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…more Beardyman action!

holoBeardyman

Kinda goofy but interesting at the same time!
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This panoramic view encompasses the entire sky as seen by Two Micron All-Sky Survey. The measured brightnesses of half a billion stars (points) have been combined into colors representing three distinct wavelengths of infrared light: blue at 1.2 microns, green at 1.6 microns microns, and red at 2.2 microns. This image is centered on the core of our own Milky Way galaxy, toward the constellation of Sagittarius. The reddish stars seemingly hovering in the middle of the Milky Way’s disc – many of them never observed before – trace the densest dust clouds in our galaxy. The two faint smudges seen in the lower right quadrant are our neighboring galaxies, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds.

Record grooves under an electron microscope

http://www.synthgear.com/2010/audio-gear/record-grooves-electron-microscope/

Simpa’s new experiments gallery

bunch of cool flash experiments

http://www.simppa.fi/blog/gallery/

demosceners once again proving their worth in this web world… whilst you’re there, check out his original cosmos, one of those sites that features ambiguous navigation, cheerfully driving some to tears. of course, i don’t cry…

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps

Mandelbrot Fractal Set Trip To e214 HD

mandelbrot.jpg

Mandelbrot Fractal Set Trip To e214 HD from teamfresh on Vimeo.

Beardyman …very cool worth a watch if you got the time!

creeepy!

Robot baby

JSFL + Flash. Add stop(); to first and last frame of all movieclips

Using flash, ever had to add a stop frame to the first and last frame of all your movieclips in the library?

This script will do so for you!

Definitely save your FLA first, and definitely keep a backup of it too – There’s no undoing here, unless you want to try and anti the code to undo it all…

Suggested method is to drag all your movieclips into a new movie, run the jsfl file, and drag your movies back into your working file.

Save the script below as addstops.jsfl or similar:

var len = fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items.length;
var i;

for (i=0; i < len; i++) {

	var item = fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items[ i ];	
	var itemtype = item.itemType;
	if ( itemtype == "movie clip" ) {

		var frames = item.timeline.layers[0].frames[0].duration;

		fl.trace( 'movie clip found: ' + i + ' with frames: ' +  frames );
	
		item.timeline.addNewLayer();
		// would have thought layers[1] should be required next... but no
		item.timeline.layers[0].frames[0].actionScript = "stop();";
		item.timeline.insertKeyframe( 1 );
		item.timeline.insertKeyframe( frames - 1);
		item.timeline.layers[0].frames[ frames - 1 ].actionScript = "stop();";
		
	}
}

many thanks to shane mcartney's work here.

Now... what do I do about a code blog... will this do?

Timelapsus from Physalia Studio

Timelapsus from Physalia Studio

screamyguy’s fractal robot

“…I built a robot whose sole purpose in life was to create an even smaller robot just like himself… So much like himself, that this robot endeavoured to create yet another tiny robot, ad infinitum.”

screamyguy.net/fractal

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Robo hand!

This is REALLY cool….

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8313037.stm

Neocity

Wicked 3d animation. sexual baby…

Neo City from Hao on Vimeo.

andre michelles awesome flash granular synthesis

caught this a few days ago at fotb. andre michelle has already done heaps of cool online stuff, including the hobnox audio tool. this stuff isn’t new, but happening in flash within a web browser… wow…

granular

… you’ve gotta page through to about page 20, looking for title ‘Granular Synthesis’… click right arrow at the bottom… then click the start button.

then you want to load in a wav file – ‘import wav’ … if you’ve got no ideas, try the amen break

next panel down, set the bars to 4 if you’re using the above amen break, bpm to whatever. handy to set resolution to 1/16ths, and snapping on, and start drawing lined and beziers etc… hit play. select a line and press delete to move.

voila. legend. lots of other cool stuff in the kling klang demo, and of course, his blog/labs… cheers to joa ebert too.

Awesome visuals

Steak with optional sauce at an extra cost

When you’re browsing the menu at random establishment, the duck comes with an orange plum sauce, the fish with a lemon butter drizzle, the lamb shank with a tomato jus… and the poor steak has the optional extra sauce for £1.50. Since when does a steak not warrant this sauce by default? Often the steak is the most expensive item on the menu, so can the sauce not be included with this hefty price?

How has this come about… perhaps there was a period when non sauce eaters (wimps or fungiphobics) asked for the steak without any sauce, and then requested a discount for the minimised consumption. This is ridiculous, but if true, burn in hell anti saucites.

That there sauce is sitting in a huge pot in the back of the kitchen, or waiting in tupperware for a quick microwave nuke for your saucy loving. The cost of production of this sauce, well, can’t be much… perhaps you could make a good profit from selling sauce alone if you can move 20 ml for £1.50.

But the irony remains in the alternate sauces… so you’ve gotta pay for this gourmet concoction, but not the prepackaged goodies on the table… when you sit down for a BLT and chips, it’s likely you’ll open 1 mayo, 1 horseradish and 2 tomato sauce packets to get through with full unhealthy points. All for nothing. Where’s the top limit?

Next time you opt for the extra sauce on your steak – as if you wouldn’t – make sure you grab yourself a good handful of all them extra packaged sauces so you fee like you’ve got your money’s worth. Squeeze a napkin full of half a bottle of ketchup if it’s there. Fill your empty pint glass with vinegar.

The only issue should be making the really hard decision, when you’re at a good old (Aussie) pub anyway; do I have the pepper or mushroom sauce, or is this an establishment that will let me have both. Heaven!

the magician

TUNES

scroll down and play this dude’s tunes for “The Magician”.

Post it notes stop motion animation

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/BpWM0FNPZSs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]