Tag Archives: organic

2014-09-25
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Los Prismos Basálticos, Mexico. Nature goes blocky.

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2014-08-26
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Cross sea at Île de Ré, France. The waves of two weather systems meet and create a dangerous grid.

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2014-07-16
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Fingal’s Cave in Scotland. Good example of how nature’s hexagonal bias can produce blocky shapes.

2014-06-28
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Devils Postpile, USA. Nature’s own hexagonal tessellations, square blocks and straight pillars.

2014-05-05
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Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. Although humans are arguably the most digital animal, sometimes nature does some very square things.

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2014-01-06
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Crystal text-mode! These are called Bismuth Crystals.

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2013-05-02
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The smallest animation ever! Frame by frame animation with atoms, made by IBM. They say that each atom is like a pixel, but hm. Atoms are not the smallest unit we know of. But pixels are, in computer graphics.

So – these atoms are better described as text graphics!

Watch the video. Pics from here. Thanks to Peter Swimm and LittlePiltrafilla for sharing.

2013-03-07
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The Textile Cone is a venomous cone snail that can kill humans. Some people have called it the Textmode Killer of the Sea. Pic from Wikipedia.

2012-08-08
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Breaking textmode news! The human brain is a grid. Atleast according to this first (?) map of the brain. The Human Connectome Project claim that

the grid is the language of the brain and wiring and re-wiring work by modifying it.

The Connectome book cover is illustrated with a textmodey face, since the idea is that the conditioning of the grid pattern is what creates and maintains our personality.