Months later, I was trying to learn to use Adobe Photoshop and remembered that handbill and decided to try to make a photographic version of the image. I put my hand on a scanner, saved the image, then went to work on it. I don't remember the whole process, but it involved making the background black, scaling and rotating multiple copies of the image on multiple layers, and using the rubberstamp tool to obliterate the seams where the wrists joined the fingers, and finally flattening the whole thing to one layer. IRIC, I spent about 2 hours working on it, mostly because I didn't know what I was doing and had to look up each step as I performed it.
This is the result:
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| Fractal Hand, an L-system fractal |
Blogger shrank the image. The original, is much bigger and more detailed.
Over the years I've had several requests to use the image in books, etc., and I've had a few tee-shirts made that look really great. I wear some of them myself and have given a very few as gifts to special people. I get many complements on the shirt whenever I wear one of them.
Over the years I've had several requests to use the image in books, etc., and I've had a few tee-shirts made that look really great. I wear some of them myself and have given a very few as gifts to special people. I get many complements on the shirt whenever I wear one of them.
Someday I'll create a 3D printable version of this thing. It will probably have to be printed on an SLA or SLS machine to capture the tiniest fingers.
Hi Mark, I would like to use your image for the thumbnail of one of my videos which features L-Systems in music. Of course, you'll be credited in the video description. Please let me know if this is OK with you.
ReplyDeleteLet's see... I don't know who you are, and I don't know what kind of video it you intend to use it in, so I'll have to say no.
DeleteHow many fingers are there?
ReplyDeleteWell, let's see, there are 125 of the smallest hands, each with 5 fingers, so that's 625 right there. Now if you count the next largest hands, there are 25 of those with 5 fingers on each for another 125 fingers. But there's 5 more larger hands, each with five fingers, so 25 more fingers. Finally, the largest hand has 5 fingers. Total is 625+125+25+5=780 fingers.
DeleteKolko tam je ruk
DeleteThere are 125 of the smallest hands, 25 of the next larger size, 5 still larger, and finally, one big one, totaling 156. Or, looked at from the finger count in the previous comment, if there are 780 fingers, there must be 156 hands because each hand has 5 fingers: 780/5 = 156.
DeleteBefore anyone asks, there are 156 thumbs (there are 156 hands...) so there are 780-156= 624 fingers exclusive of thumbs.
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