Daren Scot Wilson

Hi! I'm a physicist/artist, or an artist/physicist depending where I am, and you, to your delight or regret, have arrived at my personal website. What you see now is a temporary place-holder. Bigger better web design is coming soon!

I will have many articles on electronics, software design, 3D graphics, image processing, visual arts, and various other topics, some of them completely pointless.

Links, Galleries, Demos, Online Presence

• Linkedin
• Quora
• Medium where I write articles on various topics at random times.
• Deviant Art - photos, digital art, paintings
• Turbosquid 3D meshes for 3D artists. The Earth land shell one, simple and good for background objects, sells fairly well.
• Stack Exchange my contributor page for all the StackOverflow/StackExchange sites I'm involved with
• Github
• Youtube main channel

In many places around the internet I go by the name DrunkenUFOPilot.

Motion Graphics

Crystal Ball with Scrolling Glowing Text Some people see this and think it's a real physical product. Nope! Just 3D digital art made in Blender.

Tamarack Video UTube title sequence motion graphic

Drunken UFO Pilot like Hollywood sign fun animation I made followng a tutorial on how to make a 3D model of the famous Hollywood sign.

Bird Melt - short animation from when melon-head changed Twitter to "X", made in a sudden inspiration one morning and I gave myself one day, no more, to see how good of an animation I could make. Someday I should try making a fancier more refined version.

Procedural Textures

Science, Math, Image Processing

Fractional Iteration of Exponential Functions

Slides on Fractionally Iterated Exponential Functions and using them for generalizing addition and multiplication to a general operator parameterized by a real number.

PDF paper on same subject, written using Lout in a github repo along with some Python code for playing around with these strange functions.

Spacecraft Image Processing

CICLOPS Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory of Operations, where I was the image processing guy 2003 - 2008.

spectacular pano taken by Cassini while in Saturn's shadow 
	In-Saturns-Shadow_PIA08329In-Saturns-Shadow_PIA08329
	https://ciclops.org/view/2230/In-Saturns-Shadow---the-Pale-Blue-Dot.html
	https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia08329.html  DEAD
	https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329 

Extreme enhancement images such as showing the plumes of Enceladus https://ciclops.org/view/2086/Boosting-the-Signal.html

Electronics

Stereoscopic 3D dot display, a graphics electronics project from an idea one summer between semesters. Result is an 8x8x8 grid of spots seen in perspective, right and left eye views, on an oscilloscope in X-Y mode. Obsolete and low-powered for today, but fun. I made a quick and crude video about it. Schematic made using RubySchem, a software tool using Postscript and Ruby - making that was a bigger project, and just as much fun. 8x8x8 Stereoscopic Display Might make a good science fair project, or the start of some mad scientist digital art experiment. Imagine replacing the antique static RAM chips and the four-bit counters with eight-bit x/y/z values and data generated from an Arduino...

An electronics experiment from 1988 to see how pure a sine wave I could make -- the Perfect Sine Wave Generator