I cut 2 45° pie pieces from the original picture and duplicated them to create the full circle. Then in the 4 corners I placed a mini version of the original picture. It looks quite different.

wpec77 - tree kaleidoscope

01/02 2001

Earth Quilt

I came across 'the sunrise over the earth' graphic from the movie 'Space Odyssey 2001' and had to try out making it into a kaleidoscope. At a craft TV show I saw somebody use that idea with patterned paper and now I wanted to try it out on the computer.

I scanned a graph paper circle and cut out 30, 45 and 60 degree segments. Then I superimposed them onto my graphic and cut that out and then duplicated it until it made again a full circle. Next I cut out the center of the new graphic and placed the original image into that center.

I liked the graphic so much that I had to take it a step further and by putting it through some filters and reassembling it I ended up with a 'virtual' quilt.

original picture

earth quilt

19/02 2001

My Eye Kaleidoscope

Following the same idea as the earth quilt I was using a closeup picture of my eye that I had taken with my webcam. I find it amazing what can be done by taken segments of a picture and arranging them in a kaleidoscope fashion. The pearls around the picture are my pupil.