Welcome

Come in, have a leisurely stroll, enjoy the sights and let me know what you think. You've entered the garden of Basil Flatrock. Within you shall see my virtual world of creations, learn about what I would like the real world to see.

Basil Flatrock has been an alias/handle of mine since the days I've dialed into a BBS. It's meaning is simply illustrated by the emblem on the right, and in the background. There's also a rendered version in the Infini-D Art gallery. as well as in the animated banner above. That is, a basil leaf lying across a flat triangular rock. Both courtesy of my mother's garden in the side yard. For those of you that visited Flatrock's Garden when it was hosted at Johns Hopkins will notice quite a few aesthetic changes. Most notably the color scheme and background, it used to be a solid black background, with neon green text, and neon orange links (I'm sure you all appreciate the change :). Those curious can download it from the files section.

About the owner

My real name is Winston Wang, I am currently working as an Engineer for the Boeing Company, working on the Space Shuttle program. I did a post-doctorate fellowship at Institute of Paper Science at Georgia Tech. I graduated with my PhD in Macromolecular Science on May 19, 2002 from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,Ohio. My Doctoral Disseration was on Development of Mixing Indicies for Optimization and Scale-up of Polymer Processing Equipment. Those curious can download the PDF version from the files section. I received my M.S. in Macromolecular Science from Case Western Reserve. I received my B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

My wife is currently working on her web page and whenever Joules gets it up and running, this link will work. Addition information regarding our wedding and engagement is here.

New addition to our family is Megan. See all the photos from ultrasounds all the way through the very recent.

Featured Guests

Sibling to Basil, is Beet who has graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Mass. Actually Cambridge. He is attending Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio for his Master's Degree in Material Science and Engineering.

Like wise, the artist in residence and awesome sister all rolled into one is Peggo. Who graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley., MA . (But in reality she spent all her time at M.I.T..) She has worked as an intern at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. She is attending the prestigious University of Chicago's graduate Art History program when not playing Ultimate. Currently she is a Fulbright-Hays Scholar residing in Beijing for a year.

Best friend, future doctor, and co-founder of the Snowball Dodgers, is Roger Katen. He received his Medical at Degree from Emory University.

Some other friends and former roommates are located on the 3T Crew Page. Check it out it's chock full of photos.

Basil and Joules are our beloved feline friends transplanted from Atlanta.

Hunter (who unfortunately doesn't currently have his own web page) is our Shiba Inu canine companion, who hails from Canada.

A list of all the photo pages on my website.

About the residents of the garden

Spot is the somewhat diligent guard of the garden. Recently he's acquired his own spacestation. The station currently holds some cool links he thinks you might be interested in. He can be found sitting on top of my old computer at home.

New to the garden is Galapa Gus of Gossamer Pond. Gus is a stuffed turtle by Gund, he is however listed as extinct. So he's taken up sanctuary at Gossamer Pond, my new computer

Galapa Gus and Spot welcomes you as visitor to the garden. Thank you Webcounter.

Pagecount is providing statistics to Galapa Gus on page hits as well a guest book, comes complete with this ugly banner

About the art on this page

Starting from the top of the page:

Background: The "Flatrock Garden" background is a Adobe Photoshop 3.0 filtered version of the emblem (see Emblem below). I first greyscaled the image, applied the emboss filter and then added the tan tint. I picked light green and tan for an earth tone scheme to go along with the "Garden" theme. (1-24-97)
Animated Banner: The "Welcome to Basil Flatrock's Garden" banner was rendered in MetaCreation's Infini-D 4.5, and converted to an animated GIF with GifBuider. I modified the emblem model in the Infini-D Model Art Gallery and added text and then animated it. (9-3-98)
Emblem: The Flatrock emblem was created in Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on August 25th, 1995. While I was working in the Design Department of Fountain Technologies. Note that nothing was scanned and everything was done freehand, through filters and judicious use of layers. I'm especailly proud of the textures on the rock and the leaf. :) (5-28-95)
Spot Photo: The photo of Spot was taken with a Apple QuickTake 100 digital camera on January 13th, 1996 and edited it Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on Feburuary 24th, 1996. (The background was erased, the engraving was enhanced and an iris was added to Spot's eye. The real life Spot was carved on July 10th, 1990 when I was at Camp Sequassen teaching Arts & Crafts for the BSA. (2-24-96)
Spaace Station: "Spot's Station" was created on September 28-29th 1996 using Specular Infini-D 2.6, Adobe Photoshop 3.0.5, Adobe Premire 1.0, and MacroMedia/Paracomp SoundEdit Pro 1.0. Clicking on the Station will allow you to view a Quicktime animation of the station. [8 sec,674K]. This is my little tribute to Babylon 5 and Sophie B. Hawkins. My apologies to both. (9-29-96)
Spot Drawing: Before the advent of digital cameras, and back in the days of the Macintosh SE/30 (circa 1990). I hand drew a bitmapped version of Spot as part of my StartupScreen. When I got my Quadra 700 in 1992, I applied 'technicolor' or rather filled the spaces with color. On May 21, 1995 Spot graduated to my web pages. (5-21-95)
Galapa Gus Drawing: I made this drawing to serve as my hard drive icon. I modified a clip art piece from Deneba Canvas 5.0.3, and edited it in Adobe Photoshop 4.0. (I'm sure the Deneba people aren't too pleased with that!) (9-4-98)
Galapa Gus Picture: This model of Galapa Gus was rendered with MetaCreations Infini-D 4.5. Some editing was done in Adobe Photoshop 4.0. Clicking on Galapa Gus will open up a QuickTime VR movie [245K]. See the Infini-D Art gallery for more information about the Galapa Gus model. (9-4-98)

For more of my creative creations be sure to visit the Infini-D Art gallery.

Created by Winston Wang. Last modified September 1st, 2007.