Hand-drawn animation in music video
Here’s a neat, mostly animated music video with roughly 3,000 frames drawn by hand. You should check it out!
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Math Monday: Mathematical lathe work
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics A lathe is used to turn wood into baseball bats, spindles, and other shapes with rotational symmetry. It can also be applied to making many types of mathematical models. Bob Rollings made this construction from spindles that form the edges of an icosahedron inside of a dodecahedron. […]
The Home Scientist video: Where to get lab chemicals
MAKE’s science and chemistry author, Robert Bruce Thompson, has a new installment of his video series The Home Scientist, on acquiring chemicals for your home lab. This video is a nice companion to Bob’s piece in the Make: Science Room on the same subject: Chemicals on the cheap. See Bob’s YouTube channel for all of […]
DIY 3D photography using Processing
Over on O’Reilly Answers, Andrew Odewahn offers up a technique and a Processing script for creating “true” 3D photographs using anaglyphic stereoscopy. I tried these images on my 3D glasses and they look great. DIY 3D photography with Processing
Math Monday: Modular Kirigami
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics With paper and scissors and patience, you can make an amazing variety of mathematical forms. The paper sculpture below consists of twenty identical components that form a complex linkage. They lock together without glue in a very symmetric arrangement. If you want to try this, the template […]
Origami hang gliders, hope for humanity
Every once in a while, something gets submitted to us that resonates, tickles, informs, and/or inspires on a really deep, satisfying level. This is one of those items. Everything about it. The project itself, these super-cool origami airplanes, made from phonebook paper, the obvious dedication of the teacher who made this video and teaches his […]
Listening to light on a drive thru NYC
Eric Archer takes us along on a ride through NYC at night – with soundtrack courtesy of photodiode-to-audio circuit. The variety of sound produced may surprise you, considering how many of the light sources look so similar. Interestingly enough, some headlights end up sounding a lot like car/truck horns (keep an ear out for the […]
