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Author Archives: Greg Parker
Gamma Cass 4-framer – PTGui Pro
I just purchased a piece of stitching software – PTGui Pro – for putting together big mosaics (Gigapixel images) of terrestrial scenes. It did a pretty good job of a snow-scene this morning (although the blending wasn’t too good) so … Continue reading
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The observatory is used as the return point in a race straight out of Ben Hur
Louey the black Labrador uses the observatory as the turn around point in his blistering circuit of the garden in this video.
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First snow of the year
First snow of the year here in Brockenhurst – even we didn’t get away with it this time (we quite often do). Taken with a fish-eye lens on the Canon 5D MkII at 8:00 a.m. this morning.
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IOM December 2010 – M38 [NGC 1912] an open cluster in Auriga
I always have a lot of trouble with my imaging at this time of year as there are so many great objects up there to be grabbed and I can only concentrate on one at a time. Auriga is in … Continue reading
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Enneper’s surface high resolution
O.K. so it wasn’t quite the last post for a while 🙂 I just found how to get higher resolution (PlotPoints) working in ParametricPlot3D – now I’m happy!
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Klein bottle
Last one for a while now – the Klein bottle:
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Lissajou’s figures
I guess it is clear from these postings that I haven’t seen a clear sky in a long while 🙁 What is even more annoying is that I’ve just hooked the Sky 6 up to the C11 so I can … Continue reading
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Enneper’s (minimal) surface
Two views of Enneper’s minimal surface created in Mathematica:
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Things are starting to get chaotic
Bifurcation diagram:
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Boy’s surface
And as I’m on a roll – here’s another surface – this time it’s Boy’s surface:
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