mmacken on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Innovative Technology, Renaissance and Baroque
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 [...]
mmacken on Oct 26 2007 | Filed under: Innovative Technology
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 [...]
admin on Sep 28 2007 | Filed under: Innovative Technology
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.
mmacken on Jun 13 2007 | Filed under: Innovative Technology
This short video shows what it would be like to manage your images with a large, touch screen computer:
Perceptive Pixel
mmacken on Jun 06 2007 | Filed under: Innovative Technology
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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