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The Saga Of Biorn [Video]

Posted: Mar 11, 2011
Category: Cool Stuff, Game Development, Video

The Saga Of Biorn from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.

I have to admit: when I watch videos like this, I can’t help but think about game ideas. Like the video I posted a few weeks ago with the pencil-sketch war tribes, this makes me think of a civilization-style game where people control tribes, each with their own unique personality, culture, and appearance.

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3D Video Mapping

Posted: Feb 19, 2011
Category: Cool Stuff, Video

I thought this was a pretty clever use of 3D mapping to change the appearance of a room.

Living Room from Mr.Beam on Vimeo.

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Dogfight Animation [Video]

Posted: Dec 13, 2010
Category: Cool Stuff, Video

[via Fubiz] Pretty cool animation of a dogfight. It seems to be an advertisement for an animated movie.

PATHS OF HATE long trailer from Platige Image on Vimeo.

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Laser Murals [Video]

Posted: Dec 13, 2010
Category: Cool Stuff, Video

This is just a cool video of some laser murals in London. As far as I can guess, I think they’re using a digital projector, and they use the laser pointer and a digital camera/webcam to add to the mural. When the camera sees the laser pointer dot, it adds the corresponding location to the computer’s projected image.

Lighter On London :: Laser Murals from greentomatocars on Vimeo.

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Lego Antikythera Mechanism [Video]

Posted: Dec 10, 2010
Category: Cool Stuff, Video

Just pretty cool.

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Google Earth, Now With 100% More Trees

Posted: Nov 30, 2010
Category: Cool Stuff, Video

Just thought this was pretty cool. What’s next? More accurate architectural models? Sliders so users can see the city in different years and historical periods? Accurate real-time traffic models?

Update: Google Earth already contains historical data. They do this by overlaying old maps over the same location. Though they don’t have 3D models of the locations.

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Can You Name All 10 Guns?

Posted: Nov 23, 2010
Category: Cool Stuff, Fun

This is from a shirt on ThinkGeek. It’s ten guns from sci-fi movies. As a hint, they also show the year the movie was released. I could name seven out of ten. (Apparently, the “1967″ should actually be “1976″, but that still didn’t help me figure out what it was.) And here’s a link to the shirt.

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Interesting Interview with Penny Arcade

Posted: Nov 20, 2010
Category: Business, Cool Stuff, Video

Heh. I almost wrote “Interesting Interview with Tycho and Gabe” as the title. Anyway, it was also interesting to hear about their beginnings, and their story a company scheming against them.

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Nazi Maps For A US Invasion

Posted: Nov 16, 2010
Category: Cool Stuff

A friend of mine sent these to me. They’re from March 1942 (four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor), and they are imagined invasions of the US by the Axis powers. I believe these are invasion scenarios imagined by someone at Life magazine, not authentic invasion plans. (Given that they were published in March 1942, they must be imaginary plans because the US wouldn’t have captured some invasion plans so early.) Some of the maps include a “fifth column”, which makes me wonder if they thought German-Americans and Japanese-Americans would rally to support the invasion of the US.


Click here to see the original article with more maps.

On this topic, it’s also interesting to take a look at the Zimmerman telegram. The Zimmerman telegram was the message sent from Germany to Mexico in 1917 (World War 1) suggesting that Mexico attack the United States. It resulted in the US getting involved in World War 1 against Germany.

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10 Centuries of European History

Posted: Nov 15, 2010
Category: Cool Stuff, Uncategorized, Video

My only criticism of this video is that it should play faster, and should show the year somewhere. If this is ten centuries, then the years should correspond to roughly:

1000 AD – 1100 AD = 0:00 – 0:32
1100 AD – 1200 AD = 0:32 – 1:05
1200 AD – 1300 AD = 1:05 – 1:37
1300 AD – 1400 AD = 1:37 – 2:10
1400 AD – 1500 AD = 2:10 – 2:42
1500 AD – 1600 AD = 2:42 – 3:15
1600 AD – 1700 AD = 3:15 – 3:37
1700 AD – 1800 AD = 3:37 – 4:20
1800 AD – 1900 AD = 4:20 – 4:52
1900 AD – 2000 AD = 4:52 – 5:22

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