Boney N

We're catching up on our reading.

That's "N" for "Napoleon". The book dates from 1912. (Actually, it's not the sort of book you'd still read from start to finish.)

DNOugh

The poster frame is set at the transition of the two titles.

I have completed the DNA sequences for use on the Leiden University DVD. An adaptation of these sequences is now available on this weblog. (Yes, I consistently assume that anyone would actually be interested in such movies). Note that the movie contains audio (Another Garage Band Midi Action Painting).

Mac users fully equipped with the QuickTime 7's H264 codec are invited to click here (3MB). Others may want to try this tiny QuickTime MPEG4 version (3,1MB). Incidentally, I am working on some convenient procedure to properly service visitors who use Windows machines that are equipped with only a limited set of codecs or do not even have a QuickTime Player installed. That will probably be a Flash player - for some mysterious reason, people are less afraid of Macromedia than they are of Apple. But for now, these versions will have to suffice.


you can hardly see the background image in the final composite (especially when you're using a Windows machine because of the marked gamma difference), so I thought I'd include this separate still image.

"Aw, Tjeez, I DNAw"

Why DNA? "Do Not Ask!"

Yes, I am still at it. We need these animations. The last attempt did not testify to the Intelligent Design of Life as John was so kind to point out. Wilfred thought I had reconstructed a staircase of that particular model that actually brought a factory to the brink of bankrupcy. But I modelled on. For better or for worse. So, like 'em or not, some of these images may actually make it to the DVD we are currently producing. It's the Leiden University project, for which see the Workstation Weblog items "Leiden University Challenge - Asking the questions: Busman & de Gruyter" and "Onder professoren - Leids logboek". Does it look anything like a DNA strand? "Aw, Tjeez, I DNAw". That's right, you don't know, because you've never seen one either! (Was I shouting? Sorry about that.)
Wait. It's "an artist's impression", that's what it is. I'll post the final result tomorrow, most likely, because at the moment the G5 is still crunching my DNA.

DNA Yourself!

"Subscription requests will be carefully examined prior to acceptance."

Okay, so the heroic attempt to outsmart the BBC and produce my own animation zooming in on an X-chromosome and showing, ultimately, the unwinding of a DNA strand has resulted in UTTER failure. The image you see above is the only thing I've got to show for my efforts. The trouble is maths, you see, I was never any good at maths. No, not good with numbers at all. Why, some say I don't even add up!

P.S. d.d. 110905. Check out the absolutely gorgeous and highly illustrative animation from the BBC at [url]http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com[/url], the 24th query result for "DNA", BBC Reference NumberAEMQ510H, the preview of which I dare not even reproduce here. Read the BBC's conditions of use and do NOT distribute the preview.

Quotes From Another Life

Three. Now didn't I score well on the Citation Index?"

Yes, this was me when I was still (happily) stuck in another career. And I am warning you: I will use webspace to publish on such matters as ancient Roman manure. One of these days...

(Should I perhaps try and model a cow?)

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P.S. Found another reference to my academic activities in a word of thanks by Vincent Hunink, who "wrote" or "made", whatever word is more appropriate in this case, a Dutch translation of Cato's De agricultura. This was published in 1996 (Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam). What an amazing impact I have made on the academic world! It's quite dazzling.

Well that's a relief!

I have experimented with the Relief Object, a C4D primitive, as a result of an interesting thread at the Creative COW which started with the question as to how one could create point selections from images. A gentleman called Chris Smith suggested that we stick the image onto a relief object so as to raise the points of, apparently, luminance contours. "Then you can square marquee them in a front view window". Great, we will remember that. Meanwhile, however, I played about with the newly found primitive and Ihave, so far, come up with this image.