Watch Pixar’s New, Kinda Freaky Animation Technique
“Stable neo-Hookean flesh simulation” makes animated bodies look more real. Continue reading Watch Pixar’s New, Kinda Freaky Animation Technique
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Technologists Use Augmented Reality to Return Stolen Artwork
Thieves stole over $500 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 28 years ago. Now, technologists are using Apple’s ARKit to bring the paintings back. Continue reading Technologists Use Augmented Reality to Return Stolen Artwork
Curved Wood LED Lamp Needs No Fancy Tools
Those of us who aren’t familiar with woodworking might not expect that this curved wood and acrylic LED lamp by [Marija] isn’t the product of fancy carving, just some thoughtful design and assembly work. The base is a few inches of concrete in a plastic bowl, then sanded and given a clear coat. The wood is four layers of beech hardwood cut on an inverted jigsaw with the middle two layers having an extra recess for two LED strips. After the rough-cut layers were glued together, the imperfections were rasped and sanded out. Since the layers of wood give a …read more
This Trippy Google Earth Animation Shows All the Patterns Humans Make Around the World
Páraic McGloughlin turned man-made patterns into a high-speed kaleidoscope of earth. Continue reading This Trippy Google Earth Animation Shows All the Patterns Humans Make Around the World
Massive Shift Register Switches Lights
Sometimes you have to switch a light. Maybe it’s an LED but sometimes it’s mains-powered. That’s not too hard, a transistor and a relay should do it. If you have to switch more lights, that’s not too bad either, as long as your microcontroller has enough free GPIOs. But, if you need to switch a large number of lights, like 256 of them, for example, you’re going to need something else.
[Jan]’s project didn’t switch quite that many lights, but 157 of them is still enough of a chore to need a creative solution so he decided to use a …read more
This Farmer Sent a Message to Tesla’s ‘Spaceman’ Using Cows
Derek Klingenberg’s “cow art” is a clever mix of math and cattle. Continue reading This Farmer Sent a Message to Tesla’s ‘Spaceman’ Using Cows
RGB Disk Goes Interactive with Bluetooth; Shows Impressive Plastic Work
[smash_hand] had a clear goal: a big, featureless, white plastic disk with RGB LEDs concealed around its edge. So what is it? A big ornament that could glow any color or trippy mixture of colors one desires. It’s an object whose sole purpose is to be a frame for soft, glowing light patterns to admire. The disk can be controlled with a simple smartphone app that communicates over Bluetooth, allowing anyone (or in theory anything) to play with the display.
The disk is made from 1/4″ clear plastic, which [smash_hand] describes as plexiglass, but might be acrylic or …read more
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Check Out These Amazing Sculptures Made From 4,000 Pounds of Old Electronics
Benjamin Von Wong wants to raise awareness about e-waste with his hyperreal sculptures. Continue reading Check Out These Amazing Sculptures Made From 4,000 Pounds of Old Electronics
Internet Artists Invaded the MoMA With a Guerrilla Augmented Reality Exhibit
“Hello, we’re from the internet” is an art project that took over the MoMA’s Jackson Pollock room without permission. Continue reading Internet Artists Invaded the MoMA With a Guerrilla Augmented Reality Exhibit
Behold the Giant Eye’s Orrery-Like Iris and Pupil Mechanism
This is an older project, but the electromechanical solution used to create this giant, staring eyeball is worth a peek. [Richard] and [Anton] needed a big, unblinking eyeball that could look in any direction and their solution even provides an adjustable pupil and iris size. Making the pupil dilate or contract on demand is a really nice feature, as well.
The huge fabric sphere is lit from the inside with a light bulb at the center, and the iris and pupil mechanism orbit the bulb like parts of an orrery. By keeping the bulb in the center and orbiting the …read more
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