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Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Lightroom. HiRISE data processed using gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
DEM of Moon using LOLA 256 pix/deg cylindrical altimetry data. Focal point is about 23° N by 30° E from about 2,500 km (1,550 miles) from the surface. Sources: NASA/PDS Geosciences Node for LRO: LOLA. Rendered using jDem846
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop. HiRISE data processed using gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
The Triangle inequality: ||x+y|| <= ||x|| + ||y||
Sometimes the sum of two people is less than the people on their own.
The hermit turns inward. He conserves his power, does not start any new projects or meet new people. He continues in the old rut because it is old and doesn't cost him any mental effort - he saves energy.
Is he alone? Yes, as alone as he wants to be. He doesn't have to be consistent when nobody is there to judge him.
Carl Woese suggested (Woese CR (1998). "The universal ancestor." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:6854-6859.) that the Last Universal Common Ancestor, the bacterium all terrestrial life is descended from, was not a single cell but rather a community of cells living in a sea of genetic exchange - or rather, a community of genes moving between cells. There were no species, just gradients of genetic usage. But when this exchange weakened, perhaps due to better cell membranes, different parts of the community were cut off and began to become individual.
A global genetic community allows all cells to partake on new useful genes, but it also requires that the cells are simple and porous. If they start to hide their genomes, just exchanging small pieces through plasmids and sex like trading misers, they will not get the same range of possible new genes but will also be able to form more complex and sensitive structures. The isolation breeds diversity, enabling the formation of species and complex ecosystems.
Integrity is the control over the information flowing in and out of one's organism.
It is not just the right to keep silent about what one wishes to keep silent about, but also the duty to determine for oneself what to attend to. When the spammer steals our attention we are contributing by allowing anybody to email us anything.
Isolation as a virtue. To keep silent. To conserve information.
The code on the sphere the hermit holds is the plasmid pINIIIompA3.
The image has been produced by using a computer program I wrote. Input data for the program was obtained by using a 3D scanner (it uses a laser scan to adquire 3d data).
This scanner needed various passes (from different points of view) to cover different parts of the surface. Then a comercial program was used which joined polygons into a single 3D model, containing 260000 triangles. I was not absolutlelly quiet between each scan, and perhaps this caused the stitching error you can see (whole process took a few minutes).
From this data, the program used a realistic rendering algorithm, (based on Monte-Carlo techniques), wich simulates light propagation and reflection on the 3D model. The program was run on a 8 CPU linux computer cluster (with different processes comunicating via the MPI library), and was written in C++ programming language. The program completed the image in less than 5 minutes (4m 45 sec.)
The program used an algorithm called path-tracing. For each pixel, a total number of 400 light paths were simulated, and average pixel radiance was computed from this set of samples.
Finally an image was obtained. I used GIMP to post-process this image. Background was removed (set to black), and contrast was enhanced on the head. Finally, noise was removed by using an edge preserving low-pass filter (a little bit of noise was produced by Monte-Carlo algorithm, and then it was made more visible because of contrast enhancing algorithm).
The image I've uploaded is a JPG version fo the original tiff image, thus some JPG compression errors are visible.
All equipment used belongs to the Computer Graphics Group at the University of Granada.
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Lightroom. HiRISE data processed using gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Digital elevation model of Earth displaying a cloudless morning in May. Sources: GEBCO_08 bathymetric raster data provided by the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, Satellite imagery provided by the NASA's Earth Observatory Blue Marble project. Rendered using jDem846.
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop.
Actually, at the altitude depicted here, the spacecraft would be well above the Martian atmosphere and would thus not yet exhibit the forward air shock.
Applied a different lighting model for volume scattering (fog) and a spot light rather than a directional light.
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Lightroom. HiRISE data processed using gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Put at a orbital distance (semi-major axis) roughly similar to that of Venus and given a slight inclination as to minimize blocking sunlight to Earth. I suspect you wouldn't be able to see the side facing Earth (away from the Sun), especially with this lighting, but that I was added, however faintly, for structural context.
Rendered with Autodesk Maya, composited over a photo taken at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Lightroom. HiRISE data processed using gdal.
Mars Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Source: www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_043861_1605
Earth Data: USDA-FSA Aerial Photography Field Office
Modeled using HiRiSE DTM and Ortho imagery data. Data processed using gdal, ImageMagick, & HiView. Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop.
Source Data: www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_023567_2000
Rendered in Blender using a digital terrain model and hand-map projected RGB swath from HiRISE.
Source Data Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Data source: www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_021942_1520
This is the higher quality vimeo version: vimeo.com/86516706
This video is made from 24 photos taken on the 1st Light Painting Workshop by Oddball Graphics
I would like to thank light painters Maarten Takens, Ina Ellpunkt and Anika Möllenbeck from the Noctis Lux team for being the first attending my workshops and for allowing me to use their photos to make this video.
A very big thank you to Rutger Verberkmoes for the excellent sound track. You can read my thoughts man! ;) I’ve also used his track to control one of the layers.
Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt;
Alle Menschen werden Brueder,
Wo dein sanfter Fluegel weilt.
x'(t)=\lambda x(t)
x=c_0 \exp(\lambda t)
Beethoven's ninth symphony is a coiling dragon with golden scales, eternally twisting into an ever greater, ever tighter crescendo. It is the joy of existing; the joy of being a living being that evolves and acts.
But one could as well exchange the 'joy' of the lyrics with 'freedom'. The meaning would be the same, because free growth towards one entelechy is true joy: it is flow, it is eudaimonia, and it is the happiness we all seek. Unlike the golden clouds of opiates that lull us to sleep and blissful inactivity the hard scales of the dragon urges us to achieve more, to be more, to transcend all limitations in an eternal spiral of ambition and happiness.
Crescendo. Exponential growth. Flow, eudamonic joy. Rising to challenges
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Size: A4
2007, Kuwait
Concept:
This project was to design series of advertisements for a certain product and I chose to advertise for STAEDTLER Inc. I concentrated on the qualities of their products and added at the bottom an image of each product that I am trying to promote. I designed four ads and each ad was presenting one product only because I didn't want to confuse the buyer with lots of items in the ad. The purpose of an ad is to attract customers to buy the products in the ad. So, I focused on creative and original designs that attract viewers immediately. I have promoted my drawing and computer skills in the four advertisement series with confidence.
Modeling, posing, lighting exercise made entirely in Blender (from tracing the references, to rigging, to rendering).
3d computer graphic images series "in the crack".
"Flesh separated from its meaning and function thus becomes an unknown territory, a limitless area. A substance that can be moulded at will. Virtual flesh become abstract."
more info :
hugoarcier.com/en/dans-la-fente/
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This scene was created using Autodesk Maya 2009 and rendered with Mental Ray. This 3D model is based on the Minimate version of Marvel Comics's Sentry.
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop. HiRISE data processed using gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop. HiRISE data processed using HiView and gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop. HiRISE data processed using HiView and gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Source: hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/dtm/dtm.php?ID=PSP_009149_1750
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Lightroom. HiRISE data processed using gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Somebody talk about Super GT Painting last night,
and later (for some reason...) We talk about
"The Only Bugatti Veyron" in Taiwan, so...
Here it is. :D
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop. HiRISE data processed using HiView and gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Rendered using Mental Ray's physical sun and sky and some cloud templates in Maya.
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop. HiRISE data processed using HiView and gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
3d computer graphic images series "in the crack".
"Flesh separated from its meaning and function thus becomes an unknown territory, a limitless area. A substance that can be moulded at will. Virtual flesh become abstract."
more info :
hugoarcier.com/fr/dans-la-fente/
© All Rights Reserved
I try to rise in pride, I want to radiate
walk on water and ride the light
I try to break the chains, I want to penetrate
cross the borders and drink the oceans
given velocity and gasoline
electricity and adrenaline
I want to be superluminal
I need to burn my fuel, I want to detonate
melt the sun and drain the sources
I need to waste my strength, I want to escalate
turn the tide, conquer the stars
given velocity and gasoline
electricity and adrenalin
I want to be superluminal
I have to go ahead, I want to elevate
rise above, find the path, I have to look beyond
I want to perforate, reach behind, take it back
I must spread my wings, I want to scintillate
blind myself, break away, I must be born again
I want to celebrate, stop the clock, never return
--Covenant, Luminal
Rudra doesn't care. When he is flying, surrounded by his rings of fire and his blasts of pure energy he does not think of who he is, what he is doing, his normal situation and any other worldly concern. Is he an avatar of Shiva, or just an ordinary boy with tremendous powers? It doesn't matter. He feels just the sheer joy of releasing energy. The joy of manifesting one's will, to destroy or change the world around oneself, to play with fire.
Not just information wants to be free. Energy must be liberated!
The strong nuclear force. Exuberance. Waste of energy. Extroversion.
A rerender of the ETOPO1 Global Relief Model raster dataset (ice surface) provided by the NOAA. Generated using jDem846.
Created using DTM data from NASA HiRiSE data. Rendered using Autodesk Maya & Adobe Photoshop.
Data Source: www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_036176_2640
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Lightroom. HiRISE data processed using gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Lightroom. HiRISE data processed using gdal.
Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Kepler struggled for many years with his model of the solar system. Since there were six planets orbiting the sun, and five platonic polyhedra, should their distances not be related? He attempted inscribing the polyhedra in spheres marking the circular orbits, placing the solar system in perfect mathematical harmony. It made wonderful hermetic sense - and it never worked.
When Kepler finally discarded his cherished model and looked at what the data had been truly saying, he discovered something else entirely. Three simple laws:
The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.
The line joining the planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times as the planet travels around the ellipse.
The ratio of the squares of the revolutionary periods for two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their semimajor axes.
Suddenly the data made sense. The solar system did contain harmonies, but new harmonies never expected by any Greek philosophers. The way towards gravitation, central forces and space was open.
Will our descendants make Kepler's dream true? Most of the solar system is a waste of matter, just lying there and dissipating the sacred rays of sunlight into the void. But what if that matter was rearranged to collect the light, to make it available for life, work, thought and growth?
Freeman Dyson's idea (based on a similar concept in Stapledon's Starmaker) was to englobe the sun in a shell of orbiting habitats and solar collectors: a Dyson sphere. It would have 600 million times the surface area of the Earth. He suggested it as the logical result of current exponential growth in energy and resource use.
Robert Bradbury went further in suggesting the Matrioshka Brain: making use of all available matter to process information - thinking, feeling, being - in a nested structure where each kind of material available would be used for energy collection and dissipation, information processing and storage. Planets would be disassembled by self-replicating machines in the matter of years, the stellar atmosphere tamed and the entire system turned into something not unlike the Kepler vision of interlocking spheres and polyhedra. Optimisation and forethought would shape this structure, by necessity introducing mathematical and physical harmonies.
We recoil at the idea of disassembling planets (especially the Earth). But maybe we should burn our cradle to light the library of mind.
Abandoning outmoded ways of thinking. Central forces. Energy. The birth of something new through creative destruction. Maximum productiveness. Perfect unity aesthetics and efficiency.