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Thursday, September 30, 2010
ColorSchemer | ColorPix | Galleria | Free
ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats.
You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way.
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ColorPix Window with Magnifier
Expanding the ColorPix window to show the magnifier lets you zoom in on your screen underneath your mouse.
You can also control the zoom percentage, up to 2000%.
ColorPix (PC ) colorschemer.com/colorpix
ColorSchemer Galleria ( Mac): colorschemer.com/galleria
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Spoonful of Neutrons
Neutron Stars
A neutron star is about 20 km in diameter and has the mass of about 1.4 times that of our Sun. This means that a neutron star is so dense that on Earth, one teaspoonful would weigh a billion tons! Because of its small size and high density, a neutron star possesses a surface gravitational field about 2 x 1011 times that of Earth. Neutron stars can also have magnetic fields a million times stronger than the strongest magnetic fields produced on Earth.
Neutron stars are one of the possible ends for a star. They result from massive stars which have mass greater than 4 to 8 times that of our Sun. After these stars have finished burning their nuclear fuel, they undergo a supernova explosion. This explosion blows off the outer layers of a star into a beautiful supernova remnant. The central region of the star collapses under gravity. It collapses so much that protons and electrons combine to form neutrons. Hence the name "neutron star"...
Cream Spoonful
A neutron star is about 20 km in diameter and has the mass of about 1.4 times that of our Sun. This means that a neutron star is so dense that on Earth, one teaspoonful would weigh a billion tons! Because of its small size and high density, a neutron star possesses a surface gravitational field about 2 x 1011 times that of Earth. Neutron stars can also have magnetic fields a million times stronger than the strongest magnetic fields produced on Earth.
Neutron stars are one of the possible ends for a star. They result from massive stars which have mass greater than 4 to 8 times that of our Sun. After these stars have finished burning their nuclear fuel, they undergo a supernova explosion. This explosion blows off the outer layers of a star into a beautiful supernova remnant. The central region of the star collapses under gravity. It collapses so much that protons and electrons combine to form neutrons. Hence the name "neutron star"...
via youtube.com
Craziest Crossover Ever
Introducing Adobe's new software (YES they did it!)
Links:
Adobe shows off plenoptic lenses that let you refocus an image after it's taken
Adobe demos photography with infinite depth of field
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider
We couldn't get a clear answer about the hand but we (sadly) know about the head.
added on 12/15/10
Today I Found Out
What Happens When You Stick Your Head Into a Particle Accelerator?
Links about Collider:
Question: What Happens if You Cross the LHC Stream with Your Hand?
First images from large Collider
RHIC Collider Creates Quark-Gluon Plasma at 4,000,000,000,000 Degrees Celsius | Popular Science
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Irish (Hand) Dancing
via time.com
Performed and choreographed by Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding
Film by Jonny Reed
Music: Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup ft. Cleary & Harding
Film by Jonny Reed
Music: Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup ft. Cleary & Harding
Friday, September 24, 2010
Infra-Red is beautiful
Views of Saturn's Aurora, Captured by Cassini
A new movie and images showing Saturn's shimmering aurora over a two-day period are helping scientists understand what drives some of the solar system's most impressive light shows. > nasa.gov Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Leicester
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Eleven
Will robotisation force us to robotise and uniformise ourselves? Beyond the fun, this video brings a serious question up.
Soothing and Healing
From time to time, we need to clean our ears and brains of all the crappy trash we are forced to listen to...Enjoy!
Blast from the Past 8 | a 100 years old eye
This is a circa 1908 Wollensak 35mm F5.0 Cine-Velostigmat hand cranked cinema camera lens. its as cute as a button...literally...
"I am a DP and photographer, 90% of the time i use my 5D for stills, professional and not.
I have an upcoming photography project that needs a vintage look.
Initially i was going to shoot it on 4x5 large format film, but found the equipment and processing cost prohibitive.
My friend, a Russian lens technician, who loves nothing more than to frankenstein equipment, was assisting me in building the 4x5 camera.
After we abandoned the 4x5 solution, i put the project on back burner.
This morning he called me into his store on NYC. He has something for me....
He found in a box of random parts, hidden inside anther lens this gem.
A circa 1908 ( possibly earlier) 35mm lens.
Still functioning, mostly brass, and not nearly as much dust or fungus as one would think after sitting in a box for over a hundred years.
This lens is a piece of motion picture history, and at this point rare beyond words.
So i say to him,
"Wow... what do you have in mind?"
he smiles, and says, ( in the thickest russian accent you can imagine) " i can make this fit EF you know...
" my eye twinkled, and then 6 nail biting hours later,he had it finished.
My Russian Lens technician is a mad scientist and he took what sounded like an angle grinder to the lens to make its clear the flange distance and the mirror.......
This lens' value is unclear. its sort of on loan. It's the only lens of its kind on a 5D... or any digital for that matter.
Its funny while i was shooting these, EVERY photographer i saw stopped and asked me about the lens... it just looks so goofy on there."
Timur Civan
3D TODAY # blast from the past
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Pluto Gets 14 New Neighbors
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| A chart of the largest known trans-Neptunian objects as of 2007. |
Beyond Neptune's orbit, roughly five billion miles from the sun, the solar system can seem like a dark, desolate place...>> blogs.nationalgeographic.com
Monday, September 20, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
The world's smallest stop-motion animation character
"Professor Fletcher's invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman.
It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world.
All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics." >nokia (YouTube)
via paper.li/giancarlodrago
Aggressive Quadrotor Part II
Autonomous quadrotor flight from the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.
More robots >> 3d-today.org/search/label/robots
Small World: Stunning photos of everyday objects as seen under a microscope
Wasp nest (10X magnification) taken in La Spezia, Italy
Fern Spore (20X magnification) taken at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
more =>dailymail.co.uk
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Here Comes the 3-D Camera: Revolutionary Prototype Films World in Three Dimensions
(Credit: Image courtesy of Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
"It's no pun: we are truly entering a new dimension in technology with the 3-D digital camera developed by the researchers of Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento.."
International Observe the Moon Night!
Did you know?
September 18, 2010 will mark the first ever International Observe the Moon Night! This year’s InOMN will be used as our pilot year to inform us on how to make it better and more interactive. We’re testing the waters and would love to hear from you about how we’re doing...
September 18, 2010 will mark the first ever International Observe the Moon Night! This year’s InOMN will be used as our pilot year to inform us on how to make it better and more interactive. We’re testing the waters and would love to hear from you about how we’re doing...
Stanford and Berkeley teams create 'electric skin'
A butterfly tips the scales on a super sensor to determine weight and pressure, part of research project on artificial skin.
"For an amputee, the body may continue feeling a phantom limb for long after the original is gone.
"For an amputee, the body may continue feeling a phantom limb for long after the original is gone.
Every arm or leg movement can carry the imaginary weight of a lost appendage, regardless of the presence of a prosthetic..." > physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Eye-Candy For The Weekend: Particle Animation Music Videos - Smashing Magazine
Comets may have brought life to Earth: new study
" Life on Earth as we know it really could be from out of this world. New research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists shows that comets that crashed into Earth millions of years ago could have produced amino acids - the building blocks of life..."
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Haptic Adapter giving a tactile sensation to touchscreens
A research group at Tokyo Institute of Technology is developing a device called the Haptic Adapter. This is a new type of user interface, which gives a tactile sensation to touchscreen operation when using devices such as the Nintendo DS and iPad.
"When using a touchscreen, a main problem is that there's no sensation of having pressed a button, and you can't tell how much sliding you've done. We're doing research to make touchscreens easier to operate, by using tactile feedback to solve those problems in touch operation."
Fast automatic generation of 3D face models from photos
A research group at Waseda University is working on technology to generate 3D models of people's faces easily, without requiring the use of special equipment such as range scanners.
"The technology we're suggesting here is for generating a 3D model as quickly as possible from a single photo."
"The system has measured the shapes of lots of faces in advance using 3D measuring equipment, and by combining those faces, it estimates the shape of each face input."
diginfo.tv
AIST i3Space |Touchable 3D TV
The Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group at AIST has developed i3Space, a system that gives a sense of touch and interaction to 3D images. It also enables shapes to be designed while checking how they feel to touch.
DigInfo - diginfo.tv
Jump into 3D maps by calculating orientation | G Duy 's Blog
VirtualDrive: Type source and destination address and get complete the idea of the route, by seeing street view and bird's eye view.
"Lets make a VirtualDrive MashUp today. As you know that Google maps API has Street view feature and Live maps has Bird’s Eye view feature. We will mix these 2 things in our mash-up.
Feature of This MashUp will be."
- To Take input as source and destination address.
- Animate the street view & Bird’s Eye from source to destination."
more explaination => gduyblog.blogspot.com
Desktop Manufacturing | The New York Times
3D printers let designers make three dimensional objects by just hitting "print" on their computers. New businesses, like custom prostheses, are taking advantage of cheaper access to the technology.
Monday, September 13, 2010
8 Amazing Things Made With 3D Printers | Printing Choice
"Movie theaters and expensive LED TVs aren’t the only tech toys going 3D these days.
Lately doctors, hackers, geeks, and architects are using design software and state-of-the art 3D printers to sculpt some truly awesome stuff.
3D printers squirt molten plastic, metal, and even human tissue into shapes previously only possible through hand craftsmanship, if at all!.."
Sunday, September 12, 2010
L'état de l'art de l'Art: Plagiarism
Artists: Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector
Photos: Ilana Spector
This is outrageous!
The compression is the landmark signature of Cesar Baldaccini (1921-1998).
Whether those so called artists know his life time work and it is plagiary or they don’t and they should (at least) learn contemporary art history.
As we all know, Art is a dirty job.
But it becomes radically stinking whenever somebody, unashamedly steals an artist's work, claiming it as his own, speculating on the public's ignorance and unculture.
LINKS: California Artists Build Obelisk Out of Bicycles wired.com
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Lying with angles
Oyster Photo Fakeouts
"Oyster visits hotels undercover and takes hundreds of photos of each hotel so our members can see the truth before they book.
When we compare the photos we take to the ones used for marketing on other travel sites, the results can be quite funny..."
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
New 3D speed bump of girl crossing road that suddenly 'appears' in front of drivers | Mail Online
Shocking new 3D speed bump illusion of girl crossing the road that suddenly 'appears' in front of drivers
"It sounds like a terrifying experience that would make even the most seasoned of drivers panic or even crash.
But a school in Canada is using a bizarre 3D optical illusion of a young girl crossing the road to try and make drivers slow down.
The image of a girl chasing after a ball is painted on the road and elongated to make it appear three-dimensional when seen from an approaching car..."
Article by Niall Firth dailymail.co.uk
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
From Dust does water like you've never seen before | Fidgit
"It's too early to draw any conclusions about what kind of game we can expect in From Dust. Right now, this intended god game from Ubisoft is little more than a tech demo. But what an impressive tech demo it is for one simple reason: the water." fidgit.com
Labrador and Dolphin
Animals are not directly related to our purpose, albeit they are, obviously, 3D.
We opened this ZooLife topic as a tribute to animals, friendship, mutual understanding, and love.
Animal condition worldwide is awful.
Please bring your share to its improvement whatever you can do.
Blast from the Past 7 | Shakespeare
"Shakespeare's face recreated in 3D by scientists but have they got right man?
Scientists have used state-of-the-art 3D computer technology to create what they say is the first true likeness of William Shakespeare..." by Nigel Blundell
Scientists have used state-of-the-art 3D computer technology to create what they say is the first true likeness of William Shakespeare..." by Nigel Blundell
3D TODAY # blast from the past
- Part 1 Blast from the past: Remote ancestors and faces in 3D
- Part 2 Forward to the Past
- Part 3 Medieval snapshot
- Part 4 More ancestors than we thought!
- Part 5 A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
- Part 6 Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W
Google Fonts Directory
"The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API.
All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers." code.google.com
All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers." code.google.com
What are the Google Font API and the Google Font Directory?
http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/webfonts/
http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/webfonts/
Monday, September 6, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
So you want to create a font. Part 1 | I love typography
Article by Alex Julien
"Alec Julien is a web developer and amateur typographer living in Vermont, US. He dreams of someday living somewhere warm, and typesetting a novel."
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