All Things Visual

The Library of Congress, with the help of UNESCO, recently launched the World Digital Library, an online collection of primary source materials. Contributions have been made by partner institutions in many countries. Content includes, but is not limited to: maps, manuscripts, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and recordings. The site functions in seven different languages and [...]

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This week the Indianapolis Museum of Art announced the launch of ArtBabble.org, an interactive website dedicated to art-based video content.
It is intended to showcase video art content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives… ArtBabble was created so others will join in spreading the world of art through video.
Videos are organized [...]

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Interested in film preservation, American cultural heritage, or Texas? Take a look at the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI).
TAMI is an independent 501c3 organization dedicated to the preservation of Texas [...]

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From Wired.com:
FLORENCE, Italy — Art diagnostician Maurizio Seracini has waited 30 years to get to the bottom of his biggest mystery yet: whether Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest lost fresco lies behind a wall in the Palazzo Vecchio here.
Seracini’s team of 30 will scan the palazzo’s 177-foot-long wall in mid-November, looking for the Battle of [...]

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From cnet.com:
Virtual-worlds platform developer Multiverse Network is set to announce a partnership Tuesday [October 9, 2007] that will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment with just about any model from Google’s online repository of 3D models, its 3D Warehouse, as well as terrain from Google Earth.
The Cochrane-Woods Art Center and [...]

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We believed that slide projectors were no longer in production. The VRC was wrong.
Slide projectors like the one on the left are still being handcrafted in Lyon, France and distributed by Hammacher Schlemmer.

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This short video shows what it would be like to manage your images with a large, touch screen computer:
Perceptive Pixel

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New technology will link digital images to create three-dimensional models with incredible zoom capabilities.
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo:
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