ever since i saw the amazing cascade of plastic chairs video at SIGGRAPH 2004, I have been addicted to doug l. james’ work on collisions between deformable models – another way of saying floppy things running into each other. although he may have legitimate research in mind, there’s nothing but pure emotional attachment to plastic […]
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string theory
before the spanish conquest, the inca empire (1476-1534 AD) spanned farther than any on earth at the time – from argentina to colombia. but there is no evidence of a written language to communicate across these vast distances. instead, the inca are survived by a unique language of knots called quipu that was used to […]
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daily disaster
this amazing map contains real-time information on disasters of all kinds – earthquakes, bird flu, airplane crashes, meltdowns – happening around the globe. via worldchanging
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michelangelo 3d
stanford’s digital michelangelo project has a free application that allows you to explore michelangelo’s david and the unfinished saint matthew, both from the accademia in florence in an easy 3d browser that can show you sides of the statues you wouldn’t otherwise see.
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renaissance gadgets 1
this is the first of many posts from the science history museum in florence (museo di storia della scienza) – an armillary sphere (sfera armillare) representing the entire earth and plotting the extents of the sky in carved and guilded wood. commissioned by ferdinando 1 de’medici and built by antonio santucci in florence in 1588-1593 […]
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body beauty
i first saw the bodyworlds exhibit at the california science center and had to go back – it contains the most spectacular collection of dissected human bodies that have been plastinated (preserved with an infiltration of silicone) so that you can see the muscles, nerves, organs – even blood vessels in ways i never imagined […]
DIY flipbook
noah fields from the medialab’s physical language group (run by john maeda) designed this program to generate flipbooks from animations, either by drawing them directly in this app, or by downloading this app to your mac or this app to your pc…
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atomic beauty
like water droplets, atomic blasts have a beauty and grace that botticelli would have been proud of. pictured is a rapatronic photograph of an atomic detonation a few tenths of millionths of a second after detonation, the black stick at right being the 100-meter tower that supported the bomb (via futurefeeder.com). many more beautiful images […]
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