Through the Quartz Composer work of Memo Akten:
Timestretching (Slit-scan) in Quartz Composer | memo.tv
I found this site:
An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research - Golan Levin and Collaborators
Which included a link to this:
KHRONOS PROJECTOR - Alvaro Cassinelli
And this interactive sunset:
sketch_KHRONOS : Built with Processing
I'm over my head but I'm making progress. And they couldn't make it easier - tinker toy programming. Or Legos, for the under-50 set.
Graphics & Imaging Quartz Guides
Quartz Composer: Lighting 3D Cubes and Moving them with Audio Input on Vimeo
State of emergency in Guatemala due to the heavy rains.
:: EmisorasUnidas.com :: Decretan estado de "Calamidad Pública" en 8 departamentos
Thanks to Elaine Schele for the link.
Sounds From The Wild: Noisy New World Monkeys : NPR
Deja tormenta tropical Dolly inundaciones en Chiapas - El Universal - Los Estados
I found a busy litlle hive of Quartz hackers working on just what I want to play with for dome projection. This and Paul Bourke's work should do it, if I can come up to speed.
The Kineme site has a wealth of Quartz plugins and patches. Christopher Wright of Kineme has posted tutorials on Vimeo. Here's the first that you'd need to use his Quartz plugins
How To Install 3rd Party Plug-Ins for Quartz Composer on Vimeo
From a link in that thread, this music-controlled graphics test is interesting:
Amoeba Dance - Caliper Remote | memo.tv
And as a side note - a realtime video manipulation program for the Mac (company based in Troy, New York)
We had a glimpse of this tool in Chicago this summer.
Domeview: A tool to preview and project dome content
Narcotraffickers are extorting and kidnapping travellers across the border into Mexico.
Selva Guatemala trae nuevos peligros para emigrantes hacia EEUU | América Latina | Reuters
Their version of Wikipedia.
Official Google Blog: Knol is open to everyone
Here are some knol-writing How-to's:
Basics of Writing Knols - a knol by Knol Help
Advanced Knol Techniques - a knol by Knol Help
Solar LifePod's day in the sun | Green Tech - CNET News
One of the best uses for the iPhone that I've found is storing and studying video tutorials. You will have to let the videos on the page below stream until completed, and you will need Quicktime Pro, but they are easily saved and loaded onto an iPhone or iPod.
Apple - Final Cut Studio 2 - Tutorials - Soundtrack Pro - Surround Sound Editing
Fascinating interviews with the Wall-E team give insights into their working methods and custom tools. The tool article dates back a few years but describes a simple and elegant collaborative system they devised for The Incredibles.
adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » Conversation with Michael B. Johnson of Pixar - Part 1
Animation World Magazine - Hello, WALL•E!: Pixar Reaches for the Stars
Good, detailed report on one family's installation of solar panels and the results obtained.
Going Solar: The Install - CPUs, Boards & Components by ExtremeTech
Going Solar Power: One Month Later - CPUs, Boards & Components by ExtremeTech
Part of my Canada research. Includes the Canadia 2056 unofficial podcast.
the Blog of the Zombie Astronaut
Solar thermal rush to acquire land in the southwest.
Solar's hot real estate market - Jul. 8, 2008
Sopogy thinks small to make megawatts of solar power | Green Tech - CNET News.com
Why I am scheming now.
The 15-petabyte network and the atom smasher - CNET News.com
Quote:
Andrew Sansum, tier one manager at RAL, said its connection with CERN is about 1,000 times faster than the download speeds on a home broadband connection.
It may be less than two decades before commercial networks catch up: "Video and other media services are going to push the speed of consumer network connections up as the demand is going to be huge," Sansum said. "We were at today's speed of about 10Mbps about 10 to 15 years ago, so you could take that as a precedent for how long it will take for the commercial networks to catch up with us today."
Opening the APIs for a sytem to monitor energy-producing systems like solar panels.
Fat Spaniel: Distributed energy meets Web 2.0 | Green Tech - CNET News.com
Go south of the Lacandon forest, past the Lacantun river, past the Marques de Comillas, and cross the east-west running border into Guatemala - you arrive at Ixcan. This area is now receiving foreign investment to convert to African palm oil plantations. So the conversion of rainforest to small homesteaders' plts to cattle ranches takes the next step - to biodiesel.
elPeriódico de Guatemala » Economía » Auge de biocombustibles dispara demanda de tierras
Animation World Magazine - Hello, WALL•E!: Pixar Reaches for the Stars
Good source for tutorials and utilities.
Ponyboy's Web Pages - QTVR Links
Good source of images for viewing, experimenting.
Flickr: The Equirectangular Pool
Fill your car for $1.10 a gallon? | Videos on ZDNet
The Inter-American Development Bank has given US$30 million to Guatemala for use in rural development projects and for the protection of archaeological sites in southern Peten.
Prensa Libre - Ambiente: US$30 millones para Petén
With 0ver 700 kilos of cocaine captured in 2007, 2000 in 2008. The photo above shows the back of the colonel who showed me the landing strips and crashed narcotraffickers' planes in 2006.
Siglo XXI - Aterrizan 30 avionetas con coca en 7 meses
A "high performance exchange point in New York City" that I need to know more about. A presentation on Cinegrid at the Fulldome Summit led me to MAN LAN as the closest point that we might use to join in a high speed network of domes. Ask me about it in 2012.
Good tip from Dock James in the Fulldome list. Looking for a way to increase FOV past 120 degrees to 180 or more.
Official Google SketchUp Blog: Setting your field of view
You'll need to interpolate the seat from the photo (good luck) and the end details are a bit tricky, but it can be done with these online instructions - an origami canoe.
Adirondack Life, Inc. - July/August 2008: Paper Work
I may have posted this before, but I met Hue at the Domefest in Chicago this week and saw more of her amazing work. I think I am ready now to start learning something new.
ARTS Lab - Tutorials - Hue's Beginner's Guide to Fulldome Production
And when I am really ready, I'll take the first step.
ARTS Lab - Tutorials - Making a Hemi-cubic 3D Camera in Maya
Where does Hue work?
ARTS Lab FACILITIES: The Fulldome