Free Mood Boards: Horse Themed

I am going to provide 3 free Mood Boards, specifically focused around horses! Mood boards are color palettes generated from images for design inspiration and coordinated themes. For a more in-depth look at mood boards, please see Free Mood Board: Dahlia Pink & Yellow Graphic Design Resources. Other Free Mood Boards include: Cacti Spirals, Mandala […]

Nature Conservation: DNA Detective for Endangered Species

Article Summary The presence of an endangered Australian bird species, the Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae), was detected by trace DNA from a frequented watering hole. It has been established that large animal and plants can leave enough trace DNA in their environment to be able to track their presence in a given location. Water bodies […]

Algorithmic Art: Flowers, Roses and Rhodonea Curves

Algorithmic or algorithm art includes designs generated by an algorithm. Algorithmic artists are sometimes called algorists. I wrote the R script to generate the featured data art all by myself using the concepts of Rose Curves and in the process was able to have an in-depth look into what really happens during the construction of […]

Rare Weather Events: An Iced Beach

What’s Happening Here? These balls or ‘eggs’ form when slushy water freezes around rocky cores in the icy air and they are then rolled around by a low tide, says meteorologist Jouni Vainio Read More Here ‘Ice eggs’ cover Finland beach in rare weather event Thousands of rare ‘ice eggs’ found on beach in Finland

Wash Your Hands | Look What You Made Me Do COVID-19

Wash Your Lyrics I am subscribed to Nature briefings; a quick weekday email summary of the most important developments in the natural world with regards to Science. In the 11 March 2020 edition, WHO had announced COVID-19 to be a pandemic to convince the world to not only take the threat of the virus seriously, […]

Sunset Dreamcatcher Data Art & Free Mood Board

For the last year or so I have been investigating ways in which to create art from mathematical formula and data algorithms. I started off with simple golden spirals and got hooked on how to code and generate other types of artsy visuals using data. Check out my Phyllotatic Spirals and Mandala Dragonflies! It has […]

aRtVerse First Sale | Data Art @ Teepublic!

On the 2nd of February 2020 I made my first sale on my aRtVerse store! I am so stoked that someone liked my Nebula Data Dreamcathcer so much that they would not only buy a product, but a wearable one at that! They say that people were their identities on their T-shirt as a showcase […]

Nature Conservation: The 100 million Euro Action Plan for Declining Insect Populations of Germany

A reported 76% loss of insect biomass has occurred over the last 3 decades. This prompted the federal government to announce a €100 million “action plan for insect protection” Their nine-point plan includes recommendations from leading entomologists: Protection of insect-rich habitats, such as the semi-wild fruit orchards and stone walls of the countryside Phasing out […]

Data Art: Impact Event Radioactive Inferno Asteroid

Impact Event |Flaming & Radioactive Inferno Asteroid Blue Green Black A design inspired by the mysteries of space and collision between astronomical objects, created with specially generated genetic data in R studio using polygon density plots in ggplot2. The initial plot compared the linear relationship of expression levels between two gene sets in RNA data. […]

Phyllotaxis: Maths creates Beauty & Symmetry in Nature + Free Collages & Mood Boards

Last year I started experimenting with mathematical formulas and data algorithms to generate art, specifically using code scripts created in R. The first time I stumbled upon math art in R was when I saw the phyllotaxis patterns project on DataCamp created by the Mathematician A. Chinchón last year sometime. He maintains an extensive blog […]