Nikon confirms 36.3 megapixel D800, we go hands-on
Yes, yes. More megapixels doesn’t necessarily mean better quality, blah blah blah. But c’mon… it’s still a DSLR with 36 freakin’ megapixels!
Surface Detail is a computer generated short video created by Tom Beddard, featuring a hypnotic and ever-changing landscape of 3D fractals. To find out more about how this video and its author, I interviewed Tom via email:
Quito: Hello Tom, thanks for this interview. Tell us a little about yourself.
Tom: Hello! I am an Englishman now living in Scotland just outside Edinburgh. At university I studied physics and then went on to do a PhD in laser physics. However, while doing my PhD I got more and more interested in web development (no small influence of the first dot com boom) and built up a small portfolio. Once I had my doctorate I decided to change career and got a job doing web development specialising in content management and ecommerce systems.
I now work at a company in Glasgow called 55 degrees currently working on all the interactive software for a brand new transport museum opening later this year.
Quito: How long have you been experimenting with computer generated imagery?
Tom: I’ve been using Flash since v4 but in 2008 after I redesigning my site yet again I decided to focus on more generative graphics using Flash and other technologies.
Quito: What is it that drew you to fractals and made you want to express them visually through computer graphics?
Tom: I’ve always had an interest in raytracing ever since I spent an hour watching mirror balls render on my dad’s old Mac LCII. I love the little details in anything visual and fractals have an infinite amount of detail! It was only in late 2009 that new algorithms were developed on fractalforums.com by some serious maths enthusiasts that true 3D fractals became possible.
Creating my own raytracing programs to render these new algorithms was a very rewarding project and there are still some fascinating structures yet to explore.
Source: vimeo.com
Plastic Fantastic: the Photos of Brian Walker
Greasy Spoon by Brian Walker
Brian Walker is a photographer and a digital artist. I think these words on Walker’s own site describes his work perfectly:
Welcome to the cheese factory where dreams are made and broken. ”Viewing this work is the equivalent of a photographic excursion into the mind of a serial filler of funtime plastic-fantastic realities. Brian Walker is a world renowned digital artist, with a playfully kitsch postmodern view on the world at large. View them with a grain of salt in hand ready to rub into your own proverbial visual wound that he taketh pleasure in inflicting” - H R Wienheimer
Watch for the Blind
Sentio is a digital watch concept for the blind and partially sighted users, cooked up by designer Matthew Wagerfield. In his own words:
Sentio is a revolutionary timekeeping device that merges the boundaries
between mechanical timepieces and contemporary digital watches. Sentio
has been developed as an interactive watch for both blind and partially
sighted users. However, due to the universal format in which the time
is displayed, anyone can easily use it.
The face of sentio exhibits
a pair of 7-segment displays that would normally be found on digital
alarm clocks, watches or any other digital numerical display. This pair
of 7-segment displays outputs either minutes or hours depending on the
mode that it is dynamically set to. However, the 14 segments evident on
the face of sentio do not conform to the expectations of lighting up;
since this would be superfluous to visually impaired users. Instead,
these segments are mechanically animated. Each segment has the ability
to rise up 1mm above the face of the watch so that it can be both seen
as well as touched. This visual and tactile display provides a fully
inclusive format of displaying the time to anyone; regardless of
impairment.
Via Gizmowatch
