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Really cute, crayon creatures turns your child's drawing into a 3D model. (Screenshot taken from the official website, see also the article "20 amazing creations you can make with 3d printing" on hongkiat, found via innovation factory)

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In any case, algorithms are encapsulations of processes or systems of processes that allow one to leap and venture into the world of the unknown, whether natural or artificial. They are not the end product, but rather a vehicle for exploration.

Kostas Terzidis

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SenseFly drones mapping Matterhorn in 6 hours, resulting in a point cloud with 3 million points. Some visualizations on mapbox, including a WebGL renderer of a reduced point cloud and a 2D map with the imagery at original resolution. (Appeared on New Scientist and golem.)

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Classic must-see for beginning PhD students!

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Look what arrived today via mail -- the Francois Gamma print from run computer run (thank you Nora!).

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An Ada Lovelace fan comic!

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If pigs could whistle, then donkeys could fly

Attributed to Richard M. Karp

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Phase space audio visualization after Monro & Pressing 1998.

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Link to the original paper on JSTOR: Gordon Monro and Jeff Pressing. "Sound Visualization Using Embedding: The Art and Science of Auditory Correlation." Computer Music Journal, Vol. 2, No. 22, pp. 20-34, Summer 1998.

Another nice read: David Gerhard. "Audio Visualization in Phase Space." Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science. 1999.

(Link to WebGL online demo to follow.)