artforum berlin 2006
October 6th, 2006
some impressions from the artforum 2006 – Berlins biggest art fair, which closed its doors two days ago.
classics games
October 5th, 2006
no more water this time. The above image looks like the famous game pong and yes indeed I was happy to see this game again…. but this post is not (only) about pong.
watery simulations
October 4th, 2006
Chemical reactions according to Stanfords CG lab
water again: water simulations are cool. However the big question is: WHAT IS A SIMULATION? I.e. at what point do we accept a thing to look physically realistic? Do we want it to look realistic?
swimming and skating robots
October 2nd, 2006
I am thread safe – i.e. I am still keeping water as a subject after the last post. However I have to say that I find this rollerskating robot from Hirose robotics lab actually cooler as the above swimming snake robot. yes – its almost as cool as the famous boston mule.
strongly recommended: Hirose lab movie gallery
this is not really a follow up post to this old dainty walker randform post :).
alphabet soup – new work by daytar
September 30th, 2006
We put a new work on our media art page called alphabet soup.
day of the figurines
September 29th, 2006
Last night was the world premiere of the artistic game “Day of the Figurines” by Brighton’s Blast Theory hosted by First Play Berlin, Trampoline an event which is part of UK’s radiator festival.
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Single-particle interference observed for macroscopic objects
September 29th, 2006–just a link to phys.org to what seems to be a very interesting experiment.
twisting the meaning
September 28th, 2006
The “Deutsche Sprachrat” (german language council) is holding a competition for collecting german words, which diffused into other languages – sometimes by acquiring a new meaning in the process.
Satyajit Ray
September 27th, 2006
visualizing meaning
September 26th, 2006
From: “Rotational energy surfaces and high-j-eigenvalue structure of polyatomic molecules”, by W. G. Harter and C.W. Patterson, Journal of chemical physics, vol 80, 4241-4261 (1984)
There is a nice project at Cornell called visualizing meaning, which is a down-to-earth approach to the vast field of information visualization.
For the project all 1,943 Cornell Faculty were asked to respond to the following question:
Of the many charts (graph, map, diagram, table and ‘other’) you have seen in your life, which has been the most important, remarkable, meaningful or valuable?
(The above image had been submitted by a Mr. Greg Ezra.)