Another Adobe Illustrator creation, another Mario related item; the Piranha plant.
A large version can be found HERE.
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Mario Piranha Pipe
Saturday, September 15th, 2012Cut ‘n slide fractal
Friday, April 13th, 2012Starting from a square we iteratively cut it in pieces and slice it sideways.
Pasta :: NYT :: Discovery Channel :: NRC :: RNW [Updated III]
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Following my post of nov 2010 on pasta shapes, and the sequel to that last june, now, the New York Times interviewed me regarding the pasta. Check it out. As quite a few have asked; what is the process of creating a pasta, here is a video describing the process. Based on a lemniscate, we extrude it, and twist it! That’s it!
Covered by the New York Times
Also covered by the Discovery Channel (Daily Planet show)
Also covered by Playing with Mathematica
Also covered by http://www.verascienza.com
Also covered by http://www.rendabordo.com
Also covered by http://ceticismo.net
Also covered by BioQuakes
Also covered by Spaghetti and Meatballs
Also covered by Math Munch
Also covered by the NRC (Dutch newspaper).
Also covered by Deutschlandfunk (German radio station), or download the German interview here (MP3).
Update 2:
Also covered by the RNW (Radio Netherlands Worldwide).
Also covered by the University of Twente.
Update 3:
Also covered by Obrasweb Mexico article I and article II.
Backgrounds
Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Here are some of the photos I took this year. Click on each of them to get the high-resolution background photos.
1: “Gherkin”, London, United Kingdom
2: Corniche Fisherman, Beirut, Lebanon
3: Corniche at night, Beirut, Lebanon
4: “Gherkin”, London, United Kingdom
5: Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon
6: View from the souqs of Byblos during sunset, Lebanon
7: “Gherkin”, London, United Kingdom
8: One hour exposure of the stars, Enschede, The Netherlands
9: Meadow around Enschede, The Netherlands
Pasta visualization – Part II [Updated]
Sunday, June 5th, 2011![Pasta visualization – Part II [Updated]](http://shuisman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/past_icon_farfalle.png "Pasta visualization – Part II [Updated]"){kind=icon}
A couple of post back, I plotted the Gemelli pasta. And I already revealed I plotted a lot more. I kind of forgot about it, but Sol Lederman from Playing with Mathematica kindly reminded me. I agreed to feature my pasta’s on his website, have a look at his website for all my pasta’s and the code to recreate them.
As quite a few have asked; what is the process of creating a pasta, here is a video describing the process. Starting with (part of) a lemniscate, we extrude this shape, and twist it.
Here are some stills of the other pastas:
Try to figure out how each of them is created, what elements/techniques are used to create certain features (ragged edges, revolving, cutting, wiggling, circular, toroidal, helicity…).
Tintin – vectorized
Monday, May 9th, 2011
In my last post I was telling I was working on three new drawings, one of them being a cartoon character. Well here it is! Tintin, Kuifje, Tim, or Tintim depending on where you live. I chose Tintin because I loved the tv-series when I was a kid.
This time I will give a bit more insight into the piece:
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An old vector drawing, and a sneak-peek of what is coming!
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
As some of you know, I like to make vector based drawing, see e.g.: 1 2 3.
I’m currently working on three new pieces:
- realistic drawing based on a photo (B&W)
- cartoon character (color) (like mario)
- cartoon character color (B&W)
The first is progressing really nicely, ~130 paths with ~21500 (mesh)points up to now. The first cartoon is nearly finished, needs some more detailing. The last cartoon is in a very early stage, far from done.
As I don’t have any new stuff now, I will show you one of my vectorization I did in aug 2008. This image was already vectorized by someone, but I redid it. You might ask: “What’s the point? You could have copied his picture or his vector-file!”. For me this is not the point of these drawings. For me journey towards the the final result is the interesting part; how can I push the software (Adobe Illustrator) to make things look the way I want. What tools and techniques can I use to accomplish this effect I’ve been looking for? For me the motivation of the drawings is not the end result, it is the journey and the challenge of recreating reality using `simple’ tools.
This particular drawing was a challenge for me: can I recreate what someone else already did? After a couple of weeks of fiddling around with Illustrator I came up with this:
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Awaking colors
Monday, April 11th, 2011Together with a friend we created this video:
enjoy!
For more info look here.
Hinged tessellation
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Fractal zoom
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
I’ve always wanted to make a fractal image, at first, I thought: “Let’s do the Mandelbrot set!”, but then I realized that is was already done a billion times. So let’s do another function; a more exotic function.
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