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atomic resolution micrograph of multiple twinned nanocrystalline film of Si (C. Song) in the ncem gallery

This post is sort of a followup to e.g. this randform post as it covers the unseeable.

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Science and the National Science Foundation were pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
We were very pleased to see a slide of our colleague Richard Palais together with Luc Bernard among the competition winners (see above image, First place for illustration). It shows wellknown mathematical surfaces in glassy style.

glassy science is hip —> see Melli Inks work via vvork

…no not parkours again :)…just a reminder of randform writer Anuschka Kutz and Andrea Benze‘s exhibition:
“Kitchenshrine and Dogcomfort” – Rituals of everyday life. A spatial laboratory at Plan 06 – Forum for Contemporary Architecture in Cologne

in Cologne from
22.09. – 29.09.06

Exhibition opening TODAY 22.09. at 18:00
at Containerturm am Brüsseler Platz, Belgisches Viertel.
Exhibition: daily 12 — 21:00

direct link

I mentioned parkours already in an earlier post…however also this post might not be the last parkours post, as I keep watching these parkours videos. video games set to reality. redefining architecture. the fight against couch potatos..what ever….—->The above one is a rather good one (also if I dont get the end…
comments are welcome on what happened to oleg and his cellular)

In the upcoming semester Tim is going to teach geometry at the Technical University of Munich so it`s time to get an update on the latest trends in alpine customs, like these interfacing lederhosen (this is an update to this old “wearable computing post“). lederhosen by the way are perfect for high tech gadgets as you can’t wash them. (for that reason even Berlin kids were wearing them in my times…)

another interesting development is the above telescopic carbon alphorn, which is a swiss product but Alphorns are certainly also used in Bavaria. The improved transportability of this kind of Alphorn allows now for an enhanced cultural export. Next step in Alphorn evolution: the electronic Alphorn (or at least the silent Alphorrn for a start).

A new shop on Kings road dedicated to digital wellbeing.

The shop hosts – among other stars in interactive design:

BrixtonBerlinBased random international

via pixelsumo

(falls Flo das liest: auf superschicke klippslampe wird noch gespart)

art and video games seem to rise in acceptance in the art world hmm let’s say… at least the documentation 8 bit on art and games will be shown in the MOMA New York on Oct. 7 2006 8 p.m.

8 bit on youtube

via art fag city

A classic in midi-to-graphics “generative” animation is “pipedream” by Dave Crognale and Wayne Lytle. It is sold together with other works by them on a DVD compilation via their website animusic. The “pipedream”-video itself is however also downloadable via the SIGGRAPH animation site on archive.org. However if you have an ATI graphics card you can render it also in realtime via the ATI rendering-gadgets sites for MAC and Windows.

Wayne Lytle has worked also in scientific visualization, e.g. on this mathematical visualization video for string theorist Brian Greene.

some solid russian humor for the weekend.

Signs are often context-sensitive, means they have a certain meaning only in certain contexts.

In my last posts (see e.g. here) I was speaking about the nature of garment acting as a sign or also as a symbol or icon. Here the context of a sign can imply very different meanings -even just for shoes.

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