I love this one, but it's not very colorful. I've been trying to think of something equally nerdy and cool, but with some more color. Since I work on software for printers, I'd considered maybe a color gamut, or maybe a colorized DCT basis function to commemorate the years I worked on image compression. But I dunno, those aren't cool-looking enough.
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That might be a line of thinking worth exploring though, and I have a couple of similar ideas pictured below. The famous Eagle Nebula image is a candidate. The M100 Galaxy is also cool, but it might just look too much just like an ordinary spiral galaxy. I'd like something distinctly recognizable.
Also, you're all going to think this is some kind of Pharyngulian obsession, but I swear my wife and I were talking about getting matching tattoos of octopi before I had any idea who PZ Myers was. The reason is because we knew each other for eight years before we started dating, and so the number eight had some significance in our relationship. I'd still like to do this at some point, but we need to find a design we both like, and also one that is compatible with being in different locations on the body (I want only concealable tattoos for employment reasons, while my wife has no such constraints).
Any suggestions? (Eagle Nebula and M100 images below the fold)
Pretty awesome. Both my kids have tattoos. Hipbone area. My younger's tattoo is a nickname transcribed to Sanscrit so it's just really cool characters, and the older one has a star (was supposed to be 2 interconnected stars but Older Child said the process tickled too much and couldn't deal with the second being done)
ReplyDeleteWhat about the Cartwheel Galaxy or Hoag's Object? Mayall's Object is pretty cool too...
ReplyDeleteTattoos like these might end up looking like a rash, as you say, unless you go through the...er...tickling experience... of putting in a black background. I'd personally go with UV ink for this.
Just choose your artist carefully.
Sweet zombie christ, I just came here to say Hoag's Object. The Einstein Cross is pretty sweet.
ReplyDeleteMaxwell's Equations are both elegant and powerful and aesthetically pleasing (esp. if you use cgs-- SI has all those extra dingbats that get in the way)
Or, you could get a full body tattoo of yourself, only taller.
I like Hoag's Object a lot, though it reminds me of something... but I might do it anyway.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand the first thing about Maxwell's Equations :) Then again, I didn't really understand very much about Euler's Identity when I got the tattoo (I just thought it was beautiful in its combination of simplicity and mindfuck-edness) but later spent a lot of time reading and thinking about it and have a better understanding I think now. Although, even though I can derive it from the differential equations, I have a hard time conceptualizing the idea of applying an imaginary exponent to a number, but oh well...
My wife thinks I should get the Euler's Identity one added to by getting a bunch of numbers and symbols flying out of it. I kinda like the suggestion, but I also kindof like how stark the Euler's one is.