We’ve all seen how Ken Burns brings old photos to life by panning and zooming. This clip demonstrates a striking effect of mapping a 2D photo onto a 3D surface. The animator has to clone in order to create the missing data — the background details that are hidden by foreground objects. But the end…
Yay, me. I got the MouseLook script to work in my Blender Game Engine work-in-progress. Thanks to [2.5] FPS MouseLook Script. Based on models I had already created for one reason or another, the game currently involves donuts, paneled walls, tables, and iPad projectiles. Oh, and you’re a little bot. You may have guessed that I’m not…
I love this piece, on display at the Westmoreland Museum of Art, as part of “They Practice What They Teach: Artist Faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology.” Similar:I just tried Open Shot Video Editor, a free open source toolFor years I used ScreenFlow, which offer…Current_Events"Chores" — Clip from Snow White: The Musical (Stage Right Greensburg,…
On July 8, I went on the Google+ Diet, using Google’s new social network for all my online communication. As part of the diet, I stopped using Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and several other services. I even stopped using e-mail. As I explained in my column last week, the purpose of the experiment was to see if…
Men are into Google+; ladies, not so much. Google confirmed yesterday that over 10 million people have signed up for the new social networking site, but they didnt mention that men make up three quarters of those early adopters. Instead, Mashables Jolie ODell did some digging using sites that compile these sorts of stats, and…
Predictably, Wired celebrates the freedom that comes from depending on computers instead if your own memory. (The story includes a link to Nicholas Carr’s opposing view.) By sharing and comparing our memories, we can ensure that we still have some facts in common, that we all haven’t disappeared down the private rabbit hole of our…
The personal use of the internet by BBC staff must be tempered by an awareness of the potential conflicts that may arise. There should be a clear division between “BBC” pages and “personal” pages. On Social Networking sites, you should be mindful that the information you disclose does not bring the BBC into disrepute. For…
The virtual server Seton Hill has set up for me needed some attention before it was ready for the upgrade to WordPress 3.2.1. Luke from our IT department did all sorts of techno-magic, hampered briefly when a big data transfer yesterday was interrupted by a power outage. So my site’s been down for about a…
The water table in the lobby has been redesigned since our last visit. Great big Tesla coil, in a great big Faraday cage. Similar:Most Christians don’t actually care about Starbucks cups. Here’s what we do know.No Christians in my social media feed ca…CultureUneasy Lies the Head — Tyrant: Shakespeare on PowerJohn Stubbs reviews Stephen Grenblatt’s…
Facebook’s default approach—sharing with everyone in your personal network—has created a dilemma for professors whose students want to be their online friends. Often the students inadvertently share their party pictures and other private material with their instructors on Facebook, giving some faculty members the feeling that they have crossed too far into students’ personal space.…
Anyone who thinks Google+ is fighting Facebook is thinking way too small. Hell, Google may even physically replace the internet, putting up fiber optics between Google-owned locations. All of this is going to result in a much smoother, easier to use internet. Owned by Google. ProjectPerko: The Replacement Web. Similar:Elon Musk has officially killed Twitter.…
One of my students used a SHU blog during a trip to Europe. Here she describes Warsaw: It was almost as if we were stepping into a real-to-life version of the Festival of Fools in Disney’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” I’m not insinuating that the Warsawians are fools… but there was chainsaw juggling, mile-high…
Another great suggestion from Nick Carbone, via Techrhet. lau and Caspi learned two things: first, that in general students felt that collaborating with partners improved the quality of drafts. On the other hand, the students mostly felt that their edits improved other people’s drafts, whereas other people’s edits worsened their own drafts. Blau and Caspi…
What a way to socialize the school-building kids. The 55,000-student Atlanta public school system rose in national prominence during the 2000s, as test scores steadily rose and the district received notice and funding from the Broad Foundation and the Gates Foundation. But behind that rise, the state found, were teachers and principals in 44 schools…
While 1979 wasn’t yet the year that adventure games broke really big, it was the year that Adams laid the groundwork for their doing so, for the changing of the calendar left him poised with a new company, a portable adventure-game engine, and a nice catalog of already extant games in a wide variety of…
This gossipy “hive” narrative yields little new information, despite that it has the look and feel of news (stock file videos and stills of the “Jackass” guys being Jackasses and a lame movie of the “crime scene” two hours after the fact designed, cynically, to draw hits). For journalism students, the result of such coverage…
Angry Birds Text Adventure of the Day – TDW Geeks. Thanks for the link, Josh. Similar:#MyNYPD Hashtag Promptly HijackedSomeone is regretting this PR move. …Current_EventsSpam: In Your E-Mail and on Your BlogSpam: In Your E-Mail and on Your Blog&nb…BusinessPreparing for some serious nerd time with the family this summerSet phasers to “nerd”! This summer I’ll…CultureDiaper…
Getting publicity for a post becomes easier with Google+ as publishers of contents pay a lot of attention to Google, from search engine optimization to increase the ranking on Google searches, search engine marketing keyword ads to drive traffic, and on-site advertising solutions ranging from AdSense to DoubleClick. Search rankings will increase by posting contents…
Something new to listen to while Blending. Episode 001 / Introduction | Blender Podcast. Similar:A 20 sq cm section of #steampunk #blender3d goodness. #blender3dartAestheticsApparently Facebook Doesn't Know Me Very WellI’m actually rather happy at the thought…AmusingBehind the art: The Westmoreland's 'Death of Elaine' beloved of staff and visitorsI always slow down and spend some time…
Working on some very complex stuff in Blender 3D. Here’s how it’s making me feel. That’s a 3D model, fully rigged with a posable digital skeleton. Her skin is slightly translucent, her curly hair bounces when she moves, her glasses cast a reflection. It’s actually a very satisfying thing to that I could pose her…