Creating Digital Images

Spring

2012-02-01T00:11:00.001Z

P3210005_adj, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Using PhoXo - Cut Outs

2011-09-17T00:07:00.001Z

Blue

2010-12-22T18:37:00.001Z

P9300028, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Aberdeen in September

2009-10-06T17:41:00.001Z

DS Autumn 09

2009-10-06T17:29:00.003Z

Swirl

2008-11-03T21:36:00.001Z

Swirl, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Snails I have known

2008-07-19T17:15:00.001Z

Sparkle

2008-06-18T09:40:00.002Z

reddish

2008-05-30T12:22:00.001Z

reddish, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

All at sea

2008-04-20T19:24:00.005Z

All at sea, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Fish out of water

2008-04-20T19:24:00.003Z

Fish out of water, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Fishing Line

2008-04-20T19:24:00.001Z

Fishing Line, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Sky

2008-04-13T18:27:00.002Z

Blue & Lilac

2008-04-06T21:52:00.003Z

Blue & Lilac, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Blue & Grey

2008-04-06T21:52:00.001Z

Blue & Grey, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Grey Curves

2008-04-06T21:27:00.003Z

Grey, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Triangular

2008-04-06T21:23:00.001Z

Triangular, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Lamp Posts Adjusted

2008-04-06T21:17:00.002Z

P4010147_adj, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Lamp Posts

2008-04-06T21:16:00.002Z

P4010147, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Stitched

2008-01-21T01:09:00.001Z

Newquay

Honesty

2008-01-21T01:04:00.000Z

Petals

2008-01-21T00:58:00.000Z

Sometimes I resist the temptation to mess about too much with my pictures.

Variations on 63

2008-01-20T23:21:00.001Z

63 plus

2008-01-20T23:19:00.001Z

Painting no 63

2008-01-20T23:06:00.000Z

Fractals

2008-01-13T01:59:00.001Z

I created the image on the left using Paint.NET which is a free graphics package. A short definition from Wikipedia is given below, and if you google fractal you will find the most beautiful pictures imaginable. I would also suggest you have a look at the following video. The speaker is enlightening and also entertaining.

Fractals and Africa

"Ethno-mathematician" Ron Eglash is the author of African Fractals, a book that examines the fractal patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa. By looking at aerial-view photos -- and then following up with detailed research on the ground Eglash discovered that many African villages are purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with self-similar shapes repeated in the rooms of the house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village, in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: "When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet."

A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole"

The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured."

A fractal often has the following features:

It has a fine structure at arbitrarily small scales.
It is too irregular to be easily described in traditional Euclidean geometric language.
It is self-similar (at least approximately or stochastically).
It has a Hausdorff dimension which is greater than its topological dimension (although this requirement is not met by space-filling curves such as the Hilbert curve).
It has a simple and recursive definition

2008-01-03T23:24:00.001Z

2008-01-03T23:21:00.000Z

2008-01-03T23:18:00.000Z

Lily

2007-11-18T12:06:00.001Z

Flowers

2007-09-24T18:42:00.001Z

The Path

2007-09-24T16:02:00.001Z

Indoors at the Academy, Aberdeen

2007-09-24T16:00:00.001Z

indoor lights at the Academy, Aberdeen, originally uploaded by lrkcho.

Railings

2007-09-19T20:40:00.001Z

2007-09-19T20:35:00.001Z

2007-09-19T20:15:00.001Z

Mostly Geometric

2007-06-12T22:22:00.000Z

Star

2007-06-12T22:16:00.000Z

2007-06-12T22:13:00.001Z

Geometric

2007-06-12T22:10:00.000Z

Misty Looking Philosophical

2007-04-18T23:54:00.000Z

Purple Haze

2007-03-09T14:38:00.000Z

Tree Stump

2007-03-09T14:26:00.000Z

Tree, Spring 2007

2007-03-09T13:03:00.000Z

Aberdeen, Spring 2007

2007-03-09T12:59:00.000Z

Reflections on a Blue Bridge

2007-02-12T01:30:00.000Z

Swirls View from my Back Garden

2007-02-09T16:31:00.000Z

Flame

2007-02-09T15:10:00.000Z

Smile Graph

2007-02-02T12:02:00.000Z

f(t) = test(
t < 0, 5 (cos(2 t), sin(2 t)), t < pi / 4, (-2, 2), t < pi / 2, (2, 2), 3 (cos(2 t), sin(2 t)))
I must try plotting this sometime,
here is the result given.

Misty

2007-01-04T21:51:00.000Z

Seascape

2006-12-31T13:08:00.000Z

Me and My Penguins

2006-12-30T23:07:00.000Z

Duthie Park, 2006

2006-12-30T20:46:00.000Z

Wild Flower

2006-12-30T20:20:00.000Z

Red

2006-12-30T20:09:00.000Z

Star Creation

2006-12-30T20:00:00.000Z

Slains Castle, Cruden Bay.

2006-12-30T19:39:00.000Z

Tinted Blue

2006-12-30T14:25:00.000Z