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I am not sure wether this scientific study mentioned in the previous post used the right images. :-)
a comment on architecture in different contexts: two videos by Michal Levy and Pierre-Abraham Rochat
This is a follow-up to our holodust post.
“iRomance-Die Romantik der Zukunft” (Romance of the future)– is a 6 min. funny comedy by Jan-M. Studt mixing the aesthetics of 2001 and star wars with the typical aesthetics of commercials. Unfortunately only in german, but may be the mimics and gestures are enough to understand the film…
Via the blog of Tim Bruysten, also featured on hackermovies.com (both links in german)
It is sometimes interesting to observe how ideas breed. Since some years there has been Ken Perlins vision of a Laser-Leia – or err – a teddybear? – on his marvelous and famous homepage (-> which had been included in the Whitney artport!). Seems last year (more…)
At Carnegie Mellon the group around Alexei Efros developed a technique to reconstruct 3d data from a single outdoor 2d image. With impressive results.
(via slashdot)
Roberto Cuoghi, Untitled 2004
Last monday the 4. Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art under the title: “Von Mäusen und Menschen” (Of Mice and Men) closed its doors. The biennale is one of Berlins important regular modern art events.
From the press kit for the exhibition:
“Of Mice and Men” looks at life as a series of traumas and at art as an enigma that capture moments of disorientation and states of uncertainty and fragility. Anxiety and paranoia, a
impenetrable obscurity and a looming sense of suspension are some of the recurring atmospheres in the show.
I know: this link is not very fresh, but still it is worth a post. And it is indeed fresher than the link to its predecessor.
Both are Flash adventure games. The latter featuring an …um someone… inhabitant of an overcrowded planet facing an intergalactic crash. The former even an alien hijacking of a lovely dog…lots of creatures…
or: both are very poetic little treasures with a dreamlike setting and a very good meditative sound track.
Not your cup of tea, these themes? Well better decide for yourself what these games are about…
Created by the Czech studio Amanita Design the games are full of reminiscences to old eastern european illustrations and style. sweet.
Last week the Berlin Air Show ILA closed and we were happy that no plane crashed down on us. The question of why they do this show in such a densely populated spot is apparently not going together with our sense for rational reasoning.
However for the next ILA it seems batman or buckbeak the hippogriff may land in our backyard – as can be learned from the press release I and press release II of the bavarian company ESG or in the article in the daily mail.
From the article in the daily mirror I would say that the thing which apparently flies already around looks more like batman, however from ESG´s press release it seems that they want to call this thing “Gryphon”. However one thing is clear – this thing is not even a WOLPERTINGER!!
The images are from the article “Columbia Object Image Library (COIL-100),” by S. A. Nene, S. K. Nayar and H. Murase, (Technical Report CUCS-006-96, February 1996.)
The COIL-100 is a database of 7200 color images of the above 100 objects. Each object was fotographed in 72 different positions, by rotating the above black plate.
The database can be downloaded via ftp from the Columbia University server at: this link.
The collection/database was used in a realtime 100 object recognition system.
I.e. it was made in order to teach a computer to recognize/distinguish the above well chosen ;-) hundred objects. From the intro in the article:” The objects have a wide variety of complex geometric and reflectance characteristics.”
