Archive for June 17th, 2006

no popping eye balls

Saturday, June 17th, 2006
ball_lightning.jpg

but popping ball lightning (or at least ball lightning like plasma clouds). These are generated by an underwater discharge of a lousy 60 Ampere (so not for pocket use). Experiment (and image) are from Max-Plack-Institute für Plasmaphysik (german). An englisch translation is available at physorg.com.

posted by timh | 3d, physics, visualization | 2 Comments »

tracking the dust

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

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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…)

posted by nad | 3d, art and design, math, perception, physics, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »