Via Geekologie...
Not actually recognizable until about 1:10 in (wait for it to load and skip to it), but absolutely mindblowing from there:
Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Shockwave Traffic
It turns out that traffic is not just caused by that lady on her cell phone... but I will continue to think so anyway. Life is better when there is someone to blame.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Adobe Photo Lens
Ever been so tipsy that you have to cover one eye to see straight? I think this lens is based on the same principle.
Friday, February 15, 2008
John Koza's Invention Machine
"What Koza has done is to automate the creative process. To begin, the invention machine randomly generates 75,000 prescriptions. It then analyzes them in KOJAC, which assigns each a fitness rating based on how close it comes to a desired set of specifications-in this case, a wide field of view with minimal distortion. None of the 75,000 members of the first generation will be usable wide-field telescopic eyepieces. But a few of these primitive systems will be marginally effective at focusing a wide field of view, and a couple others might slightly reduce distotrtion in one way or another. From there, it´s Darwinism 101. The invention machine mates some systems together, redistributing characteristics from two parent lens systems into their offspring. Others it mutates, randomly altering a single detail. Other lenses pass on to the next generation unchanged. And then there are the cruel necessities of natural selection: The machine expels most lenses with low fitness ratings from the population, kills them off so their genetic material won´t contaminate the others."
Thursday, February 7, 2008
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