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NES glitch art creator

NES glitch art creator

glitchNES is an open source software project for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This software causes graphical glitches similar to hardware circuit-bending. The current version is 0.2. Ben Baker-Smith of Vague Terrain explains a little bit better: glitchNES is a custom-built Nintendo ROM that uses software tricks to create visual effects reminiscent of hardware glitches. Everyone […]

Crying candle head has tears of wax

Crying candle head has tears of wax

Bust of Dierdre Candle via Twitter. รขโ‚ฌล“Like an echo from the caves of coccamaura, i came forth whilst Dierdre wept cool tearsรขโ‚ฌย รขโ‚ฌโ€œ from a celtic fairy tale.ร‚ย  The bust, “Deirdre” was a true collaboration between the two of us.ร‚ย ร‚ย  Mr. Little presented Mr. Sellers with the concept of crafting a weeping bust that cried […]

Giant fluid dynamics sculpture made of robot-glued plastic balls

Giant fluid dynamics sculpture made of robot-glued plastic balls

Um, wow. Geometric death frequency-141, as its called, was created by Czech artist Federico Dรƒยญaz. It consists of 420,000 plastic spheres, each of which appears to be about 1.5″ in diameter, glued together by industrial robot arms. The subject is a simulated liquid splashing inside an imaginary 50x20x20 foot box. Reportedly, Dรƒยญaz wrote the software to perform the simulation himself, and the software to drive the assembly process, as well. More details over at designboom. [via Gizmodo]