Been messing with fractals, the last few days.  Here’s one I particularly like.

(click to see it ocean-sized)

ghosts in the machine by ~rosicrux on deviantART

It’s the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. This week there is a celebration and convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center called Star Wars Celebration IV. A featured exhibit at this event is called The Vader Project, in which 66 artists were invited to submit their own version of the Darth Vader Helmet.

Here’s a Flickr gallery with the helmets. Some samples:

In 1956, Maurits Cornelis Escher completed a drawing called Print Gallery. Almost 50 years later, a group of mathematicians at Leiden University, led by Prof. Hendrik Lenstra succeeded in unraveling the mathematical structure of the image.

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