Piccies

Skytest
This sort of abstract picture was rendered in Pov ray and uses a bluish color scheme. It started out as a simple throw-away test image for the new 3.1 povray, but somehow its simplicity ended up looking nice. Pov ray is really great for making nice clouds, especially when you use a plane instead of a sphere for a cloud layer.

Absence
I was just messing around with homemade distortion algorithms on mesh2 objects in POV-Ray when I stumbled onto a look I liked. Then I added the text and the styled mask to finish it.

Facet_torus_4
Here is one of those twisted torus objects in the style of David Fontaine. A shape of glass with a metal frame is twisted into a coil which in turn is bent until it wraps around to form a torus. An attempt at an animated version can be found here (~349K).

Techno_09
For this picture I took a break from POV-Ray and worked instead in a 2d paint program. This one came out in sort of an abstract style.

Dest
This is a strange sort of landscape, set on a possibly alien world. Interesting textured forms, darkly colored, circle an image-mapped sphere, which rests on snowy ground. The picture is kind of dark, so room lighting and monitor gamma may work against it.

Dest_a
Another view of the same scene as the preceding picture. In this picture, the camera has been pulled way back and up in to the air, pointing down at the complex. What a difference a camera angle makes.

Dest_b
A third view of the same scene as the preceding two pictures.

Dunzar
This is a wallpaper made for a litestep theme. The 4d fractal looks real cool but renders real slow.