The other day I posted about my love for nonpareil chocolates, and then this morning I noticed a comment by Matt Cutts of Google who added that nonpareils is also a pattern for marbling. What type of pattern? Well, he links to a Google Images search for the term, which shows this hippish looking psychedelic pattern named nonpareil.
I tried finding pictures of this at flickr but only got the candy kind, and some of those pictures are simply, wow!
Then I thought, maybe this was a hit to my Ask.com post named, Ask.com Image Search Gets Smarter. But I tried an image search at ask on the same words, nonpareil marbling and the results look just fine to me.
So it makes me wonder about Matt's true identity... Matt the search geek or Matt the hippie?
Comments
Marbling is not hippy-ish. It's a tradition that goes back hundreds of years, and you can often find marbled paper in the frontispiece of books if you're interested in bookbinding.
If you were, say, a computer graphics person in college, you might find it interesting in the same way that ray tracing or recursive fractals are interesting. Harumph. ;)
Posted by: Matt Cutts | September 27, 2006 12:54 PM
History always has an answer.
We all know the truth. :)
See you in Vegas Matt.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | September 27, 2006 1:40 PM