Valley of the Crystals, Mt Roraima, Canaima National Park, Bolivar, Venezuela. The ‘Valley of the Crystals’ is just one of several areas littered with millions of quartz crystals eroded from veins cutting the quartzite bedrock.
Photo credit: Brad Wilson
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Listen wax tag and welcome back note
—Core Memory Dump
A single core memory dump performed on my laptop, with 4GB of physical memory, produced a 6GB file. To make visualizing the raw binary easier for my computer, I split the file into 273 25MB chunks. Each 25MB chunk rendered at 6 bits per pixel (2 bits per RGB color channel) and 336px width yields an image 33,670px long. While going through them one-by-one, searching for interesting visual patterns, I decided to give myself a soundtrack to listen to by rendering the chunks as 8bit PCM audio.
Dual-headed rose
Photo by Speechless-Worlds on Deviantart
Mushrooms growing on toilet paper rolls
More than Human: Animal Portraits by Tim Flach
Ieva, boredpanda.comA renowned London-based photographer Tim Flach presents his work of seven years in an animal portrait book called “More than Human“. By taking striking close-up shots of various animals, Tim attempts to demonstrate how close can…
Nineteen species of fern named after Lady Gaga
By Philippa Warr, wired.co.ukScience
An entire genus of ferns has been named after pop star Lady Gaga.
The genus comprises nineteen separate species of fern which can be found in Central and South America, Mexico, Arizona and Texas and which carry within their…
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3D Origami by Jun Mitani
Caroline Williamson, design-milk.comJun Mitani might be a professor of computer science at the University of Tsukuba but I’m pretty sure he has a Ph.D. in paper folding. He works his magic with the help of algorithms and computer software that he’s developed to crea…
jolly jams 2010 (Taken with Cinemagram)
