h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You are if I recall correctly a fan, nay, a devotee
of the whirled of wood and I thought of you when I saw:
http://m.neatorama.com/2014/07/09/Waves-of-Grain/#!bckRuS
An stop action animation using a plane between shots to create
a fluidic series of images of assorted woodgrains. Trippy.
My link offers another link to the original on Vimeo.

~jwf~

Here's a better (bigger) version and some more info:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/waves-of-grain-video_n_5567927.html

Ah Ha! Pretty good.

... and I bet it was a power plane he used! A collection like that, of millimetres of wood is a norful lot to do, with a hand plane.


Lovely though, eh? The hidden world within, revealed by doing violence to nature - I wonder what the tree thought of it?

Thanks for passing it on, ~ jwf ~