Posts tagged with "art"
Precise Images of Buildings That 3D Scanning Enables by Scott Page Design
3D scanning—though it’s been around since the 1960s—has been in the news of late, with Harvard using the technology to recreate ancient statues and MakerBot announcing a desktop scanner last month. But cheaper, faster, and more accessible 3D scanners aren’t just revolutionizing how we print terrifying models of our own faces. They’re also changing how we understand the city.
A fascinating story about urban-scale 3D scanning published on the Atlantic Cities this week explores how a Bay Area architect named Scott Page is using a 3D scanner to generate super-accurate models of historic and dilapidated buildings.
Page’s system takes a series of photographs and patches them together based on how light bounces off each surface. Rather than taking weeks to survey an old building, architects can now generate precise dimensions in just a few hours. Because the scanner uses color photographs, the models are also incredibly beautiful, expressive documents—Page compares them to the first photographs ever made. “There is a magical quality to point cloud imagery, similar to the earliest photos that froze time onto small metallic plates,” he writes on his website.
New on Haute Macabre
This chandelier is tearing down the ideal interior design of my future home in my head because I want to accommodate it.
A Framed papercraft piece I did based on Paranorman’s Angry Aggie!
Don’t ever listen to the ParaNorman soundtrack while papercrafting, lest you be victim to overwhelming feels.
My 2nd papercraft piece and I am super happy with it. It came out scarier than I had planned. Whoops! This one will be up for sale soon, and I will be finishing up my bigger papercrafts and post those as well!
Angry Aggie, Cardstock 5x5
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A particularly excellent lady of Cyberpunk from Korean artist Juno Jeong, probably best known for his work on Lineage II.
(via fuckyeahsciencefiction)
Tomb Raiderrrrrrrr
Sam Wolfe Connelly
The Tomb Raider team set up an art show/launch event this week (March 8th-17th) for the new game, with prints for sale by different artists in NYC and San Francisco. There’ll be a signing event I’ll be attending on Sunday in NYC.
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You won’t make it.
I don’t take unsolicited advice from directionless people who piss me off and remind me why we don’t talk very often.
Friends do not tell friends that every decision you made leading up to this moment is down the toilet. Friends don’t imply that you drop everything you’re doing now, derail all your plans - fuck your goals, fuck finishing school, fuck the experience of it all, and settle for something “practical” like study graphic design online (I’ve done way more than that only to find out that it’s not for me).
I’ve been underestimated enough times because, yes, I’m known to be forgetful and naturally slow to process and respond. But friends don’t tell friends rubbish. Friends do not open with “You won’t make it” as quasi-practical as it may seem. Even if that plan sounds so fucking illogical, you ought to have an ounce of faith in your friend. At least enough faith in them to know they’ll make a comeback IF they fail. Enough to watch them TRY.
I didn’t say “You won’t make it” when I spotted you doodling and noticed how good at drawing you are. I didn’t say “You won’t make it” when you said you wanted to make comics. I didn’t say you won’t make it - instead I encouraged you to focus on art, accompanied you to print your indie comics, helped you find good places to consign them, and watched them sell out. Fast. What have you done on your own since? I named a long and pretty damn concrete list of things I’m going to do during and after finishing school which surely shut you up.
Here’s something vital everyone must know about everyone: Even if a person asked for advice, they mostly just need SUPPORT.
Death to kneejerk Why-don’t-yous. Death to You-should-haves. And most of all, death to You-Won’t-Make-Its.
Good fucking riddance, man.
