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Category: Art • Cephalopods • Gadgets
Posted on: December 15, 2006 12:06 PM, by PZ Myers
Can you bear the beauty? It's another week's worth of random cephalopod imagery.
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I think the three octopodes on the line are just catchin' some rays. Man. Admiring the view and such. Like bird on a telephone wire.
Posted by: Ithika | December 15, 2006 12:50 PM
I love that lamp in the first picture.
And now I want an octo-cat for a pet, too. Surely, there's a creationist somewhere researching that particular hybrid?
Posted by: Dan | December 15, 2006 12:58 PM
Just (under?) a week to cephalopodmas now. I thought it might be useful to have some repeating cephalopod patterns for paper, fabric or computer screen backdrops and website pages. An octopod was the easiest to do with my existing software. So I made a few sizes in basic pale (for black lettering on top) and dark (for white lettering) shades of grey. Though anyone with suitable software can re-tint them however they want.
The names are coded W, for whiter shades of pale and K, for inky blacK (with B already being taken for blue!) and pixel sizes of 48, 64, 72, 80 and 96. Eg:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/_SEF_/repeat/xy/octopod_W48.gif
I also uploaded a basic black and white line version in case anyone really does want to try and print some octopod paper or mess with the design themselves. It's only 300 pixels each way, but that's very large on-screen while being ridiculously small on most modern printer resolutions:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/_SEF_/cephalopodmas/octopod_.gif
Posted by: SEF | December 15, 2006 7:06 PM
Where's the Cafe in the "Flickr" photo?
It is brilliant!
Posted by: G. Tingey | December 16, 2006 3:47 AM
Has anyone read the ? and so on. It's a little hard to understand but 'way better than my Japanese.
Posted by: Monado | December 16, 2006 12:41 PM
Has anyone read the description that accompanies the squid drive?
and so on. It's a little hard to understand but 'way better than my Japanese.Posted by: Monado | December 16, 2006 12:44 PM
Continuing with the same repeat pattern, here's a 600px version of the sort of thing you'd need to print some cephalopodmas paper or fabric:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/_SEF_/cephalopodmas/octopod_X600.gif
Here's how a cephalopodmas card of the design might turn out:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/_SEF_/cephalopodmas/card.gif
Posted by: SEF | December 16, 2006 12:46 PM
Anyone who happens to be browsing this, DON'T pass up that lineart work by SEF. It's surprisingly beautiful tiled across my desktop!
Posted by: Xanthir, FCD | December 18, 2006 7:17 PM
Thanks SEF, it is beautifully entrancing. :)
Posted by: justalabtech | December 18, 2006 7:27 PM