Year: 2010

In the Makers Market: Golden ratio calipers

In the Makers Market: Golden ratio calipers

New Zealand-based Weirdsky Industries offers these unusual three-legged calipers which express the golden ratio (Wikipedia), dividing the distance they span into two sections such that

The golden ratio is ubiquitous in the natural world, and in art and architecture at least since ancient Greece.

The calipers are made from laser-cut stainless steel, hand-assembled using brass rivets, and are produced in three standard sizes, with custom sizes available on request.

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1968 “ASCII” animation from Russia

In honor of DIY Movie Making Month, here’s Eastern Europe’s favorite cat and mouse team, Worker and Parasite!

OK, so, the mouse actually starved during collectivization. But there’s a cat, anyway, and it’s a very early example of “computer” animation. Sort of. YouTuber avatarlemon explains:

Soviet computer animation was made in 1968. A group of russian physicists and mathematicians with N.Konstantinov in the head of it created mathematic model of the cat and its moving and realized this model in the program for the computer “BESM-4”. Computer printed hundreds of frames on the paper using alphabet symbols and then they were converted to the cinefilm.

[via Slashdot]

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