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prostheticknowledge: Evolució by Onionlab / Mapping Festival...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:23:03 -0400

Evolució by Onionlab / Mapping Festival 2013

From the mailbox, a projection-mapping project:

Hello!
I am contacting you to present Onionlab’s most recent piece, Evolució

You will also find some high-resolution pictures here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67507166@N07/sets/72157633486998073

And here is a brief description of the project:

Evolució

Onionlab presents Evolució, a piece that revolves around the graphic and sound abstraction of the concept it is named after: evolution. It is construed as transformation, construction and alteration of reality through time; evolution as a discontinuous creation process as well.

Created with 3D projection mapping techniques, this time, Evolució was projected onto the façade of the Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève, though the piece takes the evolution concept even further: It was conceived as an open transformation process so that it can also be adapted to different façades and projection surfaces, and so that Evolució can continue its transformation process.

jtotheizzoe: “Evolution is fluid.” - Digital Darwin

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:33 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

“Evolution is fluid.”

- Digital Darwin

wnycradiolab: kateoplis: Reiner Riedler’s shots of original...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:58:37 -0400

wnycradiolab:

kateoplis:

Reiner Riedler’s shots of original filmrolls from The Deutsche Kinemathek

The Unseen

Get it while it lasts, folks. The movies of the future will be all digital, all the time.

circuitslave: blimation: http://www.teefury.com/ May 19th for...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:55:47 -0400

circuitslave:

blimation:

http://www.teefury.com/ May 19th for 24 hours!

Cool Boba Fett / Akira styled shirt for $11

wired: NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:54:19 -0400

wired:

NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the various distances traveled by wheeled machines on other worlds.

Space has never been so adorable.

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:02:00 -0400

smarterplanet: A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest...

Thu, 02 May 2013 03:01:19 -0400

smarterplanet:

A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie

Scientists are known for loving their work. Biologists tend to their cultures and animals. Physicists polish their exquisite machines like sports car entusiasts treat vintage Ferraris. So do chemists love atoms? Apparently they do. At least enough to write a love story with, and about them.

IBM scientists have created the world’s smallest movie using individual atoms. It’s the story of a boy and his playful atom buddy, drawn in stop motion and with each quantum pixel positioned using a scanning tunneling microscope. Every frame is magnified a stunning 100 million times!

This amazing feat was accomplished by using a charged atomic needle to drag single carbon monoxide molecules (the individual atoms we see are one side of that two-atom molecule) around on a copper substrate. I’ve posted a little bit about these feats of atomic art before, with these “quantum corrals” and “ferrous wheels”.

See those ripples around each atom? They remind me of pebbles being tossed into a still pond. They are actually ripples in the electron field of the copper surface below! It’s a reminder that, contrary to many textbooks, electrons behave more like waves than particles following an orbit. And like any other wave, they can form intricate interference patterns. Check out this previous post for more on that.

The hope is that manipulating atomic structures like this may lead to even greater information storage capacity. Imaging all the world’s books and movies on your mobile phone at once!

Here’s a “making of” movie from IBM, featuring the sound of atoms being moved as well as the encouraging sight of several female team members.

This makes me as happy as atom boy there.