Bird Sounds Visualised

Bird Sounds Visualised from Andy Thomas on Vimeo.

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Designer: Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott
Location: n/a
Image Credits: Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott

"In 1993, a convicted murderer was executed. His body was given to science, segmented, and photographed for research. Croix and Frank used that footage to create these 7 photographs. An animation of the 1871 slices was played fullscreen on a computer, which was moved around by an assistant while being photographed in a dark environment. The resulting images are long-exposure “light paintings” of the entire cadaver."










Visible Human Project

→ www.todayandtomorrow.net

Magnetic Liquid

Awesome ferrofluid patterns (love that stuff!):





Via Synaptic Stimuli

First and Final

Beautiful... the opening and closing shots of 55 films side-by-side:

Bacterial Self Portrait

Unusual 'selfies' by Olivia Vankuiken, a high school senior in New Jersey - a series of unique self portraits made by cultivating her own bacteria in petri dishes.

Uranus

"The planet Uranus. Taken on November 14th 2009 at 3:52 am. Using the 98 in Hooker telescope."

Soundshapes

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Sculpture made from a piece of sound spatially recorded (based on Chladni patterns) by Ricky van Broekhoven:

"As a sound designer and musician I always experience music as something very tangible. Almost in the same degree as experiencing a landscape. But sound always remains something ungraspable. I got fascinated by the Chladni patterns. They visualise resonance patterns of sound in a miraculous way. Salt or a similar substance is poured on a thin metal plate that is resonating on a clear tone. Every tone frequency has it’s own specific symmetrical organic drawing that appears. The device used is called a Chladni plate. During my research I built several. I made the process of transformation within the drawing on the Chladni plate three dimensional inspired by CT scan technology. A piece of sound is now spatially recorded.

Every soundbit will have it’s own characteristic sculpture. The results of this study consists of a 3d print of a soundbit of approx. 400-600hz and a handmade model of tulip wood of approx. 550-600hz."





Via PYTR 75

67P

Incredible photos of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta spacecraft:






Rosetta on the ESA website

Via but does it float

Solar Reserve

On a large LED wall located near the Lincoln Center in New York, artist John Gerrard is showing Solar Reserve, a realistic video game type of art that shows computer-generated images of a Nevada solar thermal power plant and its surrounding desert landscape. The dizzying world includes a tower that’s surrounded by 10,000 mirrors that adjust their positions in real-time according to the location of the sun.

Via My Modern Metropolis

Saturn’s Aurorae

"Earth isn’t the only planet in the solar system with spectacular light shows. Both Jupiter and Saturn have magnetic fields much stronger than Earth’s. Auroras also have been observed on the surfaces of Venus, Mars and even on moons (e.g. Io, Europa, and Ganymede). The auroras on Saturn are created when solar wind particles are channeled into the planet’s magnetic field toward its poles, where they interact with electrically charged gas (plasma) in the upper atmosphere and emit light. Aurora features on Saturn can also be caused by electromagnetic waves generated when its moons move through the plasma that fills the planet’s magnetosphere. The main source is the small moon Enceladus, which ejects water vapor from the geysers on its south pole, a portion of which is ionized. The interaction between Saturn’s magnetosphere and the solar wind generates bright oval aurorae around the planet’s poles observed in visible, infrared and ultraviolet light. The aurorae of Saturn are highly variable. Their location and brightness strongly depends on the Solar wind pressure: the aurorae become brighter and move closer to the poles when the Solar wind pressure increases."

Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. Calçada)

Via Space Plasma

Planetary Pinterest

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Typhoon HUD

BAE Systems Eurofighter Typhoon integrated Helmet Mounted Display (HMD).

"All those bumps on the back of the helmet are IR LED tracking lights. A three-sensor system above the pilot's head follows the orientation of the LEDs, understanding it as the angle and direction the pilot is looking. Both the plane's exterior sensors and weapon systems follow the pilot's gaze in real-time, allowing him to spot, track, lock onto, and fire upon incoming fighter craft and missiles using just his eyes and a few voice commands."

Via ianclaridge.net

True Detective

Loving the main title sequence for HBO's True Detective, by Antibody :



Making of article on Art of the Title: artofthetitle.com/title/true-detective

Raymond Loewy

Awesome Google doodle today:



Celebrating the birthday of Raymond Loewy, the late industrial designer of the Coca-Cola bottle, Shell logo, Lucky Strike cigarette packaging and locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

HiRISE

This is Mars in extremely high resolution...



The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (aka HiRISE), hovering 150 to 200 miles above the surface on-board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has captured more than 29,000 insanely-detailed images of the surface of Mars.





This Is Mars in Extremely High Resolution | Collage of Arts and Sciences

Light Echoes

Created by Aaron Koblin & Ben Tricklebank

"Traces of light are broadcast onto landscapes by a moving laser aboard a train. In Light Echoes, we collapse time and space into images which document the historical pulses of data in the form of light reflecting off earth and matter."

lightecho.es

Saturn Hurricane

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft this amazing false-color image of a massive hurricane on the surface of Saturn on November 27th, 2012. The hurricane’s epic eye measures 2,000 km across (that's about the same distance from London to Reykjavik... give-or-take a few hundred km!), with clouds at the outer edge traveling at over 500 km per hour.

Image via NASA

Via Astronomy Picture of the Day

Titan

Spotted this on tumblr...



"Titan Under Varying Filters
RGB color, RGB false color, Infrared, Blue & Ultraviolet Light highlighting geological & atmospheric properties like Titan’s vast dune desert, in Belet (also known as the ‘sand sea’). Or its methane band visible in blue. These filters are mostly used to highlight information about an astronomical body’s chemical properties not visible to the naked eye."






Via Val Klavan's Photostream

Acoustic Levitation

"Using sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing pharmaceutical drugs and drying them in mid-air. Why do this? This is useful because most of the drugs on the market are either amorphous or crystalline and the crystalline form doesn’t get absorbed by the body. So levitating the solution allows the drug to be made into an amorphous state (by evaporation) because if it were to touch any surface it would simply crystallize. They call this “containerless processing”.
The frequencies used are just above the audible range at about 22 kilohertz and when the two speakers are aligned they create two sets of sound waves, perfectly interfering with each other creating a phenomenon known as a standing wave. This allows the objects to levitate in areas within the waves known as nodes as the acoustic pressure is enough to cancel the force of gravity."





No magic show: Real-world levitation to inspire better pharmaceuticals | Argonne National Laboratory

The Overview Effect

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available...
a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.
– FRED HOYLE, 1948