Month: October 2011

NYCR Book Arts Workshop

For all the bookworms out there, this is your event! NYC Resistor is hosting a “super-mega DIY Book Arts workshop” this Saturday, Oct. 8. What will you learn? Book binding techniques Paper engineering mechanisms An introduction to printing with the Intaglio press For one afternoon, it sounds like you’ll learn quite a bit! You can […]

The XKCD “Giant Head” Enhanced Depth Perception Project

The XKCD “Giant Head” Enhanced Depth Perception Project

Many of you will probably have seen this one from late August, already. I haven’t found any indication that Mr. Munroe has actually done this, yet, but there’s no reason the idea shouldn’t work, in principle. To do so requires a viewer with an individually addressable video display for each eye, but these are not too hard to come by. And large-parallax static stereograms taken using widely-separated synchronized cameras are well known.