Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Patterns in Milk + illusion

Today we experiment with milk, food coloring, and soap. We pour milk in a dish and made four dot with different colors. After applying the colors we put in soap and got a reaction. After the experiment, we started looking for optical illusion online.



Soap: This Image was form after applying soap. After soap, you start to move it slowly with a toothpick. After about a minute, this will form.Stairway to Stare: This image look like it takes you to one place but it takes you to a different side. If you look at the first top stair and you walk down the other stair connected to it, the stair will take you to an outside wall of a room.

Day 6: SF Ferry + Fountains

Today we went on a ferry to go to San Francisco. We went to see a water fountain with weird shape pipes. We were also going to go in a building to look at the art around it but that day the workers were protesting so we were not able to enter.
Water Falls: This image was taken in San Francisco. It an image of a water fountain. I chose this image because of the water flow and it square shape pipe. This image has a Chaotic Order to it. As the water falls down violently, it has a similar shape to the other water falling down near it. Also as the water hits the water, it spread the same way as the others.Reflection: This is an Image of the crack in the wall of the water Fountain. I like how their a reflection like as if there a mirror there. If you look closely the water flowing down looks the same and even the gap look alike.Ring Trunk: This image was taken in a mall. It an image of a tree but only it trunk. This image had a nice simple pattern to it with an illusion. It looks like on tree bigger then the other but really they are the same size. As the trunk goes up, it get smaller and then bigger then smaller.5 Layer!: This image was taken in a mall located in San Francisco. I like how the flower and it leaf follow an order. As the leaf branch out from large to small so doe the flower. You can see the flower's petal coming outward from large to medium then small.

Day 5: Leona Gorge+Mandelbrot

Today we went hiking up on Leona Gorge. I was climbing around there and taking image with dark effect and light effect by focusing the camera in darker place to make the lens bring in more light or focus it in a lighter place like the sky for a dark effect when keeping that focus to a darker place.Self-Star: This Image is call a Mandelbrot. We work on this program call fractal explorer. I found a nice shape image and started to zoom in to it. As I zone in, I found a star pattern. As I need zooming in, more star pattern came out. Zooming in to this image, i realize it has a self-similarity shape to it zoom out shape.Shine Butterfly: I took this image with the focus trick i learned from my teachers. What i like about this image is that it bright enough to see the plant and also how the plant is clear while the background look blurry.Rough: This image was taken around the Merritt College. I chose this image because of it rough edge leaf. Like most plants, this one follow an order to how it grows. Each leaf is similar to each other but as it grows, the leaf gets smaller.
Fallen..: I found this flower outside of this one school near Merritt College. I found it like it was about to die but I notice that the flower was still beautiful even went it down.Spike Ball: This image was taken by Merritt College. I chose this image because of the shape it. The image has a simple order shape. It has a triangular shape building around to make a circular shape. This image remind me of a ball of spikes so that why I called it Spike Ball.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Day 4: Fort Funston at the Beach

Today we went to the beach. I felt like I didn't take good picture today. I did saw some great pattern in the water and how when the water goes back there this form of line it makes around the shore but i was not able to capture that image because of the position I was in.Wash Away: This shell was found wash up shore by the wave. I chose to post this image because of the pattern of this shell and how each layer it goes down or up change. The shape of the shell line stay the same but the design on the shell changes. there are similar traits that goes down the shell that can be spotted from the top design.Heart of a Rock: I was capture by this image when my friend notices that this rock was a shape of a rock. After looking at this image, I try to look for a pattern within the rock's peddles. I learn to look for this pattern from Mr. Miller who has a floor tile fill with paint stain in his class room. The stain was made randomly but he notices that some of the floor tile had the same or similar pattern like another tile from either across the room or just a tile away. I found that this image does indeed have that unique pattern as those tiles.Foot Print: This image is like the image of the heart-shape rock, it has similar pattern around. As the pattern are form and are mix with other foot print, it starts to make different image that are in the darker sand. For example, I can see letters form because people's and dog's foot print press on each other making letters or hearts.Aura Mountains: I chose to post this picture because of the mountain hidden by the clouds. What appeal me was how the mountains look like it has a rainbow or an aura above it. As you follow the shape of the mountains, you can see the colors highlighting the top of it.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Day 3: Sierpinski Triangle + Oakland Museum

Today we work on making a Sierpinski triangle. We first tried with our hands to compare our speed with the computer speed. No surprise, the computer iterated faster then we did. After that we went to the Oakland Museum to take some pictures.Triangle Fusion: This image is a triangle after several itration. After I had the triangle completed, I started to make copy of the triangle and started to build something out of it. In the end it came out something like that.

Forest of the Small: This is one of my favorite image that day. It was taken outside the museum. This is a image of a group of fern. I took this image from behind the plant. I wanted to have a image of how it would look if your a side of a grain of rice. The image is simple and it also iterates. As the plant itself grows, it leaf grows the same. On it branch, are similar shape of the plant, following the pattern over and over again.Green Day: This is another image of a fern. I chose this image because I like how the ferns are up close and the way they take up the screen. I see fractal pattern. As you zoom in to the plant, you see the same pattern that the plant take shape of.Purple Star: This image was taken up by the top of the museum. I chose this image because of how it has a similar shape of a star. The pattern in this flower is the strips of dark purple on the pedal.White Sun: This is an image of the back of a leaf. I chose this image because for some reason my camera has a lot of images of fern. As the white sun shine though the plant, you can see the patterns it will grow in to. It will branch out and grow similar figure.

Day 2: Koch Curve + Outside Life

Today we learn about Koch curve and how it a mathematical curve. After the lesson, we went outside and took pictures of the surrounding life around our school and neighborhood.School Life: This image was taken across the street from my school. I chose this image because it was one of the image that pop out to me. This plant has a simple long rectangular shape but a complex pattern. The plant's flower blossom from the bottom of the stem.

Purple Bloom: This Image was taken from the fence by a middle school across the street from my school. I chose the photo because I like how the flower shape around to make a circular ball of flower. It whole figure is simple, you can clearly see the circular shape.