Riemann surface, in ChromaDepth stereo!

A blast from the past - this is a t-shirt design that Mary-Margaret and I submitted towards the SIGGRAPH '98 T-Shirt Contest, it won first place :) Shown is an entry about this, from Mary-Margaret's site (click on the pic to bring up a bigger version).

Borromean rings

These are quite interesting..

Here is an animation:

The color scheme employed is that of a ChromaDepth palette. The scheme makes it possible to create 3D (stereo) imagery for viewing with special prism (diffraction) glasses. But a lot of times stereo can be perceived even w/o glasses by looking intensely at the images long enough :)

Books

My first RenderMan book:
http://www.amazon.com/Rendering-Beginners-Image-Synthesis-RenderMan/dp/0240519353

Homepage: http://www.smartcg.com/tech/cg/books/RfB
The book's cover is featured in this mathematical book covers page (click on 'Penrose Triangle').

And second (co-authored with my friend Rudy Cortes):
http://www.amazon.com/RenderMan-Shading-Language-Guide/dp/1598632868

Homepage: http://rslprogramming.com/
A review, in 'Animation Magazine' (click to enlarge):