Following 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!
FAIL: Get another diving certification and dive abroad
FAIL: Learn Objective C and Build an iPhone/iPad app
SUCCESS/FAIL: Try to learn a new language
For my holiday to Lebanon I tried to learn some arabic. I can read the alphabet, know some very basic phrases, now the vocabulary has to grow
Bought a spanish for dummies book…
SUCCESS: Take more (underwater) pictures
I bought a DSLR camera in the beginning of 2011 (Nikon D3100, with the Nikon 18-105mm VR and Nikon 50mm f/1.4 G lenses). I took 12607 pictures (dec 11, 2011) since January. Some of them can be seen in my backgrounds post. Also the timelapses (below) are created using this camera.
I moved to a new place, the new address is: Roomweg 91
7523BM Enschede
The Netherlands
Furthermore, I now have an email-account associated to my website: mail@shuisman.com. See also the contact page.
Mathematica 8 has a new function called ImageTransformation. The idea is that each pixel {x,y} gets its color from the original image at point f({x,y}), where f is some function. (more…)
Because everyone is posting them (12345), I did one myself as well:
Side-view, Top-view, 3D-view, and bottom: normalized amplitude vs. time. Same idea as Mike Croucher but now in Mathematica, and with the correct frequency vs. length relation (length ~ frequency^-2).
I’ve been posting a few stories regarding creating vector art. The basis of vector art are mostly Bézier curves, but how are they drawn? I was looking at the construction of Bézier curves, and thought; “How hard can it be?” [to recreate it] (Yes, Top Gear reference).
Last years I’ve been fortunate to go to some conferences around the world. I was wondering how these flights would look like in a graph. So I made a quick list of my flights: (more…)
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:
*click for bigger version*
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…).
Sander Huisman is a PhD candidate in the field of Fluid Mechanics. He enjoys traveling, photography, physics, and loves his Vibram FiveFingers shoes. More information
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