Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
An now for something beautiful in a mathematical sort of way. Evil Scientist Labs present Christmas Chaos. Simply put, it's a mega high resolution real time ray traced fractal generator system made from coloured lights and Christmas tree ornaments. Look like a veritable science wizard when you absent mindedly put one of these together at the breakfast table on Christmas morning.
One thing I greatly enjoy about doing this site is that fact that I run across so many cool things on the web. Some are practical others are neat too look at and some are just down right awesome. This would be one of the awesome finds. Coming out of China amidst copyright problems with a US based pinhole camera company, the EightBanners camera company has surpassed themselves in the area of beautiful and original pinhole cameras. The latest designs feature very professional looking aluminium body pinhole cameras that make pin sharp images on 120 format film. If a metal camera isn’t your cup of tea then I suppose you could buy one of their wooden cameras. Still the same high quality construction and a beautiful eye for detail. And the features of these are stunning. Soon you will be able to equip your camera body with a turret of pinhole types. Single pinholes, slits, crosses, zone plate… Wow! Best of all it looks like they will sell individual parts as well. Building a nice wooden camera body but you don’t want to make a shutter? No problem, you can get one here. Go have a look at their catalog and the online gallery of shots taken with these cameras.
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You know, sometimes you just want to kick ass and take names for free. These days finding that all joyful free method to do this is tough. That’s where True Combat Elite enters the pretty picture. It’s a gun toting kick ass first person shooter (FPS) that’s free. Yeah, ya heard me right, free (no, not like beer). It’s built on the popular steel belted free Wolfenstein 3D game engine and features some impressive graphics. Games by gamers, what a concept.
BTW, before the whiny Mac and Linux users start going on about how they get left out of the ultra violence all the time you should know that the game can be downloaded for all the platforms out there (ok, PC, Linux and Macs)
Truth be told I’m a bit of a PC video game virgin so I’m not up on all the latest and greatest in the world of game design (although I hear that F.E.A.R.
Fear the robot uprising? The robot insects are among us already!
Borrowing from both science fiction and science fact, Insect Lab’s customized insects are a celebration of natural and man made function. Specimen’s are presented in either custom made black shadow boxes or glass bell jars, allowing for display anywhere.
[via Brass Goggles]
As seen on Boing Boing:
Flickr’s got an awesome Xmas easter-egg: if you add a photonote called "ho ho ho hat," Flickr draws a Santa-hat on your pic; make one called "ho ho ho beard" and you get a snowy white beard.
Too much fun. I wonder if there are any more…
Nice work here. There is no shortage of clever and talented people on the ‘Net.
The Sphere Project is a website dedicated to the evolution of technical and creative 3D sphere design. The purpose is simple; to create the most captivating and visually appealing sphere from our provided scene using your 3D program and renderer of choice.
Nice work here. There is no shortage of clever and talented people on the ‘Net.
The Sphere Project is a website dedicated to the evolution of technical and creative 3D sphere design. The purpose is simple; to create the most captivating and visually appealing sphere from our provided scene using your 3D program and renderer of choice.
Already over 1,100 people have submitted their works for the project (that’s a lot of balls, eh?) So go download a scene file and get rendering!
(I hope they produce a calendar of the best works, that would like nice of the old lab wall.)