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Andriyko Podilnyk on unsplash.com. https://unsplash.com/photos/WjJmdcpA4Eg     Inward with the Droste Spiral     The photo above by Andriyko Podilnyk looks up a fancy stairwell. …

Layered Shapes I’ve started working with another meaning-bearing aspect of image-joinery, the silhouette. Even with plain metal cookie cutters you can tell an Abraham Lincoln …

  Two photos from unsplash.com. Church by ioana-cristiana-gT-b_BSE81I-unsplash. Ship by dylan-shaw-30Oov5eaSso-unsplash.   Using Photoshop Paintbucket Tool and Patterns to Make Abstractions from Photos In today's …

LuxDraw by Norbyte   Couple of months back I bought the app LuxDraw from Norbyte. It offered to let me draw overall patterns. I’m a …

Including a Motif     Every once in awhile I come across an image -- you can see it in the first image here, 4 …

Blue Light     Started playing with this photo of a blue light along with other textures.com and Unsplash images that were in a folder.

The App Girih   This isn’t the feature I’d planned but I have yet again (again again again…) had my Apple password go incognito. Twenty-some …

Tile Photos FX, puzzle-cut mode   First I got the idea to use the software to make my own Tangrams set. So I started with …

The App Scale: Beautiful Fractals   I downloaded for free from the Apple App Store a lovely nicely-featured little app for Fractals. Michael Fogleman [ https://www.michaelfogleman.com/ ] …

Torso Incognito   Hereby hangs a tale. A decade ago I downloaded a file, The Venus of Cnidos. Maybe she was an Aphrodite? I was …

3-D Materials   I enjoy mining files designed for 3D software and then using them in 2D digital images. The “wrong” way.

Photoshop Grids Awhile ago I inadvertently turned on Photoshop’s preference for placing a grid over every new file. Some areas had a tighter mesh than …

Cutting Up Art with the App Tiles FX   Last Playground I was playing with equations from Graphing Calculator and seeing how Apple Motion might …

Playground 081020   This is the third collection of video tries in Apple’s Motion. I like how I’m progressing. But today I downloaded something small …

Stacked math movies   Last Playground I was playing with equations from Graphing Calculator and seeing how Apple Motion might put them into animations. Today …

Visual Math and Video Dance I’ve recently returned to two old favorites -- the math visualization program Graphing Calculator and the video effects editor Apple …

Interference Effects moire [moiré] n. an independent usually shimmering pattern seen when two geometrically regular patterns (such as two sets of parallel lines or two …

Years of Trying 3D Effects I've been trying to connect with 3d capabilities since some time in the '90s. Here's a smattering of examples over …