Hyper-realistic paintings
Youngsung Kim shows off how he paints his hyper-realistic paintings. This is some real talent for sure.
How easy is it to film anywhere with any background?
I love visiting the real-life places where my favorite films were shot. But very soon, that will be a thing of the past.
There probably isn’t a tv show on at the moment that doesn’t use at least a half-dozen of these tricks today. Check out how easy it is to create any scene with cheap, off the shelf computers and cameras
Google hand tracking now open source
Google has made its hand detection and tracking tech open-source, giving developers the opportunity to poke around in the tech’s code and see what makes it tick.
“We hope that providing this hand perception functionality to the wider research and development community will result in an emergence of creative use cases, stimulating new applications and new research avenues,” reads a blog post from the team.
That post over on the Google AI Blog dives into exactly how the tech works, and devs interested in getting a closer look at it can find the project over on Google’s Github repository.
Computers are for funny cat movies – even in 1968
More than 40 years ago in 1968, a team led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov created a mathematical model of the motion of a cat. The BESM-4 machine, executing a written program for solving ordinary differential equations, draws a cartoon cat. Each frame was physically printed using a standard desktop printer (using W’s to fill the drawing space), photographed, then put together into this simple animation.
Read more about it here (use google translate):
http://www.etudes.ru/ru/etudes/cat-animation/
Flotsam River Circus comes to Portland
Flotsam is a circus group that has been performing on the river between Salem and Portland.
Here’s one of their live performances they did at the waterfront in Portland this year.
Read more about them here: http://www.rivercircus.com/
Light megaliths
The art collective teamLab has returned to Mifuneyama Rakuen park on the Japanese island of Kyushu to premier a new display titled Megaliths in the Bath House Ruins for the exhibition called ‘A forest where gods live’.
Siggraph 2019 – Emerging Technologies
Arque – artificial tail
I can see some interesting cosplay coming from this…
Kyoto Marching band
I noticed the gender ratio is overwhelmingly female – quite the oppose of in the west. Wonder why that is?
100 year old lens
Photographer Mathieu Stern decided to see what kind of video he could capture with a lens he snatched from a 100-year-old Eastman Kodak camera. The footage is quite good, with a dreamy and warm quality to it.