This website was launched on 30th Nov 2010, and was created from a template based on the design Borrowed Summer Holiday
, from the excellent Open Source Web Design site.
The colours used in the banners and elsewhere are selected from the palettes provided by ColorBrewer. These are also available via the R package RColorBrewer
. The banner logo depicts a kernel-smoothed density estimate of a bimodal distribution of 20 data points, with the best-fit twin Gaussian curves also shown. It is a simplified version of figure 12 from my 2009 paper.
The photos on this page were taken on a visit I made to Easter Island in 2006.
Ahu Akivi
An Easter Island statue, located on 