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Ripon Cathedral Postcard
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Tide marks
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High tide marks in my coffee cup.
My Flickr Favs
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Lock water, Canal Walk 3rd April 2011
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Lock water, Canal Walk 3rd April 2011
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Pictures from my walk along the length of the Ripon canal.
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.
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?
Kensington Orbit Optical TrackBall
All I need now is a Missile command style game :)
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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Fractal Lab lets you create 3D WebGL fractals that you can explore
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.
Fractal Lab Introduction from subBlue on Vimeo.
Glass Brick Abstract
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Abstract pattern shown in a glass brick
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