Messenger of the Gods

I have seen Mercury, the messenger of the gods. (The faint dot forming a right angle with the two bright ones (which are Jupiter and Venus))

Click on photo to see the three planets together.

I has another fractal!

A Barnsley fern, this time. It's not very obvious because of the complexity of the pattern, but it is indeed a fractal. You can just about begin to make out the self similarity in each of the fronds. Click on the image for a better view of the fractal nature of the fern.



That's a natural looking leaf. Generated through maths. How cool is that?

My first Fractal!

A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away), I wrote about fractals and chaos theory on my blog. That was here.

Years on, I finally learnt how to make a fractal myself. And here it is, my first fractal. It is what they call a Sierpinski Triangle.

*The author is now playing 'I'm so glad' by Cream in his head*

Red? Yellow?

This is going to be a pretty small post - just a musing. Been working with photoshop a lot lately, and I've noticed something. The range of colours that lie between purples and cyans is defined as blue. The range of colours that lie between yellow and cyans are defined as green. Both of these ranges are fairly large. However, when it comes to Red, the range is very small. A little one way and you get pinks. A little the other way, and you get oranges. Same with Yellow - a very small range of colours is yellow. I'm talking only about these four colours because RBY are the three primary colours, and RGB is a popular method of colour representation.

Any ideas?