TED Talks: Femto-photography, imaging at a trillion frames per second http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillio n_frames_per_second.html (via @jwz http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/07/femto-photography/ )
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TED Talks: Femto-photography, imaging at a trillion frames per second http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillio n_frames_per_second.html (via @jwz http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/07/femto-photography/ )
Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works http://blog.asmartbear.com/color-wheels.html via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4169356
A New Kind of Science and the Future of Mathematics - with lots of (inspirational) pictures of pretty cellular automatonsa and randomness in nature. [via binkley's BLOG]
soc.history.what-if: Behind the Green Door - big usenet thread speculating on the Earth of 250,000,000 A.D. [via Wis[s]e Words]
NASA Is Not Altering Mars Colors - interesting thread on combining rgb color channels, auto leveling etc. [via curry.com]
Lightness Demonstrations - flash anims of optical illusions. [via this Metafilter thread]
Space Station Astrophotography - providing some insight into the making of that widely blogged London from space photo. [via Tastylog]
Optical Camouflage in action! - "This idea is very simple. If you project background image onto the masked object, you can observe the masked object just as if it were virtually transparent." With three impressive mpeg movies... [via anime.aus3d.net]
Stereoscopic snowflake photos - wow... [via the extensive archive of interesting imagery at obscurantist.net]
Beastly Behavior? (washingtonpost.com) - on extending Basic Human Rights to animals. [via randomWalks]
3D-rendered images of Arcology - "...compact three dimensional alternatives to existing urban sprawls, combining more efficient use of land and resources".
SCIENCE HOBBYIST: Do This Now - large collection of 'Stupid Human Tricks' to try... [via lesser-evil.com]
Motorised monowheels, past and present - check the mpeg-link near bottom of page. [via pOw]
Mimic Octopus [via MetaFilter]
Building a megapixel digital camera from a flatbed scanner and more interesting stuff by Matthias Wandel. [via prolific.org]
Humanoid Robot H6 & H7 Homepage - These things are getting bigger and bigger; this one's almost human-sized. Scroll to bottom for two movie downloads. [via slashdot.org]
Tree of Life [via interconnected]
Handig(?) om te weten: Het Bloedgroepdieet, welk voedsel past bij jouw eigen bloedgroep. [via Pim]
The Mandelbrot Monk - Udo of Aachen, a 13th century German monk, plotted a 120x120 Mandelbrot fractal by hand. Took him 9 years to calculate. [via Glassdog mailing list]