Vine To Vine
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Helmet - Unsung
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A 2-coloring of what results from playing connect-the-dots with the complex numbers zn, for 0 < n < 140, as z varies from ei2.9531 to ei2.96104.
Mathematica code:
ListAnimate[Table[ Graphics[ GraphicsComplex[ Table[ {-1^n*Sin[n*a], 1^n*Cos[n*a]}, {n, 0, 139}], Polygon[Table[i, {i, 1, 139, 1}]]], PlotRange -> .55, ImageSize -> 500],{a, 2.9531, 2.96104, .00026}]]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3q7u9j9Hq1qfjvexo1_500.gif)
A 2-coloring of what results from playing connect-the-dots with the complex numbers zn, for 0 < n < 140, as z varies from ei2.9531 to ei2.96104.
Mathematica code:
ListAnimate[
Table[
Graphics[
GraphicsComplex[
Table[
{-1^n*Sin[n*a], 1^n*Cos[n*a]},
{n, 0, 139}],
Polygon[Table[i, {i, 1, 139, 1}]]],
PlotRange -> .55, ImageSize -> 500],
{a, 2.9531, 2.96104, .00026}]]
Experience one (spectacular) day in orbit around Jupiter
1. The sun has just come out from behind Jupiter while the thick atmosphere of the planet is illuminated in a glowing ring.
2. A few hours later, the sun appears to have moved to the right, lighting up the landscape brightly.
3. A little over ten hours into Io’s day and Jupiter is in its first quarter phase.
4. Halfway through the day, the sun is now behind us. We can see the tiny shadow of Io on the cloudtops of Jupiter.
5. Ten and a half hours later and the sun has now set below Io’s horizon. Jupiter is in its last quarter phase. A distant volcano has begun erupting and the gasses it is releasing into Io’s thin atmosphere are glowing in the dense radiation field that surrounds Jupiter and Io.
6. Near the end of the day and the sun is just below the left horizon. It will be rising soon only to disappear again behind Jupiter.
Heavenly haze: Remarkable rainbow cloud towers over Mount Everest
Psychedelic: The phenomenon is caused by light reflecting off tiny ice crystals inside the body of the cloud’s water vapour.
“Hovering in the sky, this rainbow cloud over Mount Everest took an astonished astronomer by surprise.
Oleg Bartunov, 51, caught the spectacle on camera during a Himalayas expedition in Nepal.
His two images show almost the whole spectrum of the rainbow in a natural event rarely recorded at Mount Everest.
The phenomenon is caused by light reflecting off tiny ice crystals inside the body of the cloud’s water vapour.”
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