Two weeks ago we covered YouTuber mcwolles‘ remarkable full-motion illusion appearing to show M.C. Escher’s impossible Waterfall in real-time operation. Those of you hungry for an explanation may be interested in this diagram from Boing Boing reader David Goldman, who thinks the video was shot using forced perspective, with a model as illustrated, in two cuts spliced together at the 0:45 mark.
Innovator and Imagineer Dan Reetz talks book scanning, hardware hacking, camera control, and cultural impact at Personal Digital Archive 2011, hosted by The Internet Archive in San Francisco.
In this video, Steven Bathiche from Microsoft Applied Sciences shows off some imaging and human interface technologies that are currently under development at Microsoft. They’re working on something called an optical wedge, which they’re using to add a Z dimension to touch screens and deliver 3D images to your eyes without the need for glasses. […]
Day 343: The Ultimate Bubble-Maker (And see the follow-up: Day 353: Big Bubble Fail) We’ve covered the inspiring work of Charlie Visnic a number times before. We love the projects that he does and the motivation behind them. Here, let’s let Charlie explain: I have been doing one creative thing a day for almost an […]
Simple and satisfying craft technique from Photojojo: Take pictures of your favorite object, print them at 1:1 scale on inkjet canvas, and sew the pictures together to make a hollow cloth version that looks like the real thing. Use it as a pouch or a slipcover that advertises what it contains or, alternately, conceals it. [via CRAFT]
Nice forced perspective illusion from YouTube user mcwolles. [via Boing Boing]
With digital photography as the most prevalent method of capturing pictures these days, nothing says nostalgia like these 35mm panoramas that are captured over the entire height of the negative. In this excellent Instructable by Darin Barry, you’ll learn how to hack a cheap medium format camera to expose your image so that it bleeds […]
