Posts tagged with "science"

ryanpanos:

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.

fuckyeahcrystals:

Ulexite, NaCaB5O6(OH)6 · 5 H2O.

Ulexite grows in clusters of aligned fibers. Perpendicular to the fibers, the material is able to transmit light due to total internal reflection (upper photo). If you turn the stone on its side, it is completely opaque (lower photo).

Forget jewelry, give me these!

baphovomit:

ewok-gia:

Diaphonized snake specimen. When a specimen in diaphonized, it is reduced to its skeletal frame and stained for added bone visibility. It is ideal for scientific or student study of the bone structure of various animals.

Photo credit: Igor Munhoz

kew beanz

I want a shelf full of these.

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emergentfutures:

Alpha Dog Robot Hears, Obeys Commands From Humans… For Now [Video]

yesterday saw the release of Alpha’ Dog’s newest trick — the ability to follow spoken orders issued by a human commander. At this point, Alpha Dog is one magical cricket away from being a real dog, and one more obedient than I’ve ever had. You can get a load of the robot responding to his master’s voice, and then following its human leader like a lovesick metal puppy in the video


Full Story: Geekosystem

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if you follow the paintbrush with your eyes while not moving your head, it forces you to use emdr which is a therapeutic technique to calm anxiety/panic. watching fish swim causes the same effect.

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pastelmorgue:

arpeggia:

Angela Strassheim - Evidence

Evidence is a group of photographs taken at homes where familial homicides have occurred. Long after the struggles have ended in these spaces, despite the cleaning, repainting and subsequent re-habitation of these homes, the “Blue Star” solution activates the physical memory of blood through its contact with the remaining DNA proteins on the walls. The black and white images are long exposures – from ten minutes to one hour – with minimal ambient night light pouring in from the crevices of windows and doors, capturing the physical presence of blood as a lurid glow.

ART

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invisiboy:

NASA

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highfunctioningshirtbuttons:

Our class has the best Christmas tree.

cleopatrashorns:

reverseentropy:

I thought I’d make a photoset of some neat sciencey tattoos. In particular, the first is one I’ve never seen before and good god is it gorgeous.

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bubble chamber tattoos are awesome <3 

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fasciner:

Pictures that capture the tiny gems of scientific discovery by Caleb Charland.

elojovago:

Catvey Dent

GASP. Chimerism! :D

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So cool!

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paleoillustration:

paleoillustration:

Sinosauropteryx prima (2007) by Julius T. Csotonyi.

-Digital painting / photographic composite

A metre-long compsognathid dinosaur, Sinosauropteryx prima, forages for prey in a Cretaceous Chinese forest. This dinosaur is among the growing number whose remains include preserved feather-like integumentary structures, strongly suggesting their close kinship with birds.

And now I reblog myself because I have no shame and I love this picture so much.

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gracewashko:

ANIMAL INSIDE OUT AT THE NHM WITH BODY WORLDS.

A beautifully macabre exhibition! I want to see it so badly!

I must book tickets for this, it looks amazing!

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/animal-inside-out/index.html

Saw the human version but THIS OMG I must see before I die!