The Guardian's Science section has a series of photos of the mathematical art of Simon Beck.
For the past decade, Simon Beck has been decorating the Alps with his stunning mathematical drawings, created by running in snowshoes across freshly laid snow. Each image takes him up to 11 hours to make and covers an area about 100m x 100m, requiring him to travel up to 25 miles as he marks out the pattern
Simon Beck's gallery site also has images (and a book for sale, which is the reason for the article).
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday November 09 2014, @06:37PM
Pretty much can't pirate his original works, but I can't imagine the book being a big seller either.
Having spent a great deal of my youth on show shoes, it looks to me like he didn't actually NEED the snow shoes where we was doing this. The snow looked pretty packed and firm already.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday November 09 2014, @07:16PM
It would be easier with the snow shoes though, wouldn't it? Why make it harder for himself? He's got to trudge around for hours at a time.
Besides which, with the snow shoes on, his footprints will be larger.
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(Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Sunday November 09 2014, @10:30PM
I've tried running on show shoes, and with any amount of powder it is amazingly tiring. (Especially with the kind he was wearing).
Although with them amount of snow shown in the pictures it would probably be much easier.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Sunday November 09 2014, @09:27PM
This snow art looks like crop circles. I presume many of these designs require knowledge of ruler and compass geometry because that's how many of the crop circle pranksters do it.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday November 09 2014, @10:50PM
Strange startup idea: A HUD for your google glasses that links to your circling drone and assuming your programming is decent, you just walk along the arrows on the HUD. We've all seen worse startup ideas.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday November 10 2014, @12:13AM
Shut up and take my money (for the R&D effort, not the product)!
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(Score: 3, Informative) by pnkwarhall on Sunday November 09 2014, @10:52PM
I visited Simon Beck's
gallery site [snowart.gallery]
...looking for prints, only to find it is not a "real" gallery instead being only a marketing site for the book.
The only thing "gallery" about the website is the .tld . Just sayin'.
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(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Sunday November 09 2014, @10:59PM
This Koch Snowflake variation [snowart.gallery] is awesome. Why are fractal images so beautiful and mesmerizing?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @09:31AM
This guy does sand versions: http://www.andresamadorarts.com/ [andresamadorarts.com]
Many seem to look better to me. But I suppose sand is easier :).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @05:12PM
So that's why all the pictures look like through the eyes of a myopic mole!
If the guy was a marketing whiz, he'd take a fairy decent image in pretty high reso and release it under e.g. the CC BY-SA license. Then he'd just sit back and rake in the gold.