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Category Archives: craziness
mocap for trees
Computer scientists at the University of Bath have developed a new way of making life-like animations of trees using video footage of the real thing. Not only does it create animation of the tree’s movement, but it also creates a 3d model from the same video footage. Um, holy crap!
Dr Peter Hall and Chris Li, [...]
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have legos, milk and a webcam? then you have a 3d scanner my friend.
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cameron talks about the technology behind avatar
VFX World Magazine talks to James Cameron about some of the technology used to make Avatar. You will probably see a lot of these types of articles around the web over the next little bit, and I was finding the “avatar over-saturation” a bit… well over-staturated, however after seeing the film it is all well [...]
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dense realtime optical flow
Holy crap! are you kidding me?! This is a realtime computation of dense optical flow, and even though the image is fairly low, I can’t believe they are able to do it at all. The color encodes the direction of moving pixels, and intensity their speed. Implemented using CUDA, running on a single GeForce 8800 [...]
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transformers 2 concept art | ben procter
Ben Procter’s transformer 2 concept art displayed at conceptartworld.com. Check out Ben Procter’s web site for some amazing looking maya playblasts and test renders of the transformer stuff… kind of jaw-dropping.
Transformers 2 craziness at amazon -forget the story watch the CG frame by frame for xmas.
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using coordinates for instant cloning
A really interesting bit of research using a coordinate based approach for instant and immediate cloning of large regions. Read more information on the technology in the white-paper. Make sure though you download the demonstration cloning app available for both mac and windows.
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ProFORMA, Feature based Online Rapid Model Acquisition
Qi Pan, Gerhard Reitmayr and Tom Drummond in the Division of Information Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department developed this little bit of craziness called ProFORMA. ProFORMA is a system designed to enable on-line reconstruction of textured 3D objects rotated by a user’s hand- holy crap! ProFORMA was a winner of ISMAR Best Demo Prize of 2009. For [...]
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hologram on an iPhone: iHologram by david oreilly
I have always been a fan of David Orleilly’s animations so when I watched this, I got pretty excited – its the cat from the animation Please Say Something!
The iHologram iPhone application works by assuming that a viewing angle will be between 35-45 degrees, which is more or less the viewing angle when the phone [...]
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socalled – you are never alone
I stumbled across this delicious bit of weirdness the other day from Benjamin Steiger Levine, via changethethought. Craziness!
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your favourite image editing app will scale this wrong.