Following is a Junocam Perijove 8 image of Jupiter I've submitted for publication on the Juncom web site. The image processing was done using RawTherapee, Adobe Photoshop, and a Processing program I wrote.…

Recently I had to do a complete re-install on one of my laptops that was running Ubuntu Linux. Consequently I had to re-install all my programs.

As a part of re-installing Processing I decided to create an installation tutorial explaining the steps I performed. So for those interested, check out my tutorial Installing…

Here is a fascinating video on the charting of western culture. Quoting from the page "Culture spreads through people, but how does that really happen? This data visualisation from Nature Video charts the movement of 120,000 prominent cultural figures – predominantly European and North American – between 600 BC and 2012 CE, by plotting lines between where each one was born and died. The resulting map reveals not only how religion, technology, resources and mass migrations entwine with the…

After six months of not writing any graphics programs, last week I dove back into the process by writing a Processing program that combined particles, a variety of force fields, and masking.

The program began simply (which is the best way to begin any programming project) and acquired added flexibility and complexity as more functionality was added. The particle image shown above…