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I created the backgrounds for panels 2 and 3 in POV-Ray and for panel 4 in Mathematica.


2015-04-25 Rerun commentary: I wonder how many other webcomic creators have used Mathematica to generate backgrounds for panels. Not a lot, I'm hazarding to guess. It really does make some great images for use as a cyberspace backdrop.

I use Mathematica at my work a fair bit. The more computer sciencey staff tend to use MATLAB, but coming from a physics background I learnt Mathematica instead and have continued to use it. (The cool thing about my work is that they let you use whatever tools you feel most comfortable and productive with.) For me, Mathematica has the advantage of symbolic algebra, letting me solve differential equations and stuff like that which crop up in my work.

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