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Elemental Humans

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…

Art at Kui Yuan Gallery

Come visit Kui Yuan (逵园) Gallery Guangzhou (March 4, 2012)—GiselleJ : Their Kaleidoscopic Eyes celebrates and explores art from a woman’s perspective. Opening at The Kui Yuan Gallery on Sunday March 4th, the exhibition remains on view at the gallery through the month of March. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Giselle will be giving…

Long Exposure Photography & a RGB LED Hula Hoop

EndGame

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…

4-Bit XOR Cipher Towers in Minecraft

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…

Affine Cipher in Python

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…