Bionic Animals Show Nature Knows Best

Bionischer Handling-Assistent

Festo - Bionic Handling Assistant - Animation

"The Bionic Handling Assistant is a light, free-moving “third hand” system. Thanks to its structural compliance, direct contact between humans and machines humans and machine is now no longer a danger..."

festo.com

Festo - Bionic Learning Network 2009

Bionic projects in the technical automation

Bionic Animals Show Nature Knows Best
Article by Melissa Breyer

 

 

"In news that gives a novel spin to the term “factory farming,” automation company Festo is launching a new concept: a robotic elephant trunk known as the Bionic Handling Assistant..."

...

..But bionic animals for industry? Are we going too far? Do you think it’s cool or creepy?
 

Read this very interesting post >>>care2.com

Ugetsu Monogatari

Ugetsu Monogatari

 Wildly Improbable Natural Disasters - And How They Would Happen

 What would happen if the moon simply blinked out of existence? 

What if the earth's orbit changed dramatically? Article by Esther

io9.com

Is the Moon Following Me? (not on Twitter)
Why does it appear that the Moon is following me?

"The basic reason is because the Moon is so far away, but it also has to do with how your eyes and mind work together (it is what is called an optical illusion). If you look at two things (say a building and a tree) that are different distances from you and then walk sideways, you will see that the two objects shift, but that the closer one shifts to the side more than the one that is farther. The Moon is so far away that it does not appear to shift at all. The human mind interprets this in a funny way. It thinks that the Moon is closer than it really is, but that it is moving sideways at the same speed as you are. So you think that the Moon is following you." Dr. Eric Christian
(September 2002)  helios.gsfc.nasa.gov

Day the Earth Stood Still Trailer

"The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 science fiction film which tells the story of a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to warn its leaders not to take their conflicts into space, or they will face lethal consequences."Wikipedia

Deblur your Fonts

Better contour rendering - Ghost in the code

"At SIGGRAPH 2007, Chris Green at Valve published a paper, Improved Alpha-Tested Magnification for Vector Textures and Special Effects . 

The paper is about a neat trick for making alpha tested textures containing contours (like text, or logos) look much better. Here’s why you should use it:" Joakim Hårsman

Go! for more information  >>  ghostinthecode.posterous.com

PDF valvesoftware.com

The Universal Soup (with munchies)

Early Universe was a liquid: First results from the Large Hadron Collider's ALICE experiment

(PhysOrg.com) --" In an experiment to collide lead nuclei together at CERN's Large Hadron Collider physicists from the ALICE detector team including researchers from the University of Birmingham have discovered that the very early Universe was not only very hot and dense but behaved like a hot liquid..."

"By accelerating and smashing together lead nuclei at the highest possible energies, the ALICE experiment has generated incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs, recreating the conditions that existed in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. Scientists claim that these mini big bangs create temperatures of over ten trillion degrees..."
>> physorg.com

 

Sunday 28 November 2010 
How the universe evolved from a liquid | The Telegraph

"The universe was a super-hot liquid in the moments immediately after its birth, according to the first results from an experiment to recreate the conditions of Big Bang... "
Article by Richard Gray

telegraph.co.uk

3d-today.org #hadron+collider

Falling Robot Gecko Rights Itself in Mid-Air

Gecko Tail and RightingBot

How mid-air righting gecko inspires robot gecko that can right itself during free fall.

Thorax design of the Harvard robot fly for powering and controlling its wingbeat

Credit: Benjamin Finio and Robert Wood

More ++ spectrum.ieee.org

3D Visualization Software in Real-time

"SS Foresight treats the development of a 3D visualization project as a rapid prototyping solution. ISS Foresight is a perfect partner for Autocad, Sketchup, Photoshop, 3ds Max, Blender, Illustrator ..."

"..Create animations and images in seconds and present to colleagues and clients in 3D real-time..."

iss3d.com

3D Technologies R&D us Leica and modo to scan and model the Piusa Caves | SolidSmack.com

Scanning the cavern with the Leica HDS 3000 laser scanner.

"After you shut down a dangerous cave system to allow a hibernating bat population to thrive, there’s only one thing left to do… scan it with lasers..."Josh

"The caves are presented as interactive real-time 3D model where visitors can hover around using 32“ touchscreen. Cave walls, sandstone colours and minor details such as inscriptions on the sand wall made by the past visitors are observable in the computer model. Visitors can read additional information about the caverns and can take virtual tour inside the caves."

Check this very interesting site out!

3solidsmack.com

Computer Generated Imagery

Above Everything Else

Title: 'Above Everything Else' 

Agency: N/A - direct client

Client: Grupo Cosentino

Product: Worktop

Brand: Silestone

Production company: The Mushroom Company

Director/DoP/Art direction/Post/Editor: Alex Roman (maker of The Third & The Seventh)

Original idea/Concept: Alex Roman

Additional CGI: Juan Ángel García Martinez

Music: ZipZap Music 
Spot TV 60"

Brings to evidence  any object can now be generated out of nowhere.

 "Its a combination of Autodesk 3dsmax, V-Ray (Chaos Software), Adobe AfterEffects and Adobe Premiere"   
Tipoomaster (Above Everything Else HD - Mind explodingly realistic CGI by Alex Roman (NOW IN HD)  youtube.com 


More about Alex Roman:
thirdseventh.com

The Third & The Seventh 3d-today.org

Approach to Understand XML and Flash Workflow | GraphicMania

graphicmania.net

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Online Research Cool, Calm, and Collected

Patent on "Long Tail" for automated content authorship.

"The "algorithms" depend on the genre. The most advanced use parametric, non-parametric as well as Bayesian econometrics, graph theory, and meta analysis (mostly coupled with some specialized computational linguistics and editorial rules that are required within certain genres) -- each piece is rather straight forward; the combination allows complexity. In terms of IT or programming languages, there is no rigidity to this - again it depends on the genre. If animation is the goal, then code is written to write MEL scripts, etc., which can automate Maya, which can in turn automate rendering, lights, etc., via macros. This works well, but for only certain aspects of that genre...    PhilipMParker  youtube.com

Method and apparatus for automated authoring and marketing | Philip M. Parker

google.com/patents=philip+m+parker

Webster's Online Dictionary with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation

websters-online-dictionary.org

Article:

He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) 

 Article by Noam Cohen     nytimes.com

Altered States Brain Mapping

The masters of our minds: Meet the brain scientists battling to preserve our sanity

MRI, PET and CT scans of the brains of people affected by (clockwise from top left):

Alcoholism - Marijuana use - Multiple sclerosis - Cocaine use - Parkinson's disease - Alzehemier's disease.

 

Article by Andrew Preston

"The greatest threat to humanity is all in our minds  -  Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's affect millions, while one in six of us will die with dementia. Andrew Preston put squeamishness aside to observe the brain scientists who are on one of civilisation's most ambitious quests: to prolong life itself.."

>> dailymail.co.uk

What's the Matter with the Higgs Boson?

Images by Matthew Jacques/Shutterstock
 Efman/Shutterstock

"The search is on for the Higgs boson, and it seems likely that soon we'll find this mysterious particle that creates matter in the universe. But what if we don't? In this week's "Ask a Physicist," we'll find out..." More>>  io9.com

Added on 11/22/10
First Z bosons detected by CMS in heavy-ion collisions

Candidate Z Boson decaying to two electrons (two tallest red towers) in a lead-lead heavy ion collision at CMS. The other red and blue towers indicate energy deposits in CMS from other particles produced.

"Z bosons produced in collisions of heavy ions have been observed for the first time by the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CMS observed 10 events containing a distinctive candidate Z boson reconstructed from a pair of electrons or a pair of muons (see figures 1 and 2 respectively), whose invariant mass is consistent with the Z boson mass..."

>> cms.web.cern.ch

CMS experiment at the LHC makes first observation of Z Bozons in Heavy-ion collisions
(18th November 2010) PDF

EVE Incursion character creator test build 202056

Click to see Gif

"Newest developer blog about Incursion release dates:

eveonline.com (http://bit.ly/clBQAY)

New version of the test character creator is available now (11.11.2010) on Singularity with build DEV-DEMO 202056

Remember this is still work in progress version."  Sarmatiko youtube.com

EVE online new character creator female preview

Why didn't we have teachers like this?

Professor James Kakalios

A quite remarquable aspect cleverly pointed out here is the extraordinary of science fiction predicting coherent light far before it was discovered, thus making it culturally familiar.

The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, James Kakalios

Lesson Six

'Most of us are unaware of how much we depend on quantum mechanics on a day-to-day basis. Using illustrations and examples from science fiction pulp magazines and comic books, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics explains the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics that underlie the world we live in..."

youtube.com

More about Professor Jim Kakalios:

"James Kakalios is a physics professor at the University of Minnesota. Known within the scientific community for his work with amorphous semiconductors, granular materials, and 1/f noise, he is known to the general public as the author of the book The Physics of Superheroes, which considers comic book superheroes from the standpoint of fundamental physics.."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kakalios

Virtual Estate/ Real Money

MAIL ONLINE
Jon Jacobs sells virtual nightclub Club Neverdie in online Entropia game for £400k

An overview of the club which has various rooms as well as shops and a teleporter

"An internet real estate mogul has sold his virtual nightclub for $635,000 (£399,000) in the largest online sale of its kind ever.

British-born Jon Jacobs stunned experts when he sold ‘Club Neverdie’, one of the most sought-after properties in the virtual world game Entropia Universe, for the record sum.

He plans to use the money to to start up new on-line ventures and look for ways to make money with traditional media including Hollywood producers."

Article by Daniel Bates>>  dailymail.co.uk

Can Planets be Shy and Hiding Behind Others?

WIRED SCIENCE
Extragalactic Exoplanet Found Hiding Out in Milky Way

"Some extrasolar planets are truly out of this world.

Astronomers have for the first time discovered a planet in the Milky Way that came from another galaxy. 

The planet, which has a mass of at least 1.25 Jupiters, orbits an elderly star that was ripped from a small satellite galaxy some 6 to 9 billion years ago.

Johny Setiawan and Rainer Klement of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, describe the finding online November 18 in Science..."

Article by Ron Cowen     wired.com/wiredscience

Are ColorsTrue to Everybody?

Different perceptions of colors as if you could have different ears to listen to music.

• Normal vision
• Protanopy
• Deuteranopy
• Tritanopy
• Protanomaly
• Deuteranomaly
• Tritanomaly
• Full colorblindness
• Atypical monochromatism

colorschemedesigner.com

Cyndi Lauper "True Colors"

"But I see your true colors

shining through

I see your true colors

and that's why I love you

so don't be afraid to let them show

your true colors

true colors are beautiful

like a rainbow"

Amazing Copter

The Hexacopter: Awesome flying machine

MK-HexaKopter

via wimp.com

Technical Data of that HexaKopter

• flight-time: up to 36 minutes with small payload. If you don't believe it.
• max. payload: 1kg (in the Video I used 1,3kg as payload for demonstration)
• weight: 1200g (including Lipo; without Camera) 

Guide to assembly

mikrokopter.com Get-started

Links:

 mikrokopter.com

 vimeo.com

PDF mikrokopter.de

Tierfotograf Benny Rebel: neue Perspektiven mittels MikroKopter

Wildlife photographer Benny Rebel: new perspectives using MikroKopter Here is the work of award-winning wildlife photographer Benny Rebel presents the ZDF.

Mark Willis: Aerial Photogrammetry with Hexaopter

Mark Willis used the MikroKopter Hexakopter as a tool for aerial mapping and photogrammetry of archaeological sites.

mikrokopter.de VideoListe

Free Ratio Engine

Example:

Number of stars in the universe divided by number of humans on earth.

number+of+stars+in+the+universe+divided+by+number+of+humans+on+earth


Enter what you want to calculate or know about:
wolframalpha.com

How the European map evolved over 10 centuries

Removed at owner's request.

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The Evolution of the Eye

SirMildredPierce | YouTube

15 Strange Things About Outer Space

 

Quasars

"These mysterious starlike objects shine from the outermost limits of the universe, helping scientists learn about the earliest stages of existence. We’ve since learned that a quasar is actually a black hole at the center of a huge, distant galaxy. Perhaps more interesting, quasars give off 1,000 times more energy than the entire Milky Way galaxy..."

more >> blog.koldcast.tv


 What is Quasar?



 

Wikipedia:

"A quasi-stellar radio source (quasar) is a very energetic and distant galaxy with an active galactic nucleus. Quasars were first identified as being high redshift sources of electromagnetic energy, including radio waves and visible light, that were point-like, similar to stars, rather than extended sources similar to galaxies."

"While there was initially some controversy over the nature of these objects—as recently as the early 1980s, there was no clear consensus as to their nature—there is now a scientific consensus that a quasar is a compact region in the centre of a massive galaxy surrounding the central supermassive black hole. Its size is 10-10,000 times the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole. The quasar is powered by an accretion disc around the black hole." 

en.wikipedia.org

Illustrator Tutorials

75 Best Illustrator Tutorials From 2012
creativenerds.co.uk

designm.ag/

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The best online real-time HTML editors internet has to offer | smash!ng apps

"HTML Editor is a software application which is used to create web pages and websites for the internet..."
smashingapps.com

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Micro Carvings Make Metals Glisten In Any Colour | TechnologyReview

"Optoelectronics engineers have discovered how to make gold of any colour by carving tiny shapes onto its surface;"

Metallic structural colour

a  Artistic impression of an intaglio metamaterial array of sub-wavelength single ring meta-molecules inscribed into a metal surface.

b The realization of this concept in gold: The words ‘NANO META’ seen under an optical microscope on the right are formed from arrays of 170 nm diameter rings (as shown in the electron microscope image, left) milled to a depth that increases in six steps from 60 to 200 nm across the sample.†

"When it comes to metal, you can have any colour as long as its silver. That's because the sea of electrons within most metals absorbs and emits light over the entire optical range. Rather than silver, metals are actually colourless.."

Ref: PDF arxiv.org: Controlling the Colour of Metals: Intaglio and Bas-Relief Metamaterials.

technologyreview.com

NASA - Tattooed Mars

via nasa.gov

The Story about Stop Motion

"Personal project about stop motion story. Everything is made of papers. Big thanks to Erin Austin and Rob Gungor from OK Sweatheart who worked on this beautiful music.
And thanks to Brian Le Gad on assisting me in the process of taking pictures." Chloe Fleury

chloefleury.com

stellaphotographie.com
via holykaw.alltop.com

The Big Bang was Hirsute

"With the outer tracking systems turned on the images of heavy ion collisions from ALICE get even better. Up to 3000 charged particles are produced and tracked as the radiate out from the central collision point. As they reach the outer detector they are bent by powerful magnets so that the energy of each one can be measured to get a complete picture of the fallout from the quark gluon plasma produced in the centre of the detector..."  Philip Gibbs

A "Big Bang" event at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN

News Blog of Science and Mathematics 
More Pictures and Video from ALICE by Philip Gibbs.
blog.vixra.org

A Mini "Big-Bang" at the LHC

Heavy Ion Collision at LHC, ALICE detector

This animation shows a 3D view of one of the first heavy ion collisions recorded at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. This event was seen on 7th November 2010 when Lead nuclei collided with a total energy of 574 TeV leaving a shower of thousands of particles.

Birth of the universe 're-created': Large Hadron Collider generates 'mini Big Bang'

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have created a ‘mini Big Bang’ in an experiment that mimicked conditions a millionth of a second after the birth of the universe.
By colliding lead ions – atoms of lead stripped of their electrons – at close to the speed of light, researchers generated temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the sun. 
Article by David Derbyshire. dailymail.co.uk

Large Hadron Collider creates mini Big Bang

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) succeeded in creating a minature Big Bang, after switching the particles used for its collisions from protons to lead ions. 

siliconrepublic.com

Large Hadron Collider Recreates The Big Bang

news.sky.com

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' 

bbc.co.uk

wordpress.com/tag/large-hadron-collider

ALICE Photos Web Page

epweb2.ph.bham.ac.uk

3d-today.org # hadron collider

• First images from large Collider
• RHIC Collider Creates Quark-Gluon Plasma at 4,000,000,000,000 Degrees Celsius
• Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider

God's Favorite Country

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Using CSS Text-Shadow to Create Cool Text Effects

 line25.com  

via 3d-today-links.

Function Gives Form Gives Sense

Excalibur at the Bjoeks wall in Groningen, the Netherlands.

Articles:

In the Dutch Mountains:  ukclimbing.com

Photography fiveprime.org

Gallery: bjoeks.nl

Excalibur at the Bjoeks wall in Groningen the Netherlands  ohgizmo.com

World's Highest Climbing Wall  damncoolpics.blogspot.com

Excalibur: The tallest climbing wall fromp Netherlands.interactivearchitecture.net

Sportpark Kardinge, Bieskemaar 3, Groningen, GRONINGEN 9735 AE

10 Awesome Logo Design Tutorials

designersdigest.co

 via 3d-today-links

15 Social Networks for Designers to Promote Artwork | GraphicMania

graphicmania.net

 via 3d-today-links

Partial Recall

Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover How to Erase Memory

"Researchers working with mice have discovered that by removing a protein from the region of the brain responsible for recalling fear, they can permanently delete traumatic memories. Their report on a molecular means of erasing fear memories in rodents appears this week in Science Express..."

hopkinsmedicine.org

Neuroscientists wipe specific memories, permanently

"In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, two people undergo a procedure to erase the memory of one another from their minds. And now love-lorn mice, at least, can experience the same relief from upsetting memories..."  tgdaily.com

The HOPES Brain Tutorial

 The HOPES Brain Tutorial (Flash Version)
 The HOPES Brain Tutorial (Text Version)

 hopes.stanford.edu

Mapping Memory in 3D

brain-interactive

ngm.nationalgeographic.com

Memory Game 

Test your memory skills 

memory-game

ngm.nationalgeographic.com

What is this?

1. It is a Hippocampus and Seahorse
2. It is 2 Seahorses
3. I can't remenber

Candas Sisman

Flux

Video and sound design by Candas Sisman.
"Plato Art Space is proud to present Candaş Şişman’s video dedicated to famous sculptor İlhan Koman produced for the exhibition İlhan Koman: Hulda Festival, a Journey into Art and Science opening on the 22nd September, 2010.
Avatar is a dance project for Istanbul Bilgi University,Management Of Performing Arts - Bodies and Technologies class."

Avatar

Avatar is a dance project for Istanbul Bilgi University,Management Of Performing Arts - Bodies and Technologies class.  10 min. (2009)

"This was the first dance video experience for me..." Candas Sisman

Visuals: Candas Sisman
Sound design: Mert Kizilay
Choreography: Yigit Daldikler
Concept: Neylan Ogutveren
Performance: Yigit Daldikler

Digital mixed image Candas Sisman

Drawing Candas Sisman

Photo manipulation Candas Sisman

Personal Portfolio CANDASSISMAN csismn.com

Article:

FLUX Abstract Animation Using Cinema 4D and HDRI Light Kit Pro

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