2D to 3D

October 19, 2006

Researchers of Carnegie Mellon University has managed to teach a computer to recognize and transform 2D images into 3D.

via YouTube, duh.

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Frederic Chaubin: Soviet-Era Architecture

Found this via Building Blog

Last month, PingMag ran a short interview with photographer Frederic Chaubin. Chaubin has spent the last several years documenting Soviet-era architecture in post-Soviet nations, with a focus on the odd, the unique, and the eccentric. "If you see the photographs all together in a small space like here, you might feel like there are quite a lot of these buildings around, but actually there are very few of them. You have to imagine that if you go to each Russian town you will only find one or two very special buildings there. But most of them are very boring and look very similar, and those here are the exceptions." I just like the above building, really].

You can see more of these incredible architecture at Ping Mag.

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Changing Views of Spacetime

October 15, 2006

In this animation, the vertical direction indicates time and the horizontal direction indicates distance, the dashed line is the spacetime trajectory ("world line") of the observer. The lower quarter of the diagram shows the events that are visible to the user, and the upper quarter shows the light cone- those that will be able to see the observer. The small dots are arbitrary events in spacetime.

The slope of the world line (deviation from being vertical) gives the relative velocity to the observer. Note how the view of spacetime changes when the observer accelerates.

From wikipedia.

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"Saturday Pictures" Dailies, Pt 1

A film I shot this summer, tentatively titled "Saturday Pictures," directed by my friend Ben Campbell, finally got its dailies transferred.

He put together a 5 minute long sequence of snippets from the first 3 days of the shoot...the amount of dailies totalled something ridiculous for a film its length. But, check this out.

In addition to this, we also shot in a supermarket and house, those will come later.

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