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!
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…).
One of the best tv-series out there is The Big Bang Theory. In one of the episodes Sheldon proposes “Rock paper scissors lizard spock” over the conventional “Rock paper scissors”, because the game would tie too often due to the limited amount of outcomes. (more…)
Lately I’ve been doing some statistics with millions of data points, and what I needed was the weighted mean. Not able to find a built-in function I decided to code my own. (more…)
A couple of weeks ago I needed to resize a folder of images, I didn’t know how to do it automatically in Photoshop or any other utility, so I turned to Mathematica. I was a little surprised that it only took me 3 lines. (more…)
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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