The Wolfram Demonstrations Project published a program I wrote in Mathematica code that visualizes recursive formula attributed to Peter de Jong: It can produce beautiful nontrivial structures called attractors. Click on the picture to go to the Wolfram demonstration page where you can animate and interact with this program.
Rustic Staten Island: from lake to ocean
This is a bike ramble though the mixed urban-rustic environment of Staten-Island, third largest yet least populated borough of New York City. I GPS tracked and photographed this trip with iPhone 3G. It starts in the Silver Lake Park and ends on the remote cape of Great Kills Park. The ramble goes via neat Howard […]