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The kids look at the sky from Häns on Vimeo.

A va tsongwana va txuvuka atilwene / As crianças olham para o céu. Inspired by the poems of the Mozambican poet Noémia de Sousa, this is a bittersweet poetic piece of resilience, survival and struggle, based on a Mozambican group of people, co-existing and living humble but inspirational lives around the suburbs of Maputo.

Premiered in NOWNESS. Portrait of a Place. 

Directed by Enric Ribes Writted by Marta Polo Ysalgué & Enric Ribes Film Editor / Head of Post by Guillermo Irriguible Cinematography by Albert Bada Leal Music Composer and Sound by Antarctica Apartment Production Design by Andreu Panicot & Adrià P. Cuberos Analog Animation by kinoMANUAL Color by Lluís Velamazán Executive Producer HÄNS Associate Producer Guillermo Irriguible & Menta.tv

Muito obrigado. fundación obra mercedaria, josé antonio marzo, alexandre domingos, josé antonio marín, centro de mercês T3 matola, joana rosa da cruz, marcelino peruca, josé juan gálvez, núria ortín, david lacasa, carnaby studio, jordi mestre, paula fortes, marcela regne, napalm rental, mordisco studio, escac, césar pesquera.    film labs. on8mil, andec, cinelab srl. foto labs. copialab, vm foto.

© A film by Hans. T3, Matola, Catembe, Maputo - 2024.

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Carbon Based Lifeforms 5 hours mix ambient chillout electronic

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(Michał Brzeziński)

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Chladni patterns

Chladni was a German physicist and a trained musician and is best known for inventing a technique to visualize the various modes of vibration of a rigid surface.

Take a flat metal plate, fix it at any point (say at the center) and sprinkle some fine sand particles on it.

Using a violin bow, gently excite any edge of the plate to witness beautiful normal mode patterns (known as Chladni patterns/figures).

Notice that by pinching the plate at different points one gets different patterns.

                               Gif source video: Steve Mould

Inverse Chladni plates

There is much more than what meets the eye in this experiment as the patterns that emerge are dependent on the size of the particles that one chooses and the acceleration of the resonating plate.

Bigger particles ( > 0.15 micrometers ) - tend to accumulate at the nodes of the vibrating plate - Chladni figures.

Smaller particles ( e.g Lycopodium powder ) - tend to accumulate at the anti-nodes of the vibrating plate - Inverse Chladni figures.

                   Source : “Air-induced inverse Chladni patterns”

What causes them?

Although the traditional Chladni patterns are discussed extensively in the context of solid mechanics and normal modes of vibration in engineering.

But that’s NOT where the story ends.

Michael Faraday argues in his remarkable paper that the ‘inverse Chladni patterns’ that one observes are not a run of mill mechanics problem with a secondary mode of vibration.

Instead, he demonstrates that the vibrating plate induces air currents on top of it, which drags the fine particles along to the antinode. This is completely counterintuitive since one doesn’t expect the air to play such a pivotal role in these patterns.

A plot of the velocity profile above the Chladni plate.  Notice the air currents that are caused by the vibrating plate. This phenomenon is often referred to as “Rayleigh streaming”.

Thus far we have merely considered a plate vibrating in air.

But what if we were to look at water atop a vibrating plate? For that, check out the accompanying FYFD post and stay tuned for more tomorrow.

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Saida Valenzuela - Echoes

“Microcosms composed of millions of crystalline particles; unique and unrepeatable designs as if they were from another planet; scenes in varied colors and shapes that remind us of the sea, the desert, the marshes or the earth. The result is authentic pieces of art naturally created without human intervention that show us once again nature is and always be the best artist.“

See more Saida Valenzuela posts here.

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Most amphibians start out in water but grow up to live on land–but not axolotls. These astonishing salamanders don’t change the way other amphibians do. They stick to their watery habitat–freshwater channels and lakes near Mexico City–their whole lives, and hang on to their larval features, including their gills, the feathery structures on either side of the head.

Axolotls also have the amazing ability to regrow entire limbs. They experience no scarring, receive transplanted organs without rejecting them, and can even recover from injuries as grievous as a crushed spinal cord! Scientists are working to identify the genes involved in axolotls’ incredible regenerative abilities in hopes of one day applying what they learn to medicine.

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Asinas II

Kinetic sculpture by Jennifer Townley is an iteration of a previous piece from 2015 yet still visually complex and mesmerizing:

‘Asinas II’ is the successor of the original sculpture 'Asinas’, showing the same concept and overall appearance but a different shape for the white “wing” parts.

The various angles and curves of the individual parts create an elaborated unity when joined together on the shaft. The two “wings” formed by these seventy-seven parts are able to slide through each other and rotate in opposite direction at a slightly different speed. This results in a movement that appears to be far more complex, existing of multiple layers, where repetitive shapes seem to be moving within oneanother.

More Here

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LED Doll Eyes

Project from Akira Tachibana is working on small spherical displays which can be used as eyes for dolls and certainly isn’t creepy at all:

電子工作で人形に組み込んだら面白そうな目を作って見ました。 （ネットにつくり方が公開されていました） 次の目標は人形に組み込んで遊ぶ。 pic.twitter.com/5iiZIc53J2

— 橘 明@〜賭ケグルイに地獄大夫！ (@DollTachibana) September 10, 2017

[Auto-translate] I’ve made the intriguing eyes if in electronic devices include dolls. Play with the goal (to make was published on the Internet) built into the doll.

電子工作の目、ドラゴンアイになりました。少しずつ教えてもらい進化中です。なんか楽しい！ 液晶の前に眼球になるレンズを透明レジンで試作してみました。 竜の目の人形作らなきゃ pic.twitter.com/zei56Bt037

— 橘 明@〜賭ケグルイに地獄大夫！ (@DollTachibana) September 19, 2017

[Auto-translate] Electronics of the dragon eye. Little by little, is evolving. Something fun! I developed the eye lens in the front of the LCD in transparent resin. I have dolls made in the eyes of the Dragon 

Updates on Twitter profile here

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Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move

Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world’s largest search engine is a left-leaning company with an ax to grind.

Also targeting and censoring those on the “left”, and pretty much all who aren’t in lock-step with whatever flavour of political orthodoxy that’s en vogue at the moment.

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New Google Search Censorship Appears to Be Worse Than Originally Feared

New data released by the World Socialist Web Site seems to confirm what many had feared: the new Google search evaluation protocol is adversely affecting a broad array of leftist, whistleblower and democratic rights organizations, and anti-war news outlets. The data, collected from the search engine metric website SEMrush, shows massive drops in traffic to Wikileaks, the Intercept, the ACLU, Common Dreams, Antiwar.com, and many others.

Google’s new algorithm, implemented for the ostensible purpose of limiting the reach of “fake news” and “conspiracy theories,” has targeted anti-establishment websites seeking to challenge the disinformation and propaganda of corporate mainstream media. Facing mounting criticism from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other MSM benefactors following the 2016 presidential election, both Google and Facebook have capitulated and taken drastic measures to restrict the flow of information. Wikileaks traffic dropped by 30 percent; Democracy Now fell by 36 percent. The WSWS was the most adversely affected, as its traffic dropped by 70 percent during the same month the new algorithm went into effect.

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3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image

Machine Learning research from University of Nottingham School of Computer Science can generate a 3D model of a human face from an image using neural networks:

3D face reconstruction is a fundamental Computer Vision problem of extraordinary difficulty. Current systems often assume the availability of multiple facial images (sometimes from the same subject) as input, and must address a number of methodological challenges such as establishing dense correspondences across large facial poses, expressions, and non-uniform illumination. In general these methods require complex and inefficient pipelines for model building and fitting. In this work, we propose to address many of these limitations by training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on an appropriate dataset consisting of 2D images and 3D facial models or scans. Our CNN works with just a single 2D facial image, does not require accurate alignment nor establishes dense correspondence between images, works for arbitrary facial poses and expressions, and can be used to reconstruct the whole 3D facial geometry (including the non-visible parts of the face) bypassing the construction (during training) and fitting (during testing) of a 3D Morphable Model. We achieve this via a simple CNN architecture that performs direct regression of a volumetric representation of the 3D facial geometry from a single 2D image. We also demonstrate how the related task of facial landmark localization can be incorporated into the proposed framework and help improve reconstruction quality, especially for the cases of large poses and facial expressions.       

There is an online demo which will let you upload an image to convert and even save as a 3D model here

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Wydział Architektury Wnętrz rekrutacja na studia niestacjonarne

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