More Eye candy, Tobe sent me a link to Electric Sheep it is a video screen saver that is generated by harnessing the computing power of idle computers all over the world(similar to the SETI@Home project)
The program is named for Philip K Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which is loosely the basis of the Movie Blade Runner
Note: it takes a few minutes to run the first time you load it. But it is definitely worth the wait, a broadband connection is recommended.
Found this video on Youtube that was generated with electric sheep.
Written by Carlos on May 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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Ran into this the other day XaoS is a very impressive dynamic Fractal zoomer. XaoS also has a very cool tutorial/help system that explains what fractals are and how to use the program. Very easy to navigate and some of the included example are truly breathtaking. The program is very easy to use (Right click Zoom out, Left click Zoom in, Middle button drag) and has a ton of options and effects.
I used to play with Fractint way back and got close to doing my masters thesis on fractals. But have not kept up with it. I’m kind of sad to realize that the last version of Fractint was released on 9/9/99 much too long ago.
Here is a video of the deep zoom of the Mandelbrot set I’m not sure what program they used (XaoS , Fractint or something else)
Written by Carlos on May 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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I just ran into Astro Shorts a video hosting site (a Youtube for astronomy geeks). Has a lot of interesting videos (from NASA and other space).
Found this video called Powers of Ten. Starting at normal scale and then it will zoom out 10 times each 10 seconds, and then it zooms in to the sub atomic level.
Which reminded me of Nikon UniverScale , Hopefully it helps in puting things in their proper perspectives.
Written by Carlos on May 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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