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A LED’s thing by future factories

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According to Heise online the german government in its function as Presidency of the European Council wants to come to an agreement for the new EU passports before the end of July. This may spur the discussion about finger prints in passports on an european level.

->for DIY directions of how to make an artificial fingerprint mask from an arbitrary fingerprint see computer magazin c’t page 102 (unfortunately in german and not online)

I am aware of the fact that it may be funny if a mathematical physicist speaks about theatre.

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Ist das ein goldener Schnitt? Is this a golden mean? Ceci un nombre d`or?

Besides the already mentioned digital technique of rapid prototyping the digital technique of laser cutting was under scrutiny at the designmai exhibition. See above image of a gold foil cut by laser by Tord Boontje. You can see the shape of my body reflected as shadow while taking the photograph.

As the interested randform reader knows I like to report about popular experimentation trends in science (like e.g. this post about resonance rice or this post about cornstarch music (which is linking also to the famous diet coke experiments, whose popularity seems to be unstoppable)), here is a new trend, namely: ripping phone books in half.

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Not the newest news, but still noteworthy – the demo “debris” by Farbrausch, which was the winner of the demoparty breakpoint in April. The demo is a windows executable of 177 kByte! The trailer reminds a bit of sometimes and sometimes of float and Kapitaal.

A video of the demo can be found on youtube

As promised they have made the tool for generating the procedural textures available now: it ist called .werkkzeug 3 TE (while the tool is free, the texture generation library needs to be purchased).

“sich kreuzende Blicke”

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image source wikipedia

new scientist reported about tests performed on a recent conference in which radio networks are used for wireless communication, a feature commonly called cognitive radio.

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A constant nuisance when vacuum cleaning are cables (see above image) since they easily get tangled up and catch dust. I always wondered, why there is no widely available system of e.g. adapters hooked directly to consumer electronics in order to avoid too much “cable spaghetti” – analogous to the solution of a computer blade.
People from IBM made this instructive video in order to display that blades could still include in principle a noble solution.

The use of color in sculpture is a very difficult issue–

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