robot nominated to carry Olympic flame
Scientists at Aberystwyth University have nominated a humanoid robot to carry the Olympic Flame as part of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay…
this is what the patent for a dinosaur suit looks like
ON-ART Corp., Tokyo (“a top artistic structure airbrush paint production company in Japan”) have just been granted their US patent (7,997,991 B2) for a “Costume suit of large size animal.”…
some good tips for data wrangling on a budget
Evan Luzi, who runs the camera assistant blog The Black and Blue (and who also wrote a guest post here on NFS), takes a look at the crucial but unheralded position of data wrangler…
first digital 3d rendered film
This is really neat. It’s a very very early digital 3D rendered film (family lore is that it’s the first, ever). It looks old because it is. It was created in 1972 by Ed Catmull…
pico dolly: pint-sized wheels forcameras
Since we wrote about CineSkates last week, the tripod-on-wheels project has already raised nearly $200,000 in preorders…
Inkling uses Sonar to turn doodles into vectors
Inkling, from graphics tablet titan Wacom, automatically turns inky sketches into digital vector drawings, bridging the gap between freeform doodling and computer artwork. It’s interesting to know how the whole thing actually works…
