Saturday, August 26, 2006

FIIR Oshodi


FIIR Oshodi
Originally uploaded by rabinal.
Ted Jefferies had the idea for, set up, built, and was the first director of, the Federal Institute of Industrial Research in Nigeria. It is located at Oshodi, which is close to Lagos Airport. This is an early picture. There is a link here to Margaret Jefferies' 1951 Nigeria Trip diary, which predates this picture and the building of the institute, by several years.

quartic mandelbrot 060703


quartic mandelbrot 060703
Originally uploaded by rabinal.
MGJ sent me a link to visionsofchaos, whose software generated this image which comes top of the popular/interesting rank at www.flickr.com/photos/rabinal/

I am now trying to recover some old C programs, by writing a new image driver for them using GD and the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C/C++ at Bloodshed (google it).

The original chaos work and fractal generation dates from the early 1980s, before I became Editor of the IJE.