Encyclopedia Britannica on laser eye surgery (or LASIK, laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis):
“laser-based eye surgery commonly used to correct nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), and astigmatism. LASIK eye surgery was developed in the early 1990s, when ophthalmologists combined the technique of keratomileusis, in which the cornea is removed, frozen, reshaped, and replaced, with the technique of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK), in which a laser is used to reshape the cornea.”
I personally am short sighted, according to my optician directly as a result of neglecting to take breaks when using computers.
Just letting y’all know I’m still knocking about. Working on some more panoramas, and some more random illustrations.
I saw an info-graphic this week done in univers condensed and as I was looking at it all I could think was “my god, I’m being shouted at!” So I did this in response:
“The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous circumpolar distribution in the Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the Odobenidae family and Odobenus genus. It is subdivided into three subspecies: the Atlantic Walrus (O. rosmarus rosmarus) found in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Walrus (O. rosmarus divergens) found in the Pacific Ocean, and O. rosmarus laptevi, found in the Laptev Sea.”
Note how the plural of “Walrus” is in fact “Walruses” and not “Walri”. This is because the word has modern germanic roots and not classical latin.
“Anatidaephobia is defined as a pervasive, irrational fear that one is being watched by a duck. The anatidaephobic individual fears that no matter where they are or what they are doing, a duck watches. Anatidaephobia is derived from the Greek word “anatidae”, meaning ducks, geese or swans and “phobos” meaning fear.”
Now feast your eyes on this:
A duck playing in a saucer of milk, painted with 2 red stripes, carrying a mars bar in one of its wings, with a man of 56years old watching him.
“The most massive animal ever to have lived, a species of baleen whale that weighs approximately 150 tons and may attain a length of more than 30 metres (98 feet). The largest accurately measured blue whale was a 29.5-metre female that weighed 180 metric tons (nearly 200 short [U.S.] tons), but there are reports of 33-metre catches that may have reached 200 metric tons. The heart of one blue whale was recorded at nearly 700 kg (about 1,500 pounds).”
The Whale of Time is the master of time as we perceive it. It swims in the sea of continuüm and is married to the Walrus of Space.
Hugin isn’t anything new, but I’ve only just tried it for the first time today and I have to say I’m very impressed. The process of creating a panorama with Hugin is beautifully simple and quite straight forward. It involves loading pairs of images and specifying points that ought to match up. That’s about it, Hugin then does it’s best to align the images according to your lens’s horizontal field of view angle and the points you specified, and allows you to crop the resultant image.
And what’s wonderful about this project is that it’s open source. There’s a ton more options to customise how it handles your images, and even a command line utility. All in all, a great piece of software. I’m planning on experimenting with PTGUItoo, which is based on the same library, Panorama Tools.
Panorama of New York from the top of the Rockafeller Centre
“Who’s” means “Who is” or in some instances “Who has”. If you would like to indicate possession of something by someone described in a sentence as “Who”, the correct word is “Whose”.
In the meantime, enjoy this drawing about drugs.
Seeing as though one of the reasons I decided to take the plunge and start a personal blog was to start doing more creative stuff for the sake of it, I am now going to try and do at least 1 sketch every week and post it on here. More often than not, it will be pretty random in it’s subject, that’s just me.
I’ve always been interested in pinhole photography, but the process in the traditional sense (with 35mm film) has always put me off … for what it’s worth, it’s quite a lengthy and tedious process!
Then I noticed the body cap for my SLR, and thought “hey, if I could put a really small hole in the center of that then I’ve got a pinhole camera!”
So I’ve gone and done it. I’ve started a personal weblog.
Will it last?
Will I update it?
Will anyone read it?
All relavent questions, and perhaps in a few months time I’ll be able to answer it. In the meantime, I do have the best intentions for this blog. I’m working on a few tutorials, and I’m going to post bits and bobs of information that I find interesting as and when I come across them.
