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Continue reading →: Moiré patterns as art: an unexpected discoveryWay back in 2001 I was playing around in Photoshop on the family mac desktop at the time, and found a way of creating flowing shapes that I still use to this day, and which I have not seen anyone else do in quite the same way. This was the…
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Continue reading →: Forget-me-notA messy photomanipulation for fun, with two base images as usual: a student walking between ruined buildings, and a macro of forget-me-not flowers. Spilled color / burnt film texture and a moiré underpainting (last image in series). Embracing both inherent blur and rough bucket-fill edges. Looking forward to spring. Listening…
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Continue reading →: Annapurna CircuitAnother piece with nature + technology elements, this time with a Motorola MC68012 processor from the 80s and a sweeping view of the Annapurna mountains. I have made many pieces like this before, almost identically, but haven’t tired of it yet. It is an easy escape: The moiré waves overflow off…
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Continue reading →: Motherboard + chicoryStatement: An old ASUS motherboard photo plus a chicory inflorescence. First full image is flush with vitality and movement, while the next is a deconstruction to evoke torn up flowers and fabric. Maybe this is a botanical pressing saved to file, then excavated and found to be corrupt later. A…
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Continue reading →: If you can for-each, you can doParallel! Parallelization in ROne of the common complaints I hear about R as a data analysis language is its relatively slow speed, compared to the C at its foundation or other, lower-level programming languages (C family, java, fortran). For-loops can be incredibly slow! They do get the job done eventually, serially (one task…
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Continue reading →: Multi-plotting biological data: just one solution with R ggplot & cowplotI have a conference coming up in two weeks, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), where I will be presenting a technical poster in the bioinformatics section. The code behind the graphs will be on my github here. For this post I’d like to focus on my ggplot code…




