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Some street photography of Thirsk market.

At least no one approached me to stopped taking pictures under "terror laws".

Deep Mandelbrot, originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery.

Looks a bit like a virus

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I’m in the process of scanning in some of my Dad’s old slides and I came across a selection he took from his visit to Le Mans in 1968, two years before I was born.

Here’s what I’ve scanned so far, can’t wait to see what else is in the slide box labeled “Le Mans Sept 1968”

The full set can be seen on Flickr

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Week 17 Stained Glass
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

One of the stained glass panels my mum made

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Day 28 Tired
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Day 28 of my 365 self portraits project

365 days of Alastair

Created with Context Free

Alastair’s Fractals Main Page,
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© Alastair Montgomery 2008

Initial Design

Created with this script
startshape crystals

rule crystals {
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 }
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 r 90}
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 r 180}
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 r 270}
}

rule crystal {
blob {}
crystal {s 0.5 y 0.75}
crystal {s 0.5 x 0.75}
}

rule blob {
SQUARE {}
blob {s 0.9 b - 0.1 r 5}
}

Add an extra layer of recursion

startshape gem

rule gem{
crystals {}
gem { s 0.8 r 10 }
}

rule crystals {
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 }
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 r 90}
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 r 180}
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 r 270}
}

rule crystal {
blob {}
crystal {s 0.5 y 0.75}
crystal {s 0.5 x 0.75}
}

rule blob {
SQUARE {}
blob {s 0.9 b - 0.1 r 5}
}

Or with this change create a spiral effect

startshape gems

rule gems{
8 * {r 45} gem {}
}

rule gem{
crystals {}
gem { s 0.8 r 10 x 2.5}
}

rule crystals {
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 }
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 r 90}
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 r 180}
crystal { h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000 r 270}
}

rule crystal {
blob {}
crystal {s 0.5 y 0.75}
crystal {s 0.5 x 0.75}
}

rule blob {
SQUARE {}
blob {s 0.9 b - 0.1 r 5}
}

Finally add some colour and change the angle

startshape gems

rule gems{
8 * {r 45} gem {h 81.87 sat 0.8642 b 1.0000}
}

rule gem{
crystals {}
gem { s 0.8 r 25 x 2.5 h +25}
}

rule crystals {
crystal { }
crystal { r 90}
crystal { r 180}
crystal { r 270}
}

rule crystal {
blob {}
crystal {s 0.5 y 0.75}
crystal {s 0.5 x 0.75}
}

rule blob {
SQUARE {}
blob {s 0.9 b - 0.1 r 5}
}

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Fractal tree with spikes, originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery.

Fractal tree created in Context Free using the script below.

More context free art




Here is the script, just change the “r -40” to “r 40” to generate the other image.


startshape spin2

rule spin2 {
spin {}
spin2 { r -40 x 1.5 y 1 s 0.9}
}

rule spin {
spikes {}
}

rule spikes { spike {hue =1 sat =0.8016 b =0.9502} }

rule spike { point { } spike { r 10 s 0.95 hue +1 } }

rule point { CIRCLE{} point { y 0.1 s 0.96 sat -0.005 }}


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Context free tree edit, originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery.

Created with Context Free and edited in the Gimp

Script used to create this below.

startshape forest

rule forest {

4 * {r 90} trees {}

}