One of the best online art collections.
The first principle of their Mission Statement:
To create the largest on-line Museum on the internet, with hundreds of thousands of oversized high quality images of all the known works of the greatest painters and sculptors in human history, cross referenced to the largest encyclopedic online art reference library of historical texts, essays, biographies and articles.
One of those pieces that transcends its origins (soundtrack for the movie "A Beautiful Mind") and time itself.
A great resource to keep the finger on the pulse of the "Free Domain Names" scene (if there's such a thing)...
An interesting concept/"mashup", between a door chain and a maze.
One that, on a second look, could raise the question: "What if one needed to exit in a hurry?".
Eureqa is a software tool that allows to derive formula(s) from data, using Symbolic Regression.
Everybody can use it. Here is a(n) (gentle) introduction:
MIT Prof. Walter H. G. Lewin asks, challengingly:
We've all looked at rainbows but, have you really seen rainbows?
A fascinating talk that uncovers the hidden beauty in how rainbows work and in other color and light related phenomena.
A clever algorithm/paper that presents a way to upscale/vectorize pixel art, with interesting results.
Quality can't be gained but, "educated guesses" (like in this case), can go a long way in improving perceived quality when dealing with the magnification of such small pixel representations.
wayne gretzkya good hockey player plays where the puck is.
a great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Or.
The tale of how Roy van Rijn "re-invented" music matching in one spare weekend...
* "Let the reader beware": What should be the permanently/proeminently visible Wikipedia disclaimer/warning.
Wikipedia is an aggregator of knowledge/information, not a creator of it.
Wikipedia's articles are only as trustable as their references/sources/originators.
Use this notion as a rule of thumb/caveat and Wikipedia can be/is an unbeatable asset...
Wikipedia itself denotes this in article pages where no sources/references are given to support the contents (even if it should be displayed as a clear and permanent disclaimer in all article pages, regardless).
Without verifiability, any information/knowledge is untrustable/untrustworthy/unreliable, by definition.
the younger bull turns to the older bull and says, "look at all those cows. there are hundreds of them down there just begging to be serviced by a bull such as i. let's run down into the valley and begin production on a few of those heffers..."
the old bull smiles and turns to the young bull and advises, "let us walk down young man and not just service a few but the whole herd!"
A tutorial on how to create a font in TypeTool.
From threadless.com.
Notable features:
• Highly recognizable;
• Simplicity in shape and color;
• Ambigram/inversion;
• Type-based (but not in an obvious way);
And...
• It's beautiful;
A virtual landscape/canvas for your isometric, tridimensional, drawing needs.
The depicted cube size is the lowest resolution afforded, but this still allows for accomplished creations, limited only by imagination itself.
The color palette available is also the above depicted.
thomas carlylesecrecy is the element of all goodness;
even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
