If you heat the atoms enough, they will emit light. However, if you put their light through a prism, you get discreet lines, so called emission spectra in the visible region. They are characteristic for each element. For this series, the portraits are overlayed with the emission spectra of each of the displayed elements. The…
I was reading David Cope’s Taking Sides and came across the game, Endgame. The pieces basically move the same as in chess, except no side can take the others’ pieces. Rather the goal is to entrap the other side so that all their pieces are in check and they have no way to move out…
I know what you must be thinking- 4-bit? XOR? Cipher? Towers? o_O First four images are Tower 1 and last four are of Tower 2. Let’s break it down: 4-bit denotes how many values we can have. Since our values are only, tower light on or tower light off (binary), we’re working with a total…
A simple mono alphabetic substitution cipher I used to help me level up my programming/math skills :) Though I would not suggest using it for anything other than education/historic purposes since it is highly insecure (by means of frequency analysis, brute force, guessing or otherwise). From Wikipedia Download: Affine_Encrypt_Decrypt.py Atbash Affine Cipher: a= 25, b…
Guangzhou (July 2, 2011)—GiselleJ : Women, Oral traditions, and Cultural Reflections is the first major gallery exhibition of the artist’s work in China. Focusing on Giselle’s colorful portrayal of women, the show features a myriad of oil paintings which draw from culture, music, and life. Opening at The Redtory‘s E9 Gallery on Saturday July 2nd,…
So when crocheting a sphere one does it in rows- essentially making circles stacked on top of each other (rows) with different radii. To figure out a ‘perfect’ sphere it has to grow and shrink at the same rate as the sin wave. Here is a video that illustrates the the relation of the circle to…