A tangenital mix of blogliness, studying the effects of time, change, and chaos
A student in Colorado, looking for some sort of synthesis--the big picture, encompassing all the strangeness in the universe--but willing to settle for the philosophic or poetic lens.
Most of my favorite blogs can be found here somewhere on ScienceBlogs. Here are a few of the other gems out there:
December 29, 2006
Category: Fractals
Even in a snowy winter landscape, I feel as if I'm surrounded by fractals. In order to capture this feeling, I turned to the complex topography of the Mandelbrot set. I added an fBm coloring algorithm, to mimic the soft...
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December 23, 2006
Category: Fractals
In order to create a festive holiday fractal, you don't even need a computer. All you need are a few standard Christmas decorations: glass balls and lights. (Actually, you don't even need Christmas lights, any light source will do.) It's...
Posted by Karmen at 1:07 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 20, 2006
Category: Riding the Waves
What do you do when stuck at home in a blizzard? Why, build a snow fort, of course: And, inside, to wish you a Merry Winter Solstice, is the king of the fort, Roland:...
Posted by Karmen at 9:56 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate
The mother of all logarithmic spirals is focused right over my head. Check it out: Basically, moisture is being drawn from the Gulf of Mexico and blown to the northwest. There, it climbs the slopes of the Rockies, where it...
Posted by Karmen at 2:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 19, 2006
Category: Complexity
I get strange searches from google or yahoo all the time, from queries about facial hair to blowing things up. It isn't too unusual for a search engine to come up with sites unrelated to the original query, so I...
Posted by Karmen at 5:43 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 17, 2006
Category: Riding the Waves
Finally! Well, sort of... my caricature, along with all the other ScienceBloggers, appears in the middle of the next issue of Seed Magazine, and also here. You'll find me lurking off to the sides, looking sort of evil. ;-)...
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Category: Fractals
I'm a bit late on the Friday Fractal this week, mostly because I've been busy with my son's 6th birthday party. Since Roland adores these fractals almost as much as I do, I told him he could make this week's...
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December 13, 2006
Category: Complexity
After seeing the all the responses to the spirituality survey, this week, I've come to one definite conclusion: While folks are eager to define categories, they don't like being fit into them.
Posted by Karmen at 8:58 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 11, 2006
Category: For the Love of Wisdom
The other day, in response to a meme, I confessed to being a theist. I seem to have chosen a good time to do this, as many of my (non-theistic) fellow ScienceBloggers are discussing the matter. (Here and here...
Posted by Karmen at 6:49 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 8, 2006
Category: Fractals
Be it winter or spring, I can find fractals growing all around me. Patterns which seem defiantly simple emerge with branching, crystalline beauty. This week's fractal is a Julia set, transformed with inverse circles, then painted with the colors of...
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December 7, 2006
Category: Riding the Waves
Ken over at Prospero's Books recently tagged me with this prying meme, asking me to list five things about myself that most people don't know. When I first considered the task, I realized there are many things about me that...
Posted by Karmen at 8:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 6, 2006
Category: Colorado
After the skies cleared this week, I headed out to nearby Standley Lake to get a few winter photographs: Standley Lake, with shores covered in snow and a snow-capped Longs Peak in the distance....
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December 2, 2006
Category: Fractals
Fractal snow: is it the static on your TV screen, or every skiers dream?
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