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Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Wibbly-wobbly gassy-wassy


This one uses all-sky HI data to displace a sphere as well as influence its colour.
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  1. Event Horizon22 May 2018 at 12:22

    Generating esoteric conceptual vocabularies and alternative interpretive mental models. I think this represents a fascinating recombinatory creativity. It is not difficult to imagine someone stumbling across new organisational (physical, material) principles entirely by accident and all just by having the artistic bravery to try new things, to see the world in new ways.

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  2. Dan Weese22 May 2018 at 15:05

    I'm running out of adjectives and superlatives. This doesn't often happen to me.

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