New Digital Cloud Collage CW35

The scanner has taken another turn. Rather than leaving the sky empty around the clouds, the script now fills it with concentric contours derived from the sky itself, which then merge with the cloud contours already being traced. The result is fascinating, psychedelic, and mesmerizing. The boundary between cloud and sky, the very thing the…

The cloud scanner has grown into something worth a version number. After further tweaking of the detection, Sky Scanner 2.0 now recognizes clouds at a much finer granularity. Thin contours trace each cloud’s outline, while hatching fills in and identifies its mass. I also played with the 3D grid to implement different hatching styles, and…

Copper Clouds is a new animation and an homage to Rutherford Chang’s Cents, the richly symbolic collection of 10,000 scanned one-cent coins inscribed as Bitcoin Ordinals. The penny makes the homage fitting. Across more than a hundred years in circulation, inflation has drained it of practical worth while collectors have learned to treasure it. The…

On a recent flight, I encountered a tropical thunderstorm and documented it from the plane. I have flown several hundred flights over the past decade and have seen my share of thunderstorms and hurricanes from above, but this was by far the most spectacular storm I have witnessed and recorded. The frequency of the lightning…