First, a pic of Finn and Ro on the edge of the Grand Canyon:

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I've long been a fan of 3D processes. I spent much of my grade-school playing with a set of red/blue glasses from a Sunday drive-in movie. It took a while to find just the right Crayola markers to draw my own 3D posters. (The orange and the sky blue from the pastels set did the trick). I had to draw each thing twice; once in orange and once in ( Read more... )

It doesn't come with a fancy Broadway Musical number like Buggy Saints Row, but this example of next-gen gaming gone wrong is fascinating.

Crysis Spinning Enemy BugCrysis uses a really clever physics engine which can generalize about object interactions at a whole new level of detail. Game developers rely on third party physics engines more and ( Read more... )

In 1995, a company called Fractal Design released a simple 3D figure rendering package called Poser. Although it was supposed to be meant for certain professional and creative projects, the opportunity for abuse was clear.

This is exactly why such software should be kept out of the hands of certain kinds of geeks.They didn't even bother to switch ( Read more... )

A little while back bibulb showed me some Blue Man Group videos, and I immediately noticed they had employed an onstage illusion that fascinated me. They were doing a riff on the phenomenon of Persistence of Vision. They had a group of what appeared to be dancing figures, but which were, in fact, just a huge 3D zoetrope. BiBulb didn't know exactly what ( Read more... )