Cell Organelles in a Capsule

Cell Organelles in a Capsule
Originally uploaded by galaxygoo1

I'm having way too much fun making these little organelles, for the Maker Faire. The tactile creativity has been rather therapeutic, and I'm feeling better than I have in ages.

I keep getting crazy creative ideas, and I wish I had time to follow through on all of them. Today, I picked up some iron-on transfer paper for the printer. If I have time, I'll print up a bunch of cell diagrams, and decorate the white table cloth we'll use to cover the tables at our booth.

I also picked up some baking/cookie sheets to use as work stations at the booth. Hopefully, this will keep the organelles from rolling away and keep the kids more organized as well :-)

I love the Maker Faire.

Mystic Rose and Whirling Polygons

mystic rose and whirling polygons montage
Originally uploaded by galaxygoo1

Lately, in my spare time, I've been having some fun designing math-based images. These started out with Mathematica. I tweaked the code a bit, and exported bitmap files.

I openly confess that I'm not a designer. I just don't have your standard designer skills. But I do know my way around the Flash authoring environment...well enough, at least ;-)

Anyway, I imported the Mathematica generated bitmaps into Flash, and then started playing around. These are some of the results.