My first visit to Perimeter Institute is nearing its end. While an appreciable amount of physics and related academic thinking is to be uploaded here in the near future, I wish to start with photos of the building itself. Pool Table Untitled Interior Exterior Untitled Interior Geese Alice Room Sky Room Favourite Staircase Foosball Polyhedral … Continue reading Perimeter 1-0: Architectural Impression
Category: randomness
The Bob Doran Museum of Computing – Impressions
The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein Well, to call my visit tonight an impression isn't quite fair. For the entire duration that I've studied and worked at Auckland Science, this display has been here. First curated by Prof. Bob Doran himself, and later in his honor and … Continue reading The Bob Doran Museum of Computing – Impressions
Trying Stable Diffusion by Visualising “Teardrop” by Massive Attack
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Two Late 2021 CGI Artworks
Reunion (3072 × 4096) Medium: Blender Cycles + Hand painting. December 2021. During my freshman year, I imagined a space colony utilizing the material of Enceladus (Saturn II). This new rendition moves the space station off the surface of the moon and bends metal and concrete into a van Braun ring space station design. It … Continue reading Two Late 2021 CGI Artworks
357686312646216567629137 and Friends
Many people close to FWPhys are aware of, in possession of, or about to possess, our first STEM merchandise, the Left Truncatable Prime Pencil. Printed on it is the largest base-10 number that remains prime as you remove digits from the left side by means of sharpening the pencil. US$3 a pair. It's common knowledge … Continue reading 357686312646216567629137 and Friends
How Euler Tackled an innocent-looking integral
For unclear reasons, I really wanted to write down one wacky (read: elegant) calculus exercise tonight -- have you integrated the cotangent function twice? I feel the infinite series are mere toys dancing at the fingertips of Euler, and consider his method to tackle this quite beautiful, my usual attitude towards Euler math. For some … Continue reading How Euler Tackled an innocent-looking integral
[Little Demos] 02 – Home Made Laminar Flow
One of my oldest physics party tricks, now photographed in makeshift home studio.