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3D Printed Sculptures Come Alive When Spun Under A Strobe Light

3D Printed Sculptures Come Alive When Spun Under A Strobe Light
John Edmark is an inventor, designer and artist who teaches design at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. One of his latest creations is a series of 3D-printed sculptures designed with proportions corresponding to the Fibonacci Sequence. When Edmark's sculptures are spun at just the right frequency under a strobe light, a rather magical effect occurs: the sculptures seem to be animated or alive! The rotation speed is set to match the strobe flashes such that every time the sculpture rotates 137.5º, there is one corresponding flash from the strobe light. What makes the sequence so incredibly fascinating is its proliferation throughout nature, such as in the branching of trees, the arrangement of leaves on a stem, the flowering of baby broccoli, a nautilus shell, or even the spiral of galaxies; and that's just to name a few. Regarding his sculpture series, Edmark states on his website: I employ precise mathematics in the design and fabrication of my work. What did you think of the art? Related:  Geek

14 idées utiles qui vous empêcheront de jeter parfaitement des choses réutilisables 14 idées utiles qui vous empêcheront de jeter parfaitement des choses réutilisables Parfois, la maison parait encombrante, donc tout nous gêne. On a hâte de tout jeter afin d'avoir de l'espace. Mais il se trouve qu'on ait besoin après de l'objet jeté et on retourne l'acheter. Un conseil : avant de jeter ce bouchon de la bouteille aléatoire ou la boîte de tissu, pensez comment faire pour les réutiliser. Vous y trouverez votre compte : la 7 et la 12 me conviennent parfaitement ! 1. 2. 3. Coupez la tige d'une fleur blanche à la forme d'un signe plus et de mettre chacune des extrémités dans des différentes coupes remplies de colorant alimentaire dilué. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. On the web

How Augmented Reality Will Work" Video games have been entertaining us for nearly 30 years, ever since Pong was introduced to arcades in the early 1970s. Computer graphics have become much more sophisticated since then, and game graphics are pushing the barriers of photorealism. Now, researchers and engineers are pulling graphics out of your television screen or computer display and integrating them into real-world environments. This new technology, called augmented reality, blurs the line between what's real and what's computer-generated by enhancing what we see, hear, feel and smell. On the spectrum between virtual reality, which creates immersive, computer-generated environments, and the real world, augmented reality is closer to the real world. Augmented reality is changing the way we view the world -- or at least the way its users see the world. In this article, we'll take a look at where augmented reality is now and where it may be headed soon.

Grain Silos In Western Australia Get A New Paint Job (17 pics) Pics | 28 Apr, 2015 | Views: 3632 | The CBH Group grain silos in Northam, Western Australia recently got a new paint job courtesy of FORM for PUBLIC 2015. Grain silos have never looked so colorful. Do you like it? It is just one of the thousands of posts that we have on the Acidcow.com. Please visit our main page to see other great pictures and videos! Making Social Media Analysis Easy - NodeXL - Episode #72 Episode 72: – Making Social Media analysis easy with NodeXL During this podcast we interview Marc Smith one of the creators of NodeXL. NodeXL is a free and fantastic tool for doing advanced social media analysis – right inside of Excel. We cover the following with Marc, all of which should be of solid interest to any software company interested in doing advanced social media analysis as part of their competitive intelligence, market intelligence, or market research efforts. Why NodeXL was created in the first place.The importance of social media research today.What NodeXL can do for social media researchers.The other tools that Marc recommends for social media analysis. For more free competitive intelligence resources go to: www.cascadeinsights.com/resources Sign up for podcast updates – here

Le zoom bien trop puissant du Nikon P900 Voilà, on en est finalement arrivé à ce moment gênant où les technologies sont tellement puissantes qu'elles nous effraient. Le dernier exemple concret ? Le zoom du P900 de Nikon, capable de balayer la notion de vie privée d'un revers de manche, en toutes circonstances ! Sans rire, si vous aviez toujours rêvé de vous prendre pour un espion, investissez sans plus attendre dans le P900 de Nikon. Disponible depuis fin mars pour 599€, il est doté d’un zoom ridiculement puissant, qui vous permettra de saisir n’importe quel détail : de voir la moindre salissure sur l’aile d’un avion naviguant dans le ciel, les cratères de la lune, de capturer tous les éléments d’un paysage. Ce zoom, le NIKKOR 83x, est en effet extensible jusqu’à 166x avec la fonction Dynamic Fine Zoom. Sinon, on vous invite à lancer les 3 vidéos qui suivent, qui vous permettront de vous faire une idée de l’efficacité de l’appareil lorsqu’il se met à zoomer :

50 Crazy Ideas To Change Education 50 Crazy Ideas To Change Education by Terry Heick Below are 50 ideas for a new education. Note, most of these are about education as a system rather than learning itself, but that’s okay. It’s often the infrastructure of learning that obscures anyway. Few of them may work; even fewer would work together, and that’s okay too. Make connectivity and interdependence the catalyst for all learning.Stop claiming every child will be proficient. Image attribution flickr user daveparker; 50 Crazy Ideas To Change Education; 50 Radical Ideas In Education My Geometric Paper Art For Eight Emperors I am Matthew Shlian, an artist/designer working in Ann Arbor Michigan. One team I work with studies self-assembly on the nano scale. They are using advanced systems to “shake” modular polyhedral forms into nesting arrangements. These computers simulate shaking these forms until they are so tightly packed that there’s nowhere for them to go. Picture hundreds of 20 sided dice in a large box. After being shaken until the forms are tightly compact, the team takes a virtual slice from the Y axis. Take a second slice, but this time from a different axis and a whole new pattern appears. More info: eightemperors.com I’ve never been good at “math” but I understand things geometrically Ara 117 in Black, paper 18 x 24 x 1/2 in. Lattice, paper 8 x 10 x 5 in. Bloom, paper 4 x 4 x 4 in. Sleeper, paper 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 1/4 in. Ara 142, paper 24 x 18 x 1/2 in. Ara 117 in Silver, silver foil paper 18 x 24 x 1/2 in. Cutout Flipbook in Black, paper 7 1/2 x 1 x 4 in. Process 10, paper 10 x 13 x 1/2 in.

Free Photo Editing Software (Photo Editor) Download Un site prouve que la majorité des cartes du monde sont fausses Par Francetv info Mis à jour le , publié le Le Groenland est bien moins vaste que ce que l'on croit. Ce pays, représenté sur la plupart des cartes du monde comme bénéficiant d'une superficie presqu'aussi grande que celle du continent africain, est, en réalité, à peine plus grand que la seule République démocratique du Congo. Le site "The True Size" ("la véritable taille"), dont est issue l'image animée ci-dessous, permet de s'en rendre compte facilement, rapporte, mardi 8 septembre, Vox.com. Cette initiative vise à dénoncer notre représentation du monde, tronquée par la projection de Mercator, utilisée dans la plupart des cartes, y compris Google Maps. Pour se rendre compte de cette déformation, le site "The True Size" propose d'entrer le nom d'un pays, puis de le déplacer sur la carte du monde. Ils espèrent désormais "que des enseignants utiliseront leur site pour montrer à leurs élèves à quel point le monde est vaste". Recevez l’essentiel de l’actualité chaque matin

Take aim at innovation, with students in the center In September 2012, I packed up my Prius, left my patient wife, and drove around the United States for 89 days and 10,000 miles visiting 64 schools of every flavor and size to find out how they are preparing students for a rapidly changing world. I asked questions and recorded learning with more than 600 teachers, administrators and students. In setting up the complex matrix of this trip, many of my hosts asked, “What would you like to see when you are here?” The journeys of discovery in my life have started with open goals and few preconceptions, so I left the agendas as open ended as possible, with one caveat: I was not interested in seeing a 1:1 laptop program or talking with teachers about their tablet rollouts. As others have said, technology in learning should be as ubiquitous as air, and there is nothing innovative about students and teachers breathing. Technology is not innovation What would Dewey do? Flipping the classroom is not enough But what if we really flipped learning?

Geometric Tattoos (73 pics) Pics | 9 May, 2013 | Views: 12316 | Geometric tattoos don't always look cool, but they are graphically gorgeous. Do you like it? It is just one of the thousands of posts that we have on the Acidcow.com.

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