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Arduino to 3D Studio Max from melka on Vimeo.
I am a sucker for anything controlled by a wii remote. It may be because there are only 2-3 games worth playing which is ridiculous now the we are almost 2 years into the life of the system. I feel like I need to put that nunchuck to work!  The video shows that the motion of the nunchuck can be seen in real time in the 3D Studio Max Window. via the great little site >> hackaday

Thank you Pete for passing this on to us. This truly is a breakthrough in computation and productivity. Torque Angular Moment, Angular Deformation, Merging Forces, Merging Angular Moments…. What can this thing not do!

From the author: The purpose of this plugin is to make your boss think you’re taking a necessary coffee-break, because your computer is bogged down calculating something very complicated.

Run the command _ and a dialog with a never ending progression of nonsense data will be displayed on the screen. By downloading this plugin you agree to the terms and conditions as specified by the distributor. Essentially, the terms state that you are not allowed to use this plugin if you drink decaf.

Download it here> LINK

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008. Lee became a YouTube star with his demo of Wii Remote hacks — bending the low-cost game piece to power an interactive whiteboard, a multitouch surface, a head-mounted display …Why you should listen to him:To understand Johnny Lee, just take a look at his personal Projects page. Aside from his Wii Remote hacks — voted the #1 tech demo of all time by Digg — you can see all the other places his mind has turned: typography, photography, urban renewal … to say nothing of his interesting sideline in Little Great Ideas, like the hypnotic “___ will ___ you.” read more

Dropclock is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy Helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion. Be captivated as the contrasting elements of organic water and solid typography infinitely morph and mix. You can preview the product at the publisher’s Web site> scr.sc read more

zebra_line rhino setting: (Analyze/Surface/Zebra)

The following tests were all created using Rhino3d and Adobe Illustrator. In each case a screen shot was captured using one of the many surface representational tools found in the general settings of Rhino or in the surface analysis tool set. All line work was then exported using the “Export Ai” feature them modified depending of the desired output.

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Image from flight404/Barbarian Group + Nervo = Awesome!

The Department of Digital Arts will present the panel discussion
“Code and the Artist’s Mark,” featuring digital artists Jean-Pierre
Hbert, C.E.B. Reas, and Camille Utterback on Wednesday, March 5, from
12:30 to 2:30 PM on the Brooklyn campus. The panel will be located in the
ARC Building, E-2 Lecture Hall, Lower Level. The event is free and open
to the public. read more

Here is a great set of RHINO tutorial links from Bryan Boyer Harvard GSD via archinect

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 A representation of a mammalian neocortical column, the basic building block of the cortex. The representation shows the complexity of this part of the brain, which has now been modeled using a supercomputer.
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This is a great example of what Maxwell does well. You can render the scene once and place all of your lights on the equivalent of dimmers. The render time is much longer than mentaray or vray but the output quality and the ability to manipulate individual light sources in a semi post process is well worth the wait. You have to sleep sometime. Much more to come…

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The study started with the investigation of rules which govern equilateral triangles, being the basis for the construction of the faces of regular tetrahedra. A mathematical function was created to explain the relationship between minimum and maximum strut extensibility.

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