Articles by @aschinchon

Abstractions

August 11, 2020 | @aschinchon

Spinning on that dizzy edge (Just Like Heaven, The Cure) This post talks about a generative system called Physarum model, which simulates the evolution of a colony of extremely simple organisms that, under certain environmental conditions, result into complex behaviors. Apart from the scientific interest of the topic, this model ...
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Watercolors

March 26, 2020 | @aschinchon

Moça do corpo douradoDo Sol de IpanemaO seu balançadoÉ mais que um poema(Garota de Ipanema, João Gilberto) Sometimes I think about the reasons why I spend so many time doing experiments and writing my discoveries in a blog. Even although the main reason to start this ...
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Monsters

February 1, 2020 | @aschinchon

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’Our very street todayBurns like a red coal carpetMad bull lost its way(Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones) After following this easy tutorial, you will be able to create tiled images from a photograph. You may want to use your own portrait or some ...
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Reaction Diffusion

December 28, 2019 | @aschinchon

Sin patria ni banderas, ahora vivo a mi manera; y es que me siento extranjero fuera de tus agujeros (Tercer movimiento: Lo de dentro, Extremoduro) The technique I experimented with in this post is an endless source to obtain amazing images. It is called reaction-diffusion and simulates the evolution of ...
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Colonizing Franky

October 3, 2019 | @aschinchon

Y otra vez me arranco despacito, al sentir que nada necesito (Locura transitoria, Extremoduro) One of my favorite sites in the Internet is algorithmic botany . It’s always a source of inspiration for me. I recently discovered there the space colonization algorithm, concretely in this paper. Originally, the algorithm was ...
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Clustering Frankenstein

August 5, 2019 | @aschinchon

Necesito para estar sentado, un arbolito en este descampado (Desarraigo, Extremoduro) From time to time I come back to experiment with this stunning photograph of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster. I have done several of them previously: from decomposing it into Voronoi regions, to draw it as a single ...
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Rhombuses

July 6, 2019 | @aschinchon

For a lonely soul, you’re having such a nice time (Nothing in my way, Keane) In my previous post, I created the P2 Penrose tessellation according to the instructions of this post. Now it’s time to create the P3 tessellation following the same technique I described already. This ...
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Kites and Darts: the Penrose Tiling

June 3, 2019 | @aschinchon

Agarrada a mis costillas le cuelgan las piernas (Godzilla, Leiva) Penrose tilings are amazing. Apart of the inner beauty of tesselations, they have two interesting properties: they are non-periodic (they lack any translational symmetry) and self-similar (any finite region appears an infinite number of times in the tiling). Both characteristics ...
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Drrrawing with purrr

March 27, 2019 | @aschinchon

La luna es un pozo chicolas flores no valen nadalo que valen son tus brazoscuando de noche me abrazan(Zorongo Gitano, Carmen Linares) When I publish a post showing my drawings, I use to place some outputs, give some highlights about the techniques involved as well as a link to ...
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Mandalaxies

February 1, 2019 | @aschinchon

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers (Heinrich Hertz) I love spending my time doing mathematics: transforming formulas into drawings, experimenting with paradoxes, learning new techniques … ...
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Spinning Pins

December 19, 2018 | @aschinchon

Condenado a estar toda la vida, preparando alguna despedida (Desarraigo, Extremoduro) I live just a few minutes from the Spanish National Museum of Science and Technology (MUNCYT), where I use to go from time to time with my family. The museum is plenty of interesting artifacts, from a portrait of ... [Read more...]

Flowers for Julia

November 19, 2018 | @aschinchon

No hables de futuro, es una ilusión cuando el Rock & Roll conquistó mi corazón (El Rompeolas, Loquillo y los Trogloditas) In this post I create flowers inspired in the Julia Sets, a family of fractal sets obtained from complex numbers, after being iterated by a holomorphic function. Despite ...
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Crochet Patterns

October 14, 2018 | @aschinchon

¡Ay que ver cómo se estropean los cuerpos! (Pilar, my beloved grandmother) My grandmother was a master of sewing. When she was young, she worked as dressmaker, and her profession became a hobby with the passage of time. I remember her doing cross-stitch, embroidering tablecloths and doing crochet. I ...
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Tweetable Mathematical Art With R

September 6, 2018 | @aschinchon

Sin ese peso ya no hay gravedad Sin gravedad ya no hay anzuelo (Mira cómo vuelo, Miss Caffeina) I love messing around with R to generate mathematical patterns. I always get surprised doing it and gives me lot of satisfaction. I also learn lot of things doing it: not ...
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How Do We Draw a Line?

August 5, 2018 | @aschinchon

She dreams in colour, she dreams in red, can’t find a better man (Better Man, Pearl Jam) Today I bring another experiment based on The Quick Draw! Data from Google, one of my most fortunate discoveries of the last times. The Quick Draw! is a web game developed by ...
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