Spiky Ball

I first saw this spiky ball high up on a rotating post in a used car lot somewhere in Florida. Here are a bigger version (256x256, 24 bit, 30f/s AVI, 866 KB), and a really big version (512x512, 2.15MB). Turn on the auto-repeat property in the AVI viewer to keep it running. Conal Elliott Link: http://conal.net/ Compassionate Communication (also called Nonviolent Communication, or NVC) is a simple and profound shift in thinking and speaking habits.  Its purpose is to nurture a quality of connection in which we are inspired to work together so all needs get met.  By connecting on the level of our universal needs, we awaken our natural compassion and support making life wonderful for each other through joyful giving.  NVC helps us to shift away from our deeply ingrained habits of blame, criticism and judgment, to tune into our feelings as clues to what we are needing in the moment, and to make clear requests in a way that will inspire others to want to give to us. Link: http://conal.net/awakeningcompassion/ Pan is an experimental embedded language and compiler for image synthesis and manipulation, based on principles from functional programming. You can get the compiler and do some Haskell programming do make your own effects, or get some of the precompiled effects and twiddle parameters to your heart's content.  It's fun!  Check out thegallery to see what we're talking about.  To understand what's going on, see the papers. The Pan compiler turns descriptions of images and image effects into efficient machine code for use with either a stand-alone program, DirectXTransform for web-page embedding (viewable with IE 5.5 or later), or as a PhotoShop plug-in for use with hosts like Adobe PhotoShop� and JASC PaintShop Pro.  (We have only tried our plug-ins with the latter.) Pan is joint work by Conal Elliott, Sigbjorn Finne, and Oege de Moor. Site page loads: 504,071