Logo image:
The logo image appearing at the top of each page is a scaled-down version of an image that I generated using my program ConjPic. For a larger version of it, visit The big Logo below. It is a GIF image of about 33.3 Kbytes.
I will summarize briefly how I generated it, to give a brief insight into my major thrust in imaging. It was created without using any prior image, by using a mouse to (a) create seven rectangles, (b) position and distort them, and (c) assign colors to them. From that set of 49 numbers (42 for drawing and 7 for colors), the resulting image was generated by ConjPic by an iterative process involving biased random choices of the rectangles. The mouse was not used to draw any element of the image. Instead, it was used to position rectangles represented by a set of simple equations that were then used (automatically) to generate the image. I was not painting here -- I was meta-painting! In a sense, I was "painting" the equations which would, in turn, paint the image. The 200 bytes of data generated an image consisting of about one million bytes -- a data-compression ratio of 50,000 : 1! Typical GIF compression ratios are 20 or 40 to one. Just bragging!
For much more about this process, click on .
(a) Fractals for the underlying theory, and
(b) ConjurePicture for how the computer program is being developed.
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You can e-mail me at waynerp@sympatico.ca