The lab section is finally finished. There are just two simple java applets currently: a Brownian motion generator and a geometric series visualization idea. Both applications are not very pretty or stable, lots of work to be done.

The Brownian motion applet is probably the most interesting, if you click “reconstruct” it will generate a new motion. Though the stochastic nature is simple (go North, West, East, or South with equal probability) the visualization is organic and appealing.

I’ll be updating the two applets in the near future, and adding links to their source code (GPL licensed).

While in Emporia VA the other weekend for a wedding, I came across an old sheet metal building. The town was rather …. humble, with its other architecture and this building looked completely out of place in the middle of a desolate main street.

It was fun to play with my new lamy fountain pen, but I still haven’t gotten used to sketching with it. It was a fun, fluid sketch and it was nice not to care about the actual geometry of the building for a change.

A little sketch that I did in my “computation pad” at work.  There is something alluring about female representations of lucifer, I’ve always had a thing for them. Note to self: start studying hand anatomy.

This isn’t nearly as dirty as it might seem to be, it’s just that I enjoy drawing octopi and women. Also, it was a request … kind of. You have to satisfy the fans.

An ink of my parents farm in Maryland. The perspective is a little off, and it probably needed a little more detailing. When I traveled through europe I used to love drawing the architecture, but this is probably one of the first buildings I’ve drawn since then.

My very first pastel. The model is Aishwarya Rai, though the pastel does not really resemble her. I should probably do a more realistic sketch of her sometime, seeming how she was Miss Universe…… My Great Aunt Janey helped me get the basics of pastel usage, and I’ve got some pictures of her in action.

It seems like the only times that I actually make a blog post, is when I destroy my old website and resurrect one from scratch… which, coincidentally, is exactly what I’ve just done.

Solid Sushi is now powered by Wordpress, a robust open source content management system (CMS) that I’ve used before. Actually, I had used it on Solidsushi, but then I wanted to get back to my programming roots and code everything myself (in PHP and MySQL). That nonsense lasted for a year with only a few lonely posts, so I figured that moving back to a conventional CMS would save me programming time and allow me to focus on the content.

I’ve slowly been moving my “favorite” artwork from the old site, hopefully it will all be present in the next week.

The little one is actually my cousin, whom I had the rare chance to visit with. This is one of the first times I’ve had to play with watercolor, it’s a fun medium!  One problem is attempting to scan the original watercolor, all of the pocks and waves in the paper create shadows in the scanned image. Perhaps just taking a picture of the art would work out better.

Midna from “Zelda: Twilight Princess”. This is honestly the first piece of fanart I’ve ever created, it was a hard line to cross… now I’m officially a geek.

Playing around with color a bit…. It seems like a better idea to color images in photoshop, than to spend the effort to vectorize them.