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Animated Factorization Diagrams – Data Pointed. MyHeritage.pl - bezpłatne drzewo genealogiczne, genealogia i historia rodziny. World's hardest sudoku: can you crack it? 3D Fractal Flames by Chiara Biancheri. I’ve been making fractals with Apophysis since late 2008, deeply fascinated by the oneiric feeling so typical of fractal flames, and the intriguing patterns and geometries this software can generate. While I do also enjoy other fractal generating programs such as UltraFractal, Mandelbulber and Mandelbulb3D, I still prefer Apophysis for its higher expressive potential. I’ve been recently focusing on three dimensional flames, with a “photographic” approach and an evident organic and floral inspiration.

A collection of three-dimensional fractal flames created with Apophysis 7X. Author’s portfolio You might also like Comments Michael Dachstein Inspiration junkie :) KiedyMecz.pl. World Statistics, Country Comparisons. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. History.com has a great article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema.

X-rays: just to clarify, Tesla did not discover x-rays, but he was one of the early pioneers in its research. 14 Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People. When you step out the door, you're playing a role. Whether you're a hippie, stock broker, police officer or biker, you dress the way the world expects you to dress, you act the way the world expects you to act. So you can imagine how much more intense this is for celebrities, whose very careers depend on managing a public image down to the molecule.

But even they can't keep the occasional image-shattering photo from leaking out to the public ... #14. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Pool Hustler Via Biography.com There are two kinds of people in the world: those who, when seeing this photo, immediately hear "Werewolves of London" in their heads, and those who do not. And no, this isn't one of those photo ops where a public figure poses with a prop to look like regular folk. Which is amazing, considering that a man who would attempt a shot like that in the middle of a match is probably something of a sore winner. . #13. Via Hawking.org.uk Via Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe #12. Photos.com. Kolorowe pi. Unusual Words. Unusual Words A by no means exhaustive list of rare, obscure, strange and sometimes funny words and their meanings that only seem to crop up in crosswords and dictionaries.

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