Software, hardware, art – a blog of process and findings
Weekends are for internet rabbit holes: watching Jurassic Park (for the millionth time) and discovering some really interesting research on how toads see. Above are stills from a video by researcher Jörg-Peter Ewert, testing how toad neurons react to various worm-like stimuli. (Warning, the video includes some images of lab animals.)
The pattern testing, and subsequent neural network, seem very relevant to computer vision work today (bonus for day-glo yellow too).
From a video on a German robot factory (which features music that sounds like it’s from the end of an anime movie), showing this large facility for testing the robots. Looks like some kind of prison yard workout facility.
Some experiments converting images to a series of differently-sized grids. Not sure where this is headed, but I like the competing patterns and emerging forms. (Click for full size – lots more details.)
An unknown type of video glitch (seen while playing the new Sigur Rós video), made up of amazing geometric swirls and patterns.
Google’s translation algorithms are kind of amazing, but it seems to have some trouble with Norwegian in this video. Here’s a sample from the first minute:
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Turn on “closed captioning” for the entire translation.
Blocky, pixelated video compression from video of a house and a stone block.
An interface view of the chess-playing computer Deep Blue, via Robots Rising.
Video (yes, video: recorded with two cameras and converted to the image we see here) of a virus attempting to enter a cell. A complex problem, likened in the article to trying to film something the size and speed of a hummingbird flying around in a space as large as a backyard.
Via Princeton
A video of what, as far as I can tell, is a “screw-type log splitter”. Fascinating and weird.
