" The scientist does
not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he
delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. "
Henri Poincaré (1854 - 1912) in "Science et méthode" (1908)
KnotsBag 2.1.0 (Mac, windows & Linux)
With KnotsBag you will be able to create beautiful knotwork by just clicking on points. You just have to create a graph. For that you create points with the mouse and you link the points with one of the four different links available. KnotsBag makes the knot from the graph. You can adjust the colours, the widths etc. before exporting in .svg for Inkscape or Illustrator (or .ai) to polish your work. I wanted to develop this software after reading the paper "Celtic knotwork"of Christian MERCAT, Scientific American "Exotic mathematics", April 2005. I recommend visiting his website http://www.entrelacs.net/ .
SeamlessMaker 1.3.3 (Mac, windows & Linux)
With SeamlessMaker 1.3 you can apply amazing and beautiful effects very easily like Droste effect (recursive picture), hyperbolic tilings in the style of Escher, kaleidoscope, mandala, conformal map (topography, projection), tiles, dithering, four-color decomposition (CMYK), cartoon, painting, anaglyph, textures ... You can make endless zoom movies ! You can also enhance your photos with a large choice of tools: levels/curves, a fine black & white filter, sharpness with 8 bands for 8 scales of details (very powerful), white balance, barrel/pincushion distortion, perspective, blur (to reduce colorimetric noise in a&b layers), gradient, Sobel ...
EscherLike 1.3.2 (Mac, windows & Linux)
With EscherLike you will be able to draw all the periodic tilings of the plane (93 different tilings+ 17 variations !) and make beautiful drawings in the spirit of the work of Escher. You can export your work in .svg file format and open it in Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape or GIMP.
Movie2FlipBook (freeware Mac OS X) To make a flipbook from a movie (MPEG, AVI, DV ...)
GroovyTerming (freeware Mac OS X) To play with the terminal (copy, delete and move files/folder visible or not).
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KnotsBag 22 € (≈ 28 USD) Mac+Win+Linux |
SeamlessMaker 22 € (≈ 28 USD) Mac+Win+Linux |
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