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A gallery of animated gifs of fake rocks.  Click to make them spin.

Via: Artificial Rock Factory

July 8th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

Animations of marbles

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GIF animations of marbles by Jürgen Kintscher.

May 25th, 2010 at 4:52 pm

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How to fold a collapsible background

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We recently purchased a Botero collapsible green screen.  Turns out getting it back in the case isn’t as easy as it looks.

Luckily, the internet turned up this animated gif.  Here’s how to do it without shoes.

Via: Photo.net

March 22nd, 2010 at 7:35 pm

Voxel, ribosomes

A rhibosome molecule made of voxels

A ribosome molecule made of voxels

Learned a new term today: voxel.  A voxel (short for volumetric pixel) is, at least in terms of video game design, a slightly out of date technology being replaced by what may be my other new favorite thing “height maps“.

The above image is of a ribosome molecule, though it seems like it could be an enemy from an SNES game.  On a (slightly) related note, here’s a great animated .gif of the ribosome of Haloarcula (a tiny seawater creature) by David S. Goodsell:

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March 6th, 2010 at 3:44 pm

Animated hex tube

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Via: TechnologyStudent.com – randomly found while researching ferrous metals

February 28th, 2010 at 8:01 pm

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Iscosahedron animated .gif

January 9th, 2010 at 5:08 pm