Archives for September, 2009
Witte Singel
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
I spent a few hours yesterday taking pictures along the Witte Singel, one of Leiden’s widest canals that runs around the old city. The plan was to capture the domes of the Leiden Observatory, but as I might have guessed, they’re in the dark. So I concentrated on the canal and the road alongside it.
Before [...]
Young @ heart
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
I joined a tweetup last Saturday in Rotterdam, where six of us had dinner at a restaurant called Bazar, and later 3 others joined us for a concert of Young at Heart, an American choir of elderly people. In fact, the average age of that choir is 80. They sang solo’s, mostly pop songs from [...]
Leiden Observatory, Gravesteen, and Rotterdam
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
This weekend I’ve visited two monuments in Leiden that aren’t usually open and certainly don’t have free guided tours in them. The Open Monumentendag in Holland (it actually spans two days) opens all monuments in Holland and visitors are sometimes free to walk around and are sometimes offered free guided tours. This is a great [...]
Quotients that signify nothing
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Ever wondered how many quotients 4372 has? You’d be surprised! For an even number, it has only 6 quotients: 4372, 2186, 1093, 4, 2, and 1. Not quite a prime, but certainly a good effort!
I’ve misused Processing once again to visually depict something completely useless. How many quotients does a number have? I’ve made a [...]
De Vlietloop
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
I participated today in De Vlietloop, a 5km run in Voorschoten. I heard about it only last week and decided to join the 5km just this morning. I finished somewhere around 25 minutes (exact times aren’t published yet) which was my goal for this run. There were about 200 runners on the 5k (and slightly [...]
Processing
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Even though figures like this one are incredibly simple, there is something about this simplicity combined with randomness that I find very attractive and soothing. Given this algorithm to create blocks with weird angles, and turning the size of the blocks down, a sort of mosaic forms that is equally attractive but slightly less soothing:
Using [...]
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.