September 2, 2010 – 1:45 pm
BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo.
August 26, 2010 – 12:46 pm
There’s an earlier, crappier version of this, and a later, better edit, and I don’t know which one this is. But man, this movie’s good, and the comic is even more wonderful in the ways you’d guess.
I think it’s probably still too scary for my niece, who’s excited about Totoro and the nonscary parts of [...]
August 10, 2010 – 12:55 am
I’m really excited to get to see this. $30000 of funding made this entire series (of which $27k+ has been raised — if you like it, donate!).
This is the future of media, everyone. Artists making money making art. I hope it works. I might just fire up Kickstarter to make sure I can afford to [...]
My favorite quote from this article, discussing the spontaneous market crash last April:
The trading bots visualized in the stock charts in this story aren’t doing anything that could be construed to help the market. Unknown entities for unknown reasons are sending thousands of orders a second through the electronic stock exchanges with [...]
I’m just now writing the Quantum Computation section of Human Contact, and lo and behold, there’s a really weird article on io9 today about a novel — and frankly paradigm-reshaking — use of the (still impractical) technology.
Quantum computing is interesting for a number of reasons, but the biggest one is that it can solve mathematically [...]
Penny Arcade just started a really neat Automaton story. As before, it’s largely about Carl, an automaton living in 1927 America, with the Issue of racial segregation. It’s got a lot of shout-outs to Caves of Steel, which is a good move, but says a lot more about the ugliness of humanity than Asimov could [...]
A robot learning to flip pancakes from Sylvain Calinon on Vimeo.
This starts off very funny. The ending is interesting, but the beginning is wonderful.
Since Delia Derbyshire’s initial treatment of the title theme, each version has gotten slightly worse. It’s what happens when a creative experiment is successful, I suppose: rather than learning from it to do more creative experiments (which are often unsuccessful, after all), subsequent creators often just kind of polish up the remaining artifact to try [...]
Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 – Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.
There’s music, but watch with the sound off if you must.
This is interesting to me not just for pre-rendered things like movies and TV shows, but for interactive simulation, as shown at 1:47. If we’ve learned anything from the pressures on the digital processor market, it’s [...]
A little more Academic technology from the real world. If you were to put a 1200 dpi reflective/transmissive display on each of those planes, then increase the resolution to the point of imperceptibility, then pack it full of sensors and computation, you’d get their smart Paper.
