Iranian mosques are decorated of marvelous ceilings witnesses to centuries of devotion and artistic prowess. On BoredPanda.
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Zoom into the surface
Just at the surface of a 3D fractal volume, happen very astonishing things. Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo.
Continue ReadingTraffic lights for color-blind people
Color-blind people have all kinds of difficulties in the world we live in. One proposal has been made to ease…
Continue ReadingBenoît Mandelbrot, RIP
The creator of the fractal concept, Benoît Mandelbrot, just died. Born in Poland, the great mathematician had both French and…
Continue ReadingGenetics 101
If you were not sure that genetics was a science, you needed a controlled experiment. Here is the result of…
Continue ReadingWonderbra ad based on pure illusion
This ad for the generosity of a woman bra brand (try repeating this quickly!) is based upon a well-known optical…
Continue ReadingZoom into the Mandelbrot set
The fashion of drawing fractals is a memory of the past (it was probably linked to the first appearance of…
Continue ReadingInsects + light = movie
flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo. Long exposures of bugs under a street light. music: Telefon Tel Aviv –…
Continue Reading9 love messages from Planet Earth
You’d believe that our planet is in love. It can be read on its face (on its surface) merely under…
Continue ReadingStacey Whaley, fractals
Stacey Whaley is a painter using the most modern tools available and depending heavily on the mathematical principles of fractals…
Continue ReadingTest your color vision
Are you colour-blind like 5% of European male population? This is the question that will receive an answer here. You…
Continue ReadingCamouflage in nature
A very nice set of camouflaged animals. Source: Daily Mail.
Continue ReadingBe a beta-tester
If you have the heart of an adventurer, you may be interested to know that Ijust put in beta-test some…
Continue ReadingA few glasses and bottles
I found a few funny, interesting, or surprising glasses or vases that I wanted to share with you. The first…
Continue ReadingThe dots make the disc
The rock band Soulwax created an album with a nice optical illusion for its cover. You will have a move…
Continue ReadingBars and bars
Anatomy of an illusion
All the details about a simple optical illusion and what we can learn from it about the inner workings of…
Continue ReadingSun and shadows
Where are the shadows? Where is the sun? This simple optical illusion could let you think that MC Escher did…
Continue ReadingIs it me? Is it you?
Do you see me? I see you.
Continue ReadingSlanted life
Look closely. The word LIFE is not as slanted as you’d think at first.
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