I bought myself a new monitor, with a maximal resolution of 1920 times 1080 pixels, that is, a high definition monitor. Which means that I can no longer use my old desktop wallpaper with a size of 1600 times 1200 pixels. So I had to make myself a new one. And since I also switched to Windows 7, which automatically wants to switch between different wallpapers without the help of any third party tool, and since my new machine (I also bought a new computing box) has the horsepower to do this shifting of backgrounds without interrupting the other stuff I am doing, I find myself in the situation that I not only need one, but several images in the format 1920×1080 px.

Well, “need” is a strong term: I could, of course, had done with the pre-installed images. But since I made some images in the past, it would be nice to have some of them as desktop wallpapers, wouldn’t it? And if I make some wallpapers, I might as well share them with you, mightn’t I?

One problem I encountered is that the vast majority of my images in not in landscape format. Another one is that many of the images I made aren’t that good to begin with. And putting them up on the web, a third problem I discovered was that images this large either have ginormous file sizes, or suffer from lots of JPEG artifacts.

Some images I could make into landscape format with some tricks, occasionally cheating a bit. Some I had to redo from scratch. I tried to restrict myself to the few good images I’m really proud of. And I tried to compromise between unbearable file sizes and unbearable JPEG artifacts. Whether I succeeded is up for you to decide. Anyway, the following preview pictures are linked to 1920×1080 px images, each of them being between a quarter and half a megabyte large. I tried to split them up into five categories, but obviously there is a lot of overlap between those categories.

This is a variation of the image I previously used as my desktop wallpaper, using the cool green numbers effect inspired by the movie “Ghost in the Shell”, combined with an often used motive of mine, the green swimsuit.

Angelica, a blonde Chinese princess from Ariost’s “Orloando Furioso”, chained to a rock and to be devoured by a sea monster, and Roger accompanied by his hippogryph in the background coming to rescue her, with Japanese swimsuit model Yuko Aoki as Angelica. A mixture of ink drawings, acrylic painting, photos, scans and photoshoped stuff.

Here I reused my Angelica for a Warhol-like sequence.

In another variant, we see the sea monster and Yuko Aoki on the beach, with some parasols and a different kind of dragon, namely, a Julia fractal.

This is one of several versions of Angelica and the dragon as elements in a fictitious video game.

One of my many attempts of making a paper doll.

This is a static version of an animation; imagine the mandalas in the background rotating.

And finally, my version of a nude with white cushion by Amadeo Modigliani.

The next part shows some visualizations of mathematical objects.