Articles April 19, 2011

Ripon Cathedral Postcard

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Ripon Cathedral Holga-ish by doodle_m
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Articles April 19, 2011

Tide marks

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Via Flickr:
High tide marks in my coffee cup.

Articles April 15, 2011

My Flickr Favs

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My Flickr Favorites

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Articles April 4, 2011

Lock water, Canal Walk 3rd April 2011

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Lock water, Canal Walk 3rd April 2011
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

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Pictures from my walk along the length of the Ripon canal.

Articles March 31, 2011

Ripon Dog Walk 19th March

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Ripon Dog Walk 19th March
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Picture looking into College road in Ripon.

Articles March 30, 2011

Mazda RX8

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Mazda RX8
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

The car to buy when you are having your mid-life crises?

Articles March 30, 2011

Kensington Orbit Optical TrackBall

Kensington Orbit Optical TrackBall, a photo by Alastair Montgomery on Flickr.

All I need now is a Missile command style game :)

Articles March 15, 2011

White Indian Tiger

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White Tiger at a park near Bangalore.

This has the Orton Effect applied the original image can be seen below

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Articles March 9, 2011

Fractal Lab lets you create 3D WebGL fractals that you can explore

via Download Squad by Sebastian Anthony on 3/8/11

Fractal Lab might be coolest demonstration of WebGL and JavaScript that we've ever seen here in the Download Squad bunker. If you've ever studied Mandelbrot sets -- either willingly, or for Computer Science at high school -- Fractal Lab will change your perception of iterative, recursive maths for ever.

At first glance, Fractal Lab isn't immediately exciting -- in fact, when you close the Help dialog, all you get is a blank checkerboard. It's only when you start hitting some buttons that you realize just how awesomely powerful this demonstration is. If you haven't opened the site up yet, do so now. Then hit '3D,' and wait while your CPU renders your fractal design. What you will eventually see before you is drawn using WebGL and the GLSL shading language.

If that wasn't cool enough, you can move around the rendered object! Scroll in and out with the mouse wheel, move around with W and S, A and D. If you have a powerful computer, un-tick 'Preview mode' at the bottom; it'll make everything look rather beautiful.

Then, when you're bored of that, start moving through the tabs: Constants, Fractal, Camera, Colour and Shading. Each and every one will radically change the rendered object, or how it's displayed in your browser. Pick some new numbers (change the 'Fractal type' on the Constants tab!), then hit Recompile.

And yes, if you weren't excited enough about seeing an actual, real-world application of WebGL, you can even save your fractals using HTML5's localStorage feature!

Fractal Lab is a small piece of genius, and hopefully a good sign that more awesome things will soon gush from the HTML5 and Open Web pipeline.

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Articles March 9, 2011

Glass Brick Abstract

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Abstract pattern shown in a glass brick

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