Photos: Raising the Costa Concordia - In Focus. After spending more than 600 days partially submerged near Isola del Giglio, Italy, the wreck of the Costa Concordia was successfully rolled upright last night. The cruise ship capsized after striking a reef on January 13, 2012, killing 32 passengers and crew members. The complex salvage operation, known as "parbuckling," was the largest and most expensive in history: It cost $800 million and involved months of preparation. The actual parbuckling took 19 hours, and when it was complete, the ship's horn sounded above the crowd's shouts and cheers. Gathered here are images from the past 613 days in Tuscany -- from the initial disaster to today's righting of the Costa Concordia. [38 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: View of the Costa Concordia taken on January 14, 2012, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio. 32 passengers and crew members drowned after the Italian ship with some 4,200 people on board ran aground.
Ariel Shamir's Homepage. By Tao Chen · Zhe Zhu · Ariel Shamir · Shi-Min Hu · Daniel Cohen-Or We introduce an interactive technique for manipulating simple 3D shapes based on extracting them from a single photograph. Such extraction requires understanding of the components of the shape, their projections, and relations. These simple cognitive tasks for humans are particularly difficult for automatic algorithms. Thus, our approach combines the cognitive abilities of humans with the computational accuracy of the machine to solve this problem. Our technique provides the user the means to quickly create editable 3D parts— human assistance implicitly segments a complex object into its components, and positions them in space.
Structure-Aware Hair Capture. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), July 2013 Existing hair capture systems fail to produce strands that reflect the structures of real-world hairstyles. We introduce a system that reconstructs coherent and plausible wisps aware of the underlying hair structures from a set of still images without any special lighting. Our system first discovers locally coherent wisp structures in the reconstructed point cloud and the 3D orientation field, and then uses a novel graph data structure to reason about both the connectivity and directions of the local wisp structures in a global optimization. The wisps are then completed and used to synthesize hair strands which are robust against occlusion and missing data and plausible for animation and simulation. We show reconstruction results for a variety of complex hairstyles including curly, wispy, and messy hair.
(BibTeX) Linjie Luo, Hao Li, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz. PDF file (13MB) MP4 video (183MB) ZIP file (400MB) Hao Li's project page. Incredible Timelapse-like Aging Animation Made from Family Portraits. The video above is equal parts mind-blowing and unsettling. Created by filmmaker Anthony Cerniello with help from a couple of animators and a photographer, it’s a timelapse-like animation that captures the process of aging in a way we’ve never seen before. Trying to show the process of aging in pictures is not a new idea. Usually it involves time-lapse photography and a willing subject — more often than not one of the photographer’s children. But Cerniello’s creation is much more fluid, gradual, and maybe even “insidious” if you’re not fond of the idea of aging. Unlike any of the aging time-lapses we’ve shared before, this one crawls, the aging itself almost unnoticeable at times. As Cerniello puts it in the description, he wanted to create the perception that “something is happening but you can’t see it but you can feel it, like aging itself.”
To create this effect, Cerniello first brought photographer Keith Sirchio to his friend Danielle’s family reunion last Thanksgiving. 3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013. The Life of Kenneth: My First Burn. This last week, my buddy Marcel and I attended Burning Man; a festival "dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. " It was an unbelievably huge experience, being a city that grows out of the middle of the Nevada desert and is the home of 68,000 people for only one week. Our motivation to go was to see and meet the people behind all of the amazing applications of technology out in the middle of the desert. We found some others who had the same motivation, and a lot more who were there for totally different reasons.
It was fascinating to get to meet both types of people, and in the end I've come home with so many new ideas that I'm still trying to digest. Preparation I've already written an entire blog post on the building of my truck's cargo/canvas rack. Due to scheduling, we weren't able to roll out for BM until Tuesday, putting us there about 48 hours after the gates opened. We spent the ride up getting more and more excited about getting to BRC. Our Camp Hey look! Photos du journal. The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever. By Internet standards, a perfectly timed photo occurs when two of the following three conditions are met: 1. Perfect Place 2. Perfect Time 3. Perfect Angle Sometimes the holy trinity of perfectness is achieved and you get an Internet classic like so many of the photographs below.
There are countless galleries of these images floating around. I tried my best to compile the most representative of this concept. Enjoy! Photograph by MARTIN BERNETTI (via rusrep.ru) If you enjoyed this post, the Sifter highly recommends: