January 2012

Quadrone.org has a nice alternative application and document icon for Mozilla Firebird. Definitely less distracting to the eye than that flame-thing. [via Gary Turner]

July 2003

Radiohead - Hail to the Wing - In AD 2101, war was beginning... [by danelope, via Low Weblog]

Naar Voren: Pixel Art - leuk artikel van Arjan Westerdiep.

June 2003

Stencilling tutorials at Stencil Revolution - don't much care for covering my neighborhood in paint but converting some photos to stencil-like images should be fun... [via Knurpslog]

{fray} drugs - the scar with beautiful illustrations by Witold Riedel. [via prolific.org]

April 2003

I like Friedrich Lohmueller's abstract raytraced artworks... especially the Loops (with pov source files and tutorial).

Revisiting the snowflake theme, in POV-Ray. Source file here.

A random path of large and small cylinders, evenly rotated around the y-axis six times and mirrored to form a symmetrical snowflake.

Trying out texture options, I stumbled upon normal { facets size 2 }, which turns the smooth cylinders into these neat crystal-like shapes; makes me want to reach into the monitor and grab the whole thing, spin it around, feel its weight...

Past snowflake inspired experiments:
- DHTML snowflake generator
- Java-based snowflake generator

A bit of photo tracing fun... click for full version.

Project Dogwaffle - paint program for Windows, of which an earlier version can be downloaded for free. If the Gallery images are anything to go by, this might be a fun opportunity to put the ol' graphics tablet to use again. [via SCC308 Downloads page]

Continuing my self-imposed no-photos-for-one-week rule, I decided to rediscover POV-Ray (freeware raytracer) a bit. The current version has some features I never tried before, like isosurfaces (this rock is one).

It's still great fun simply placing objects, playing around with shapes/parameters and seeing what happens, especially now that I have a PC that can generate images like this in a couple of seconds. When I first tried POV-Ray ten years ago, scenes like this took two hours to render.

Related: You know you've been raytracing too long when...

MrWong's Soup'Partments - giant collaborative pixel art tower, ever growing, apparently... [via sepi.be]

Adding Depth To Illusions [via Low]

February 2003

redscreen.net: Faking the LOMO Effect in Photoshop [via kottke.org]

November 2002

AGAINST THE REALITY - big side-scrolling page of pretty designs and graphics... [via Uren.Dagen.Nachten]

I managed to convert some ancient MSX .PIC graphics of mine into .GIFs.

Filedate: 1990-06-21

October 2002

The Cliff Guy - Cliff Pieces - a very large collection of drawings of characters standing on cliffs, by all sorts of comic artists.
[via t-melt.com]

September 2002

VisualJournalism [via EVHEAD]

onfocus.com has been doing some slick tracing-over-in-photoshop. Been meaning to try this myself... to try and use more of the many photos I take as source material for other artistic expression.

Cool isometric illustration in this Wired article. [via...somewhere]

August 2002

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Random Google-powered PDF-2-HTML glitch art*:
- TROPICAL UARNING PERIOU
- THUPICAL CYCLONE

(Found by searching for "maxihum", of all things.)