a satellite capable of generating artificial meteor showers will be in orbit sometime in the next 2 years. From 500 kilometers above Earth’s surface, the orbiter will shoot metal spheres the size of blueberries into the upper atmosphere. As these particles move across the sky at 28k kilometers an hour, the spheres will burn into brilliant crisps—painting the night with colorful streaks on demand.
Tag: art
Robot rocks sorter
a machine that sorts stones from a specific river according to their geologic age.
Cat Art
artist significant others are a problem
Artistic Style Transfer
this is insanely good, i especially like the starry night treatment. Deep networks trained on artistic style, then used to apply those styles to video.
HTML Rube Goldberg
Classic Programmer Paintings
Programmers at work maintaining a Ruby on Rails application
Animal welfare in violent games
The deer is ‘playing itself’, with all activity unscripted… and unexpected. In the past 48 hours, the deer has wandered along a moonlit beach, caused a traffic jam on a major freeway, been caught in a gangland gun battle, and been chased by the police.
Free candy van
On his bucket list was to buy and a van to cruise around in, and go to Burning Man. His disgusting and/or funny van made local news headlines in Sacramento when he parked it on his way to Burning Man. Apparently the photo was taken by children too young to understand the ‘joke’, and has since gone somewhat viral.
this is great trolling, with people acting predictably dumb.
400 Years of London
Claes Jansz Visscher’s 2m engraving of medieval London, dated 1616, is one of the most iconic images of the pre-fire city. Now British artist Robin Reynolds has redrawn the panorama to depict the London of today, from the same viewpoint and scale.
35 ka Language precursors?
potential precursor to language: consistent visual forms across 1000s of kilometers, 35 ka ago
Gregor J. Rothfuss 