The Buddhabrot

Chaos

Nietzsche, in the premise of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, stated Eternal Return, an idea that all things in the universe will recur and all events in one’s life will repeat again, and again, ad infinitum1. Nietzsche’s world was a deterministic one, Newtonian, with tangible objects, and countable sets. Hence, he viewed his universe like a deck of cards, bound to return to a particular shuffle infinitely on infinite shuffles. But all recurrences need not be perfectly self similar. Far older eyes have imagined universes in kalpas, forever repeating...

Brachistochrone

Light is one of the most amazing phenomena in the Universe. It is pure energy and has zero mass. If you could experience a moment as a photon, you would experience eternity in that moment, for light experiences no time of its own (technically you’d experience nothing as psychological experience is time dependent, but lets keep the poetic tone). It is one of the primordial constituents of the Universe and is considered sacred in all religions, ditto physics. Among other things, a path of light is Brachistochrone....

Result: Starry NIght Over Rhone, Neural Style Transfer

Alla Prima

Last month I watched Loving Vincent. The movie was a story of Van Gogh post Saint Rémy, in his final year in Auvers-sur-Oise. The story reconstructed the lonely artist’s mental breakdown from the perspectives of people close to him, well at least they are there in his paintings. Aside from reconstruction in a sense of narrative, the movie was also reconstruction in material. The entire movie comprised of animations of reimagined Van Gogh’s paintings. It recreated 94 Van Gogh’s originals while creating about 67K oil paintings around...