Gregg Favalora

Ellsworth Kelly. Seine, 1951. This procedural, randomness-based artwork is one of the earliest precursors to generative art.

Ever wish you could focus on just the interesting parts of your 2D plots? Caleb Thomas, a talented member of the MATLAB user community, has made it possible with his open-source Zoomed Axes contribution. Check it out 👉 spr.ly/6017Cul29

Marble Madness (Atari Games, 1984), designed by Mark Cerny, puts you in control of... a marble! For those old enough to remember this gem, its only flaw was its shortness (only 6 levels), and I wonder why they didn't just make more levels. Surely, the core programming was the heavy lifting, adding a few more levels (the easier part) would have given this game a much longer lifetime. What stands out are brilliant isometric graphics, an iconic soundtrack, and an interesting concept: guiding a marble through a maze with traps and obstacles. I remember real-life versions; a wooden box covered by plexiglass containing a maze-like structure, where you guide a metal ball from one end to the other by tilting the box. Marble Madness belongs in that rare category of early '80s games that truly stood out. You can't put it with Paradroid, Elite or The Sentinel, but it left its mark. Close your eyes and listen to the first 10-15 seconds of the soundtrack for the ultimate time travel experience.

BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system: go.nasa.gov/48MTu9i More on the study led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of @TohokuUniPR⤵️

Nitty Gritty Store Sign by Daniel Carlsten

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

@carl_feynman @psychiel Did you see this article from 1987 in Omni about lucid dreaming? It suggests reading things twice - if they’re different, you’re likely dreaming, and then could control it. archive.org/details/bradle…

I can’t read in dreams. I can recognize text layout and fonts, and I can recognize what something says, but I can’t actually read it! In my last dream, I was looking at some white text on a blue background, written in a font with rounded stroke ends and slightly left-tilted ascenders, telling me about Muller’s ratchet. The first two letters of the word “Muller” were “Ha”, and the rest was illegible. Looks like the part of my brain that can read doesn’t work in reverse: it can’t make up letters to fit the concepts.

Can you read in dreams?

Hard to believe it’s been 21 years since this classic: “E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying To Give Out Over The Phone” by Michael Ward

YES! THIS IS MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR! - The absolute last minute that abstracts can be submitted to the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference! T-Minus 5 days to be exact 👀 @SDnAconf

@jwt0625 Cool, have fun! You know where to find me…

@gfavalora nope, along these directions im more of optical comm than display type of guy both look sick, will dig a bit

what kind of maniac came up with this sorcery, chirping the acoustic wavelength in an AOD to introduce a cylindrical lensing effect

@jwt0625 Have you looked at Scophony and the MIT Media Lab’s Holovideo Mark I and II?

@gfavalora yes very similar, i remember you shared this to me once before, amazing stuff

@p4ra114x_5h1f4 Whoops, I meant to say the part that stuck out to me is the “anti-pinhole” (small blocker) half of the work. Check out the second part of their CVPR slides. Hmm they cite a 1982 paper…

@gfavalora Right, it seems the scene is always coming through a window, which i am just saying is an "appateur" (and in the same way you can view a solar eclipse through a colander & look at yhe shadows of the occlusion ie the moon) because this is, amazing.

I've been thinking about this post and about everything I've learned for you all, just so I could learn From you :) it took me a minute & YES. it's a shocking & such an effortlessly elegant way- which looks SUPER fun to try.. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC83…

@p4ra114x_5h1f4 I need to refresh my memory about it, but: light must bounce off a “scene,” then be blocked by an occluder (a basketball, even), and then (typically at least) hit a surface which is then photographed. Perhaps the camera needs excellent SNR, can’t recall.

Does light need to be entering from an apeture, like a window or something (as it seems all the examples were?) @gfavalora

@p4ra114x_5h1f4 The gist is that whereas a typical pinhole camera (or room with a pinhole) uses a “hole,” it turns out an OCCLUDER works too, like a basketball!

No i havent. Are they saying there is the image from inside the room? I was into this guy for a sec on insta, capturemag.com.au/gear/trash-cam…

@p4ra114x_5h1f4 @RealPreCinema Ever see “Accidental pinhole and pinspeck cameras”? When I saw this stuff and the videos it was a “wait, what???” moment for me: people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/resea…

@RealPreCinema Youre making me want to black out and pinhole my bedroom window btw...

The Camera in Eger is the continent’s oldest working #Panorama #projectingdevice. It gives a unique bird’s eye view of the town. The structure of the Camera Obscura is a simple optical tool: an enormous camera in a darkened room.

👌👌👌 1935 “An Explanation of Relief Cinema” by Jean Labadie, Translated by Hisashi Karako @haeckel/1935-an-explanation-of-relief-cinema-by-jean-labadie-translated-by-hisashi-karako-f3c06a72502d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@haeckel/1935-…

For sale, really big impressive 3D video game collection. Super rare & obscure shit. Multiple copies of a few choice choice items. Museum pieces. I actually wrote my whitepaper @SDnAconf on it. I have shit no one else thought of looking for. #3d #retrogames #3dvideogames

Some art for my stereoscopy buddies (MUSÉE BANKSY):

Google’s “… Project Starline is evolving into a new 3D video communication platform: Google Beam…” blog.google/technology/res…