Another 38 Amazing Wallpapers | Paintbits - Life in Colors. Another 38 Amazing Wallpapers Posted on June 12th, 2008 under Desktop Customization After the big success that was my first Wallpaper compilation I’ve decided to make another one. Don’t forget to leave comments (if possible) in the authors pages to thank them for their work. Abstract > Infinity Blue > Flove > After Midnight > The Horizont > The Roadside Daydream > Little World > Microbot Depthcore > Angel Strom > Escape Space Art > Blue Moon > Phoenix Nebula > Etherlight > Aries > The Heat Of Love > Eye Minimalistic > Humilitas > Solar > The charm of the seventh wave Landscape > Strawberry Feelings > Drug Free Zone > A Trip to elsewhere > Virus > Am Nature > Paint your world > Floating-Isle > Igaer > Kuri > Our ride to the rectory 2.0 Brands > Apple Color [No Longer Available] > Agua Extreme [No Longer Available] Miscellaneous > Photosynthesis > Step forward little Tommy > One Day in the Big City > Mariquita > Captured Beauty WP VIII > Butterflies & Hurricanes [No Longer Available] > Oscar Poll Loading ... Resources
Game Over Online Magazine - The Game Has Just Begun The Official PlayStation Blog Prehistoric Calculus: Discovering Pi Pi is mysterious. Sure, you “know” it’s about 3.14159 because you read it in some book. But what if you had no textbooks, no computers, and no calculus (egads!) — just your brain and a piece of paper. Could you find pi? Archimedes found pi to 99.9% accuracy 2000 years ago — without decimal points or even the number zero! How do we find pi? Pi is the circumference of a circle with diameter 1. Say pi = 3 and call it a day.Draw a circle with a steady hand, wrap it with string, and measure with your finest ruler.Use door #3 What’s behind door #3? How did Archimedes do it? Archimedes didn’t know the circumference of a circle. We don’t know a circle’s circumference, but for kicks let’s draw it between two squares: Neat — it’s like a racetrack with inner and outer edges. And since squares are, well, square, we find their perimeters easily: Outside square (easy): side = 1, therefore perimeter = 4Inside square (not so easy): The diagonal is 1 (top-to-bottom). Squares drool, octagons rule Cool!
BMO WORLD - Home 25 More Most Incredible Photoshop Tutorials Elite By Design Web Design & Photoshop Inspiration Follow me on Twitter blog > 25 More Most Incredible Photoshop Tutorials 25 More Most Incredible Photoshop Tutorials After the astonishing success of our first installment of 23 Most Incredible Photoshop Tutorials, I’ve decided to make a much needed update to features some of the newer tutorials that have been released over the last month or so. Like I’ve said before – it’s all about the process, not the end result. Creating The Windows Vista Lighting Effect Golden Sunsets With Gradient Maps Turn Day Into Night Create A Sleek, High-End Web Design From Scratch The 5 Essential Photoshop Reflections Loading Interface Design A Cartoon Grunge Website Layout Part I: How To Add Flaming Decals To A Modern Car Design Part II: How To Add Flaming Decals To A Modern Car Design Create Cool Neon Effects Making A Crystal Ball Create A Stunning Wallpaper Design Create A High Gloss Graduation Hat Icon Design The Firefox Logo In Photoshop Super Retro Game Cartridge Design
The Spring Project DimP - A Direct Manipulation Video Player DimP is a video player prototype that allows to browse video clips by directly manipulating their content. The way it works is quite simple: DimP automatically extracts object motions from the videos. Videos Demo You can download DimP for free (Windows). Paper Dragicevic, P., Ramos, G., Bibliowitcz, J., Nowrouzezahrai, D., Balakrishnan, R., and Singh, K. 2008. You can also download the slides from our talk at the CHI '08 conference (60MB Zip file with pptx, pdf and avi files). Is this Really Direct Manipulation? Yes. Whether it is true direct manipulation or not is actually an ill-posed question. So what's being manipulated, exactly? Related Videos The idea of manipulating autonomous entities defies the ordinary and as such, has been explored by a few artists. Similar and Parallel Work The idea of using direct manipulation for controlling video playback was first introduced in 1999 by Takashi Satou and his colleagues from the Japanese company NTT-AT [1,2,3]. Subsequent Work Contact
Virus2 - Today's Time-Waster - Download Squad There has been a virus going around my office this week which hasn't been fun. I've got a much better virus that everyone will love spreading around your workplace -- except your boss. I'm not talking about the latest brand of crypto-zoological themed influenza, but rather about Virus 2. The idea behind the game is to spread your virus, represented by a color, as quickly as possible. Sound tedious? [Thanks Jordan!] Tags: game, time waster, TimeWaster, timewasters, virus