector.htm

The vision chip looks like the tricky part.
But ive played with a cheap one at burningman with cheesy effects algorithms... The warping thing looks awesome.

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New Multidimensional Modular Origami Tribe!

bassobese — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:37:27 GMT

Mind-expanding multidimensional molecular mimicry, by means of meditative modular paper manipulation.
Mmmmmmmm...
Unit paper folding, kusudama origami, stellated polyhedra, fractals, spike balls, intersecting planes...
pictures, instructions, discussions, ponderings and more.

tribes.tribe.net/multidimensionalmodularorigami

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scanner fun

phidelity — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:42:43 GMT

susan youll love this one
http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1137582889/Für_Elise_Scanner_

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topology and knitting

susebraids — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:18:16 GMT

Does anyone else have a Moebius strip scarf? I made one a couple years ago. You cast on circular needles bent into a trefoil knot, and the scarf gets wider as you because you're knitting along the single edge. It's my favorite scarf:

http://www.planetshoup.com/easy/knit/scarfmb.shtml

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time loop performance art!

susebraids — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:20:25 GMT

http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=30

A team of actors performs several iterations of a 5-minute scene in a coffee shop. It's hilarious!

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not so much funny as wtf

phidelity — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:23:33 GMT

http://britneyspears.ac/physics/basics/basics.htm

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office guns!

susebraids — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:51:10 GMT

Here's a site of how to make projectile weapons using office supplies. These designs are clever and pretty elegant.

http://www.officeguns.com

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Super Mario Nerd

jacaranda — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:20:47 GMT

Only a nerd could devote this much time and effort into such an endeavor... but it's brilliant nonetheless....

I never even got to some of these later levels.

http://www.wimp.com/mariopiano/

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music jokes

susebraids — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:30:59 GMT

Maybe it's not nerd art, per se, but it's still really funny:

http://www.mit.edu/people/jcb/jokes/

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unconventional time signature

susebraids — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:34:10 GMT

Scrolling through my mp3s and listening to Sting, Ten Summoner's Tales, I noticed that he plays with time signature. There's a song on that album in 5/4, and there's another in 7/4 and 8/4 (feels like 4/2 in those sections). So I just had to nerd out about it.

Other songs that get me on time signature are Dave Matthew's "Satellite" with the 6/4-3/2 stuff, and especially Vienna Teng's "Harbor" (Download and listen to it here: http://www.viennateng.com/), which goes from 5/4 to 6/4 to 8/4 to 7/4... Crazy! But very pretty.

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yo yo's

phidelity — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:33:05 GMT

http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1130925321/Extreme_Yo_Yo_Skills

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Scott Kim - Inversions

neuronaut — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:05:58 GMT

This guy is a madman! Perhaps best known for his SGI logo. But he also does this amazing stuff where text inverted says the same thing as right side up!

http://www.scottkim.com/
http://www.scottkim.com/inversions/index.html *** This one, look at this one!
http://www.scottkim.com/graphicdesign/index.html

I think his brain is wired backwards. I don't know how he does this but there are some classroom activities listed that may help. =)

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Listen up all y'all motherfuckaz

phidelity — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:46:25 GMT

Ya whaddup bitches. K-dawg here bout to drop some fucking science on y'all ... me n the homes figgered we'de represent on the occidental tip with ours own crew dedicated to Nerd Art. Yeah! YEah! You cant even fuck with it.

You mighta heard of us... NWA ... Nerds Wit Algorithms ... well if ya aint... maybe its not too late for your sorry ass to wake up to our defnizz. We straight up rocking the IFS, we were doing Julia and mandlebrotts back before that shit blew up in the scene and every fool thinks hes some major nerd artist when he downloads some weak ass buggy fractal editor. damnnnnnn..... why so many nerds trying to be riding my jock b?

Anyhows i gots to get the fuck off the computer before my gramma starts her fucking bitching again (dont she know im loco esse? that bitch iz bout to get capped) But b-four i gots to go i wanted to drop some of my latest bomb skills from the NWA crew on ya asses

http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?set_albumName=album88&option=com_gallery&Itemid=72&include=view_album.php

BOOYAAA!

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Dear Nerd Art Tribe,

phidelity — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:54:23 GMT

Dear Nerd Art Tribe,
I realize we got off to a bad start with my first post. I understand now that some people take offense to being called a motherfucker. For that Im sorry, and I hope you received the flowers and chocolates i sent.

Now that we are friends again... I would like to share some of my new Nerd Art...
http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?set_albumName=fractals&id=complicated&option=com_gallery&Itemid=72&include=view_photo.php
http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?set_albumName=fractals&id=IntersectingRealities&option=com_gallery&Itemid=72&include=view_photo.php
http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?set_albumName=fractals&id=wringworm&option=com_gallery&Itemid=72&include=view_photo.php
http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?set_albumName=fractals&id=scarab&option=com_gallery&Itemid=72&include=view_photo.php
http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?set_albumName=fractals&id=creepies&option=com_gallery&Itemid=72&include=view_photo.php

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algorithmic anaglyphic art

phidelity — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:34:25 GMT

so yeah they are creating art with flocking alogrithims .. and then doing anaglypic processing ... (for 3d glasses) and it creates this amazing sense of depth.

If anyone has 3d glasses floating around Ive found a whole bunch of awesome sites...

Mars Topography in 3d http://www.marsunearthed.com/Anaglyphs/BestOf_AnaglyphIndex_files/Best_of.htm

3d images
http://www.geocities.com/gabriel3d/anaglyph.html

3d photos
http://www.simonbellphotography.com/

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Excellent site on music theory

susebraids — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:55:09 GMT

http://www.teoria.com/index.html

This site has it all! Tutorials, exercises, and a handy reference section. If you want to learn about reading music and rules of composition and all that good stuff, check it out. It's pretty thorough.

I personally think it KICKS!

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wildlife photography prize winners

susebraids — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:01:28 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4355628.stm

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Thoki Yenn, Danish origami guru

susebraids — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:42:29 GMT

http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~edemaine/thok/

The hot-shot young (mid-20s now, I think), computational origami professor at MIT has archived a great site.

I made the double-helix model a couple years ago, but tweaked the diagonals of the accordion folds to make it a right-handed helix, just like DNA.

Fun stuff!

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Visions of Science Photographic Awards

susebraids — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:58:39 GMT

These are awesome. I especially like the paperclip moire one (6th photo).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/sci_nat_visions_of_science_/html/1.stm

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Neato, nerdy poster

sharkgoddess — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:48:09 GMT

Susan suggested that I post this link here. Hi everybody!

www.scs-intl.com/images/pr...TableL.jpg

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shameless plug

susebraids — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:57:18 GMT

Go poke around on this website. It kicks.

http://www.phidelity.com

Fractal art, photography, and good music. This guy cracks me up, too.

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clapping to Western pop music in 4/4

susebraids — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:27:19 GMT

I clap on beats 2 and 4, as they are the "backbeats" of the measure. But I've noticed that the French seem to clap on 1 and 3. Weirdos.

Thoughts, anyone?

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Hi..

juanita — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:02:26 GMT

Like the sound of the ideas for this tribe.

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Interesting book...

dorkusmaloon — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:51:55 GMT

... called "Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music" by Anthony Ashton. I got it for my brother, who is a mathematician, about a year ago but I think that I took more of a liking to it than he did. I'm not a Brain or anything of the sort, but I like the fact that art doesn't have to have any deep meaning. Its fun to know that the answers are all there in front of you and the fact that you can loose yourself in the artistic side of it. That's what I find amazing about "Nerd Art". Below is a website where you can build your own harmonograph.

http://users.senet.com.au/~bkks/harmonograph.html

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Digital Art Contest, France

susebraids — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:31:56 GMT

The French telecommunications company, Cegetel, is holding a digital art contest, with online submissions being accepted until October 3.

If anyone wants help with French captions, I'll gladly assist in translation.

www.cegetel.fr/artdsl

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Welcome!

susebraids — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:54:51 GMT

Welcome to Nerd Art! I honestly don't know what will go on in this tribe, but I just had to create it because, well, nerdiness and artistic ability are not at all mutually exclusive.

Present-day technology provides us with powerful tools to generate all sorts of art: static images, video, music, etc. At the same time, studying past art reveals many technical aspects: vanishing point, foreshortening, anatomy, chemistry of paint compounds, music theory, etc. And let's not forget sacred geometry: the Golden Ratio (phi), Fibonnaci, pi, etc.

But we know that stuff already. Enough background; let's nerd out!

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