Another great video on 3-D printing. This one shows how the digital image was rendered.

Computers identify what makes abstract art move us

Take a look at this article sent by John Chalmers which describes a team led by Nicu Sebe at the University of Trento in Italy who used machine vision to analyse 500 abstract paintings at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. The system measured how color is distributed across each work, as well as the occurrence of different shapes or outlines. Using data on how 100 people responded to the paintings, the system then worked out what emotional impact these elements had. For example, black, spiky features tended to correspond to the bleaker end of the emotional spectrum, whereas bright, smooth features were more feel-good.

Read the entire article at this link:

Computers identify what makes abstract art move us - tech - 16 November 2012 - New Scientist

The latest ASCI is out - check it out here

Local 3-D printer

Kelly Bennett from Voice of San Diego directed us to local SD artist Matthew Hebert who uses 3D printing in his art.  He's been especially fascinated lately by the 3D printer that San Diego State University, where he teaches, just bought. (KCET) You can read Kinsee Moran's article at the link above. We first saw his work at the Art San Diego Fair.

Dodecahedron Chains

Fun with 3 d printing

DNA Augmented Reality

Patty Rangel send us these Ideas for DNA..

My ULTIMATE Google Field Trip experience, would include cool looking Augmented Reality sunglasses and audio tour

 

My ULTIMATE Google Field Trip experience, would also include Fingertip sensors so that I could interact with the Augmented Reality information seen through the AR glasses

 

Ideas for DNA...

Ultimately, my Google Field Trip experience, would be a fully immersive audio and visual experience on the go with smaller hardware

 

Deep Storage Project

In 2013 something extraordinary is going to happen. Something so strange and enthralling, that hearing the concept alone makes your imagination fly.

 

Picture this; A vast iron sculpt, some 8m by 8m by 8m, being lowered into the Marianas trench, right to the bottom 11,000 metres down. With us so far? That’s 200 miles off Guam Island between Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Now, are you ready for the plot twist? It’s going to be full of human blood and hair samples, animal DNA and similar samples taken from both trees and plants.  

 

This is art and hard science colliding head on. 30 locations around the world have attracted 5,000 willing donors, rewarded with certificates proving they believed this might be a second chance.

 

Science is progressing faster than the greatest philosophers dare to predict, so who’s to say that there won’t be a point in the future when these samples can’s be utilized to bring people and endangered species back to life? It could be 500 to 100,000 years from now. Who knows? But this is a chance to be there when it happens!

How will we have evolved? How will humans be different? The Deep Storage Project is fighting back against the natural decay and erosion destroying all that we know and understand. People are embracing the ideals of the The Deep Storage Project, and in doing so, they are becoming a voice to be heard in the future.

 

http://www.deepstorageproject.com/Deep-Storage/INTRODUCTION