gigapixel panoramas of various national parks. they use google maps to serve and navigate the tiles.
Tag: art
20 μm Thinker
Using lasers, researchers have crafted a microscopic version of Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Thinker” 2x the size of a red blood cell at 20 μm high
Augmented Pets
Modified Birdcage for Captive Birds. Using technology developed for testing aerodynamic capability, this birdcage enables the bird to experience the sensation of a long flight within the confines of the cage.
the fascination of cutting-edge culture with augmentation underscores the transhumanist trends in the making
Bathsheba Sculpture
mathematical models in 3d steel. pwetty!
Tactical Sound Garden
realtime audio mix based on the geographic location of the participant in physical space.
very headmap-ish, but sadly these things rarely exit the concept stage
Prefuse
those look pretty kick ass. but the graph fallacy probably still applies. and i bet these all involved extensive tweaking
Bloodspell
BloodSpell is a full-length animated “punk fantasy” feature film, from Machinima pioneer Hugh Hancock. In the world of BloodSpell, some people are infected with magic in their blood. When the blood is spilled, the magic comes out, to harm or to heal. These “Blooded” are driven into slums, forced to live in squalor and hiding for fear of the Church, who hunt them in order to cleanse their “taint”. But when a young monk of the Church discovers his own Blood Magic and flees to the underground pitfights and hidden power of the Blooded, everything will change…
Roger Amgwerd
Peake
seeing all these illustrations from a couple 100 years back always makes me wonder if everyone just looked wretched, or whether people genuinely had different physiognomies. micro evolution, perhaps 🙂
Video Objects
Video objects is a custom software to perspectively distort video content in realtime. The pre-distorted videos are projected from one video projector onto multiple real world 3D objects.
neat. el cheapo augmented reality.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 