I wish I was brave enough to eat live scoprions.
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I’m in Beijing presenting a paper, and staying in a really amazing hostel.
I like this take on breakfast:
‘muesli with fruit and yoghurt’
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yoghurt and icecream topping on a bed of sliced apple and banana, topped
with raw oats and decorated with a sprig of parsley!?
These ingenious mirrors allow you to see how a new hairstyle will look on your own face.
What will they think of next!
Funny, mirrors seem to crop up in my life increasingly these days.
I was in Berlin at the weekend hanging out with Julian Gough and spotted this gimmicky product in a shop:
Jelly Lenses are minature self adhesive special effects filters that attach to your camera phone (or to a digital camera, as long as the lense is less than about 10mm across).
The lenses have a range of effects- ’star cut’ and multi filters, coloured gradations and vignettes- but my favourite is the closeup lense, allowing your camera phone to ‘macro’ focus on small objects ~20-30mm away.
Of course the depth of field is shallow and the chromatic abberation (rainbow fringing) is intense but I still think this is a good product, well worth the price at €1.95!
See the photos on flickr and judge for yourself.
These photos are produced first as 360° panoramas, and then remapped using a Gimp plugin, Mathmap.
A conformal transformation is a kind of function defined over all complex numbers that has the basic property of being differentiable, i.e. continuous and smoothly varying. Such a function defines a transformation on the plane that has the property of conserving the angles. This implies that on a very small scale shape is preserved in such a transformation.
Escher eat your heart out!