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I'm not an artist by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm pretty
good at whipping computers into doing my bidding. Every once in a
while I whip them into producing stuff remotely resembling "art".
Some of the resulting pieces might even be worth all that disk space
and network bandwidth they take up. Well, almost. (Most pieces were
originally intended to be part of something more complicated that I
then never got around to finishing.)
Some pictures on the left are hyperlinks to larger versions or
other web pages. Some will also animate when you move the mouse
cursor over them, assuming you have JavaScript enabled.
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A random "best-of" image made by Dali, a Java program I wrote that creates random images and movies. There's a whole separate gallery of these images and movies here.
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A room with some funky bookshelves and a view of a strange portal. Made with POV-Ray.
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A mysterious table. Also made with POV-Ray.
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(Animated -- move cursor over
image to start animation)
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The Spinning Head of Corey Kosak, an image that lives on in Forum 3000 infamy. (Corey's head was scanned with a 3-D camera. I munged the resulting VRML by hand and perl script to make this animation with POV-Ray.)
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(Animated -- move cursor over
image to start animation)
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This, of course, lead inevitably to The Zooming Head of Corey Kosak. This one was made in 3D Studio Max. There's also a larger animated GIF, and finally a rather mind-bending large AVI version which you should play full-screen for maximum psychedelic effect. (You'll need a pretty fast machine to pull it off, though.) Getting an infinite zooming animation like this to flow smoothly is more of a pain in the ass than you might think, since the camera's movement has to slow down exponentially at just the right rate.
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The Kosakian Head hovering atop the mysterious table.
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While attempting to make this staff-thingie I semi-accidentally produced this view, which turned out to look a bit cooler.
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An "under construction" GIF with attitude. (It's sort of embarrassing how long it takes me to draw a stick figure with a whip.)
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A fractal created with FRACTINT.
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Useless fact of the day I discovered while messing around with fractals:
as you crawl up the butt-cheeks of the famed
Mandelbrot set's "gingerbread man", you can find N-armed spirals all
conveniently lined up in a row, with N increasing one by one
as you move farther and farther in (presumably indefinitely, or at least
until they become too distorted to recognize). Here's a 22-armed spiral
from that sequence.
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A mildly disturbing image created while I was trying to figure out
how the hell GIMP works. (Unhappy face borrowed from Pink Floyd's "The Wall"
and tweaked.) I'm not sure whether it's a coincidence that I was
starting to fool around with a radiosurgery system for treating
brain tumors at the time I made this.
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