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Perspective techniques to extract a 3D model from a painting, nice! – Constructing 3D models of buildings is all about extracting the geometry from images using photogrammetric techniques. As such, although it goes against basic geometric principles it also lends itself to historic reconstruction via referenced hand drawn images. Over eight years ago we used […]
Charile writes – Phil, you should check out this cool Apple II stop motion rig one of my commenters made in the 80’s, I think it’s right up your alley. He had the computer control the camera and a spinning wheel of color filters. The computer rendered one frame in monochrome for each color of […]
Here’s the start of a nice looking, very retro, case mod… Celebrate the historical heritage of the modern Personal Computer..the way it should have been. While charming in its reticence, the buzzing beige rectangle under a desk hardly seems a fitting aesthetic legacy for what is inarguably the most important invention of the last 50 […]
Someone really really examined the Windows Vista DVD and found these three guys, who are they? – Link.
Here ya go – Apple’s Safari browser for PC (XP/Vista) is now on Apple’s site – smart idea from Apple, half a billion iTunes downloads, add in a browser and attract more folks to do more Appley things. The Beta 3 is also available for Mac… Link.
This is sweet a Mac mini in an Apple SE30, thanks Hans! Link.
I really like the weird converter, haven’t you always wondered… WEIGHT How many NASCAR Winston Cup Tires in an African Elephant? How many kegs of beer in an Airbus A380? LENGTH/HEIGHT How many Shaquille O’Neals in the Great Wall of China? How many Giraffe’s necks in the Weinermobile? weirdconverter.com – [via] Link.
