Archive for the ‘3D’ Category
David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Art, Computers, Conceptual, Design, Music, Science, TED talks, life, web
MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables - cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
link to this TED talk / Devid Merrill’s Siftables project / Devid Merrill at MIT Media [...]
Liz Diller: Architecture is a special effects machine
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Architecture, Art, Conceptual
In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R’s more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.
Liz Diller and her maverick firm DS+R bring a groundbreaking approach to big and small projects in architecture, [...]
Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote - TED.COM
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Conceptual, TED talks
Johnny Lee talks about building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.
Using biology to make better animation - TED.COM
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, AI, TED talks
Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people — by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. See his work now in GTA4.
Filmed Mar 2003; Posted on TED - Jul 2008
Mindnever Inspiration - TED.COM
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Art, Computers, Conceptual, Photography, Science, TED talks
Arthur Ganson sculptor and engineer talks about his work, kinetic art
that explores deep philosophical ideas. Some great conceptual
thinking and thoughts implanted in machines. Truly Amazing.
George Dyson takes us back at birth of modern computer, also he
tries to redefine concept of life by talking about evolution of
Barricelli universe. Can you imagine what will computer look like
in [...]
