Moiré and more
May 30th, 2006
mathematik.com has a mixture of experiments and visualizations of math content. And their radial Moiré is about as nice as our rand-Moiré…
penguin.swf
May 28th, 2006we might get an up to date flashplayer for linux in the end but until then at least there is a blog about its development at adobe: penguin.swf
Merci to Etienne for the info.
virtuSphere
May 27th, 2006
some history of big number names
May 25th, 2006
an exellent review on the millions and billions and millirads of this world (german only).
the image comes from here (french this time) which is quoted in the above article.
25 divided by 5 is…
May 24th, 2006
one can find the answer at youtube… Read the rest of this entry »
tyger
May 23rd, 2006
as spreeblick pointed out: a must see. this short film mixes real footage with computer graphics classical 2d animations and puppet animation for a unique look.
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neither flat nor black
May 22nd, 2006
I wish flatbackfilms would make their inhouse animation software public…
I missed Pi day
May 20th, 2006
There are days you better not forget. Then there are days that are a catastrophy to forget. And then there are days you didn’t even know of in the first place and if brought to your attention you wish to forget as soon as possible. Like Pi day.
Just a little remark for the ignorant: Pi is not a rational number and in particular it is not equal to 22/7.
I was gratified…
May 19th, 2006…to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
Mark Twain