Author: gulley

3-D visualization without those pesky glasses (think of “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi!”) may really happen someday soon: Actuality – 3-D Volumetric Display Technology.

See what a picture sounds like with the voice sonification applet. I’m not sure if it’s useful, but it’s cool. Make sure and try out the Shepard scale near the bottom of the page. The endlessly ascending scale is kind of creepy.

You are aware of much much less than you think you are, even when you take into account how much less you are aware of than you think you are. New Scientist: Blind to change

If you wasted any time playing the Theseus puzzle mentioned in this space a few days ago, take a look at this beautiful double maze puzzle on the Sega site. It’s not as tricky, but it sure is easy on the eyes. I’m a sucker for the old medieval-map stars and parchment look. It’s sort of a Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books kind of look.

This is old news, but Noodle is a very entertaining way to make music graphically. Definitely worth the time it takes to download and install, if only to sort out the odd user interface.

Before I got sucked into the software world, I was seriously considering grad school in robotics. Biomorphic robots, that is to say robots whose systems are modeled in one way or another on biological systems, have always fascinated me. The folks at Iguana Robotics have put together the world’s coolest biomorphic robot links.

Weblog to watch: genehack. Interesting to see what life is like on the inside of the bioinformatics world.

I hadn’t realized you can find the entire A.E. Waite tarot deck online at the sacred-texts.com site.

Consider an exotic vacation to a hotel entirely made of ice.

The iota center claims to be about building a community of people interested in “the art of light and movement” or “visual music.” The concept is intriguing, but the site isn’t very impressive. The most useful part is the links page. Thanks to Golan Levin for the pointer.