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ShapeItUp

Proof of concept tech for 3D modelling using a gestural interface:

We present a novel interaction system, “Shape-It-Up”, for creative expression of 3D shapes through the naturalistic integration of human hand gestures with a modeling scheme dubbed intelligent generalized cylinders (IGC). To achieve this naturalistic integration, we propose a novel paradigm of shape-gesture-context interplay (SGCI) wherein the interpretation of gestures in the spatial context of a 3D shape directly deduces the designers’ intent and the subsequent modeling operations.

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visualgraphic: CCCE L’ESCORXADOR

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:32:46 -0400

visualgraphic:

CCCE L’ESCORXADOR

"The same process works going forward in time; in essence every one of us who has children and whose..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:43:18 -0400

“The same process works going forward in time; in essence every one of us who has children and whose line does not go extinct is suspended at the center of an immense genetic hourglass. Just as we are descended from most of the people alive on the planet a few thousand years ago, several thousand years hence each of us will be an ancestor of the entire human race—or of no one at all.”

- The mosaic of our shared ancestry can be drawn forwards and backwards. Not only can we look to the past and cherish our shared ancestors, but we, too, will become the shared ancestor of everyone a thousand years beyond us.

You know … if we have kids.

(via The Atlantic)

(via jtotheizzoe)

betype: -acertaintype.tumblr.com

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:39:10 -0400

betype:

-acertaintype.tumblr.com

inspirezme: This stunning Pocket Watch designed by People...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:07:40 -0400

inspirezme:

This stunning Pocket Watch designed by People People is grabbing the attention of many with its super minimal approach. The designers behind the watch made a deliberate choice to develop a pocket watch rather than a wristwatch, the preferred modern approach of keeping time. They aimed to cite the evolution of the timepiece to primarily a personality statement worn less and less for practicality.

“A watch is something that fits into people’s frame of reference, even though the function has gone from showing time to showing style.”

(View more here)

thedsgnblog: Eliane Cadieux | ...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:05:05 -0400

thedsgnblog:

Eliane Cadieux | http://elianecadieux.com

Graphic designer based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Focused on graphic design, illustration, photography and packaging.

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thedsgnblog: Alice Endrychová | http://alic.ic.cz “The...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:58:07 -0400

thedsgnblog:

Alice Endrychová | http://alic.ic.cz

“The idea was to construct an universal, easily producible and functional package for KOH-I-NOOR products. This packaging can be increased according to the needs and requirements of the other products. Package is made of one piece of bended paper. Completion does not require any glue.”

Design Student based in Zlin, Czech Republic. Focused on package design, graphic design and product design.

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ianbrooks: Texstyle Creatures by Jeremy Kool To showcase some...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:55:58 -0400

Textstyle Creatures by Jeremy Kool / posted by ianbrooks.me

Textstyle Creatures by Jeremy Kool / posted by ianbrooks.me

Textstyle Creatures by Jeremy Kool / posted by ianbrooks.me

Textstyle Creatures by Jeremy Kool / posted by ianbrooks.me

Textstyle Creatures by Jeremy Kool / posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

Texstyle Creatures by Jeremy Kool

To showcase some of the high-end fabrics from Texstyle, Jeremy remastered some of the animal kingdom’s greatest hits using CG modeled textures that look amazingly realistic and soft to the caress. I want to pet them so hard.

Artist: Behance / Blogspot / Twitter

visualgraphic: The Black Keys

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:51:56 -0400

visualgraphic:

The Black Keys

Photo

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:34:19 -0400

typejunkie: (via Love on Behance)

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:33:16 -0400

typejunkie:

(via Love on Behance)

ex0skeletal: (via Feather Art Print by Freeminds | Society6)

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:31:07 -0400

ex0skeletal:

(via Feather Art Print by Freeminds | Society6)

ex0skeletal: (via Rhyming Life and Death cover artwork by ~xaay...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:33 -0400

ex0skeletal:

(via Rhyming Life and Death cover artwork by ~xaay on deviantART)

jtotheizzoe: Common Descent There’s a famous old anecdote about...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:13:21 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Common Descent

There’s a famous old anecdote about Charlemagne that’s been used for ages to explain how interconnected we are among our biological pasts. It has been said that everyone of European ancestry is related to Charlemagne, the great King of the Franks, born in 742 AD. If you’re European, you’re royalty. How is that possible?

I’ll tell you another tidbit first: Not only do all Europeans share Charlemagne as an ancestor, they share everyone alive at the same time as Charlemagne as an ancestor. Everyone who had kids, anyway. Let me explain:

Everyone alive has two biological parents. They each have two parents themselves, for a total of four grandparents. For x number of generations that you travel back in time, you have 2^x direct grandparents of increasing separation. Extrapolate that back to Charlie’s time, and you’d need 1 trillion grandparents to cover all your ancestral bases. Michael from Vsauce did a video about it. Since that’s far more people than have ever been alive, we need to engage some incest to solve the problem. Not banjo-applesauce incest, just a bit of redrawing our family trees into family webs.

Somewhere, far enough back in the web of grandparents, we will find a person whose lines connect to every single person who comes after them. That zig-zagged trail of shared genetic history ends surprisingly recently (for Euros, again): A common European ancestor around 1400 AD. Go a bit farther, and we find a common Earthling ancestor around 3,000 BC. It’s neat stuff. But it’s all based in mathematical models, not real genetic data.

Until now. USC and UC Davis researchers Peter Ralph and Graham Coop have surveyed the genomes of 2,257 Europeans in order to put some real data behind those models. Because of the random shuffling of chromosome fragments that created your father’s sperm and your mother’s egg, you, your siblings and your cousins all share varying chunks of DNA. People who are more closely related share more of these chunks. Depending on how many chunks are shared between two people, we can calculate their approximate relation to each other. Using 2 million shared sequences and a lot of math, they proved the mathematical models correct. Turkish people are more related to other Turks than to someone from Portugal, but they are related enough that, not only do they share one common ancestor a few hundred years ago, but they share every ancestor if you go back a mere thousand years. The models guessed that a long time ago, but now we have the data to prove it.It’s likely that these patterns extend to other regions of Earth, although the numbers might be slightly (but not that) different.

Next time someone in your neck of the ethnic woods points out a famous relative or claims blue-blood descent, remind them that they aren’t so special. All street-sweepers are royalty, all nobles are peasants, and we are all Kings and Queens.

Read more at NatGeo. Have more questions? Also check out the great FAQ on the project from the researchers themselves.

2headedsnake: John Evans ‘Regal Ceremony’

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:43:02 -0400

2headedsnake:

John Evans

‘Regal Ceremony’