One of many cool music videos by Koichiro Tsujikawa, this one for the band Cornelius.
Kind of busy this last week, with no immediate end in sight. So real quick in case you haven’t heard … (linkdump)
“Our techniques are inspired by graph layout algorithms that minimize edge crossings and distort node positions while maintaining their relative position to one another.”
Reactable has come a ways since I last saw it a couple years ago — from something that seemed a little pale in comparison to other analogous systems like Audiopad, to something now seriously dripping in delicious synaesthetic badassery.
These guys are hilarious — kind of like a hipster Tenacious D.
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Near-frozen water crashes on the shore as snow at Miles Cove, Newfoundland, Canada in Spring of 2003.
Sing it baby.
On 3 March, two weekends from now, the earth will eclipse the sun from the perspective of the moon, blocking its light save what filters through our atmosphere, painting the otherwise full moon in sunrise shades of orange and red.
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A technique known as contour crafting, or “house printing”, will be tested in Los Angeles two months from now in April. Without any construction workers, a two-story water-tight shell will be built in 24 hours — 200x the speed of traditional construction.
Scientists Chi-Wing Fu and Andrew Hanson develop a model for visualizing the degrees of scale between different functional levels of matter formation, ranging from the observable universe as a whole to one Planck length.
Two professors and a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill formulate a new model that superimposes over the Big Bang theory (…)
(…) the recently launched CoRoT satellite, combined with ground-based observatories, will soon be able to estimate density of extrasolar planets, thus allowing us to locate long-theorized ocean planets (…)
Or as Matthew Oliphant calls it, “colorizing images and movies with squiggles”. Students at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering (HUJ-RSBSCSE for short I guess?, just rolls off the tounge) have devised a way to add simple marks to areas of an image or video you want colored, and process it through MATLAB software getting some pretty remarkable results.
Check their paper, which was presented at SIGGRAPH 2004, for more info and examples at the link below.
Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves segmenting images into regions and tracking these regions across image sequences. Neither of these tasks can be performed reliably in practice; consequently, colorization requires considerable user intervention and remains a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive task.
In this paper we present a simple colorization method that requires neither precise image segmentation, nor accurate region tracking. Our method is based on a simple premise: neighboring pixels in space-time that have similar intensities should have similar colors. We formalize this premise using a quadratic cost function and obtain an optimization problem that can be solved efficiently using standard techniques. In our approach an artist only needs to annotate the image with a few color scribbles, and the indicated colors are automatically propagated in both space and time to produce a fully colorized image or sequence. We demonstrate that high quality colorizations of stills and movie clips may be obtained from a relatively modest amount of user input.
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I’ve seen Hans Rosling’s Gapminder, a stunning interactive display of world social and economic statistics, but I’ve never taken the time to watch his presentation at TED 2006 until today. His passion for visualizing data that thus far resides in a more nebulous region of global consciousness is inspiring.
“On the rim of the war zone, a new Mecca of conspicuous consumption and economic crime, under the iron rule of Sheikh al-Maktoum. Skyscrapers half a mile high, artificial archipelagoes, fantasy theme parks—and the indentured Asian labour force that sustains them.”
Wait till the cake at the end. (video)
A collection of videos taken by Phantom high speed cameras.
In case you haven’t seen/heard Mike Rundle and Paul Scrivens released a redesigned 9rules site today and it’s more or less off the chain. And that phrase is more or less stuck in the 90s. Codenamed “Ali” it’s the 5th version of the blog community’s portal.
A chimpanzee playing Pac-Man, not much else to say.
Created by industrial design students from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. The honeycomb material is made of recycled paper, and can stretch from 30 to 720 cm (almost 24 ft.), seating as many as 16 adults.
Some excellent writing as per usual from Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG about, ultimately, human impact on the planet as seen from the future.
“Such a cloud cover was expected, according to the atmospheric circulation models of Titan, but it had never been observed before with such details. The condensates may be the source of liquids that fill the lakes recently discovered by [Cassini's] radar instrument.”
Best presentation of Super Bowl ads online yet.
Whoa. (video)