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Friday, 4 July 2008
Infinite Regression (1600 x 1024)
This is a screenshot showing my desktop background, the album cover of Less Than Jake's new album entitled GNV FLA (an abbreviation for Gainesville, Florida - as the album consists entirely of songs about their hometown), with my Start Menu replacement ObjectDock showing my icons, with the mouse hovering over Media Player Classic, revealing its name in a font called Ismini, which is made up of greek letters. The resolutuion is 1600 x 1024 on the new widescreen monitor I mentioned in yesterday's post. It's a rarity for me to be able to refer to a post (in another post) as yesterday's post as it's usually a lot longer between posts. I'm hoping to make my posts a lot shorter but much more frequent. Anyway, here's the picture:
When viewing this picture, I had the idea of hovering over the same icon in the same place, and taking another screenshot. I did this a few more times and I really wanted to make an Infinite Regression, so I did it about a hundred more times until the Less Than Jake background was barely visible and thought that was just about enough (click for Flickr then go to Fullsize):
I love the colours in this; the way they all sweep towards the centre of the image, and the way each icon and character starts off crisp and clear around the edge and becomes less and less so until you can't make them out at all and they even become too small to count. See how each picture is directly proportionate in size to the one it is directly inside, and that the scale factor decreases geometrically? I think it's pretty awesome.
This image also makes an optical illusion - do you see a pyramid-type shape (i.e. a 3D object with the point at the top in the middle) - or do you see the inside of an object, like a corridor with the door at the end that you can barely make out? Personally I see a corridor, but I can just about force myself to see the outside version.
I've been working on the new site today. I'm getting closer to it being finished.
I mentioned Less Than Jake earlier, they're a band I've liked since was about 13 and were the first band I ever saw live (at the Octagon at Sheffield University). I've just bought tickets to see them in Manchester on my 20th birthday! They're doing a UK tour and will be playing at the Academy at Manchester University, 5 minutes from where I will be living! I look forward to it! The new album is great. I recommend it.
I'm off to Manchester tomorrow morning for a Euphony training seminar led by Rick Smithies, who's given great support to me over the last few months. Then I'm meeting up with Paul and the Manchester parkour guys for some training in the afternoon before getting the train back to Sheffield for a night out at Owlerton Stadium (dog racing track) provided by Esporta, where (until recently) I worked as a lifeguard.
More to come soon. Watch this space!
Labels: Computers
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 22:50 
