Archive for 2006
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
99% of todays math literature are typeset with a typesetting language called “LaTeX”. There is basically no other way nowadays to publish mathematical texts in a decent form. In earlier times publishing mathematical texts was tedious. (more…)
posted by nad | art and design, communication, math | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
The internet was also nice before… (more…)
posted by nad | 3d, communication, software | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
subsequent entry made on Sept 17, 08: title of artwork: “guck es mit blumen bevor sie durchsagen”, artist: Einar Fälltig
…because it’s summer in Berlin!
I am not sure wether this scientific study mentioned in the previous post used the right images. :-)
posted by nad | perception, visualization | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 30th, 2006
Please drag with mouse over eyeball
This applet was originally done for another project than just our blog…
but after all this preparatory “eye work” we thought we could publish it anyways. Please visit also our daytar site.
posted by nad | 3d, art and design, communication, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Scientists in Newcastle found out that images of eyes attached near an “honesty box” in the psychology department’s common room made people more honest. (more…)
posted by timh | art and design, perception | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
President George W. Bush presents a National Medal of Technology, Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 to Ralph H. Baer of Manchester, N.H., during ceremonies in the East Room of the White House. Baer was honored for his groundbreaking and pioneering creation, development and commercialization of interactive video games. White House photo by Eric Draper
image public domain via
wikipediaYesterday night Andreas Lange of the Computerspielemuseum showed a video of a visit of Ralph H. Baer on June 16 in Berlin.
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posted by nad | berlin, games | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
We can’t get enough of Plasma bubbles. This times very very hot bubbles though.
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posted by nad | physics | 3 Comments »
Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Check this out.
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posted by nuka | music, UK | 1 Comment »
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
a comment on architecture in different contexts: two videos by Michal Levy and Pierre-Abraham Rochat
image from “Giant Steps” by Michal Levy
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posted by nad | 3d, animation, architecture, art and design, communication, music, perception | No Comments »
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
“Project Reality” was the first preliminary name of a game console that hit the Japan and US market under the name “Nintendo64” on June 23 1996 (which of the names sound more visionary to you?). The working title probably expressed the idea of creating a true graphics working horse (the hardware was developed together with sgi a leading graphics workstation company at that time — who remembers the O2 workstations that were released in the same year?)
(image credit)
posted by timh | games | 1 Comment »
