Their more recent image of Botticelli’s La Primavera consists of 28B pixels, 3000x the resolution of a consumer digital camera. The pixel density has also increased, from 580 to 1500ppi (magazine and book printing are typically 300ppi).
Tag: art
Land of giants
anthropomorphized high voltage pylons
Rephotography
overlays extant WWII-era photographs on their corresponding modern settings. The results are both spooky and stunning.
Stormtroopers 365
these are extremely awesome. i could not stop laughing.
Nomadic Plants Robot
Vegetation and microorganisms live in symbiosis inside the body of the Nomadic Plants robot. Whenever its bacteria require nourishment, the self-sufficient robot will move towards a contaminated river and ‘drink’ water from it.
Cinema Fantastico
the camera in
always gives epic shots by obeying the law of thirds and other tricks. this is more mediated cinema than gameplay, but: awesome.
Watershed Down
The 2009 Venice Biennale opened this week with an unexpected and quite beautiful piece of performance art. Artist Mike Bouchet had built a one-to-one scale replica of a typical American suburban home that he planned to install on floating pontoons in the Venice Arsenale basin. He called the project Watershed. 1 of the pontoons capsized, and the entire house sank to the bottom of the canal—an unintentional yet utterly perfect coda to the house’s own built-in commentary. Now, a fake generic American suburban home will add its ruins to the underwater archaeology of Venice.
Elevated by RGBA and TBC
a complex, rendered 3d scene in 4k. but how?
Tweenbots
human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. One man turned the robot back, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”
Fucking Hell
Hieronymus Bosch for our times
Gregor J. Rothfuss 