Curious to see how the latest preview release of Internet Explorer 9 stacks up against the competition when it comes to HTML5 performance in Windows? So was Download Squad, and it's now revealed its findings in some vivid, if not entirely scientific tests. The end result is that Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 3.7 were well ahead of the pack in the 1,000-fish stress test (with Firefox about 5 or 10 percent ahead of IE), while Opera was stuck somewhere in the middle, and Chrome placed a distant last (and maxed out the CPU) -- all with hardware acceleration enabled, of course, although that had to be done via command line switches in the case of Chrome. Head on past the break to check out the four-way showdown for yourself, as well as an earlier test with just IE9 and Chrome. Takeshi Murata has been influenced by a history of visual music, animation, and abstraction in film, as well as by a long tradition of reworking this history and recycling its cinematic forms. Yet it takes an artist like him to revisit these traditions through digital tools and at the same time to explore a dystopia of the digital age. Murata’s visions are a nightmare of viral editing in which all material becomes an endless liquefied abstraction of information, seemingly floating in and out of barely recognizable figurations. In fact, no image or figure is ever sustained. Every image is pixilated to its essence of endless morphology, driven by currents of psychic state of minds. Sonny John Moore, also known as Skrillex, is an electronic musician from Los Angeles, California, well known for his role as the former frontman for the post-hardcore band From First to Last. In late fall of 2007 he embarked on his very first tour as a solo artist, the Team Sleep Tour with Team Sleep, Strata, and Monster In the Machine. After recruiting a new band lineup, Moore toured North America on the Alternative Press Tour, supporting bands such as All Time Low and The Rocket Summer, and appeared on the cover of Alternative Press' annual '100 Bands You Need To Know' issue. In June, 2008 Moore went into recording for his debut album, titled Bells alongside producer Noah Shain. He is currently signed to Atlantic Records, and runs an imprint label called Owsla, named after an organisation in the book Watership Down. And with this new track of his, he has certainly put himself well into the electro/techno scene. To download his free tracks, click here. A laser that doesn't produce light would ordinarily be a failure. After all, the first two letters of laser stand for light amplification, not light reduction.But a new laser created by scientists at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, shoots beams of night instead of beams of light. The "dark pulses," as the NIST scientists ominously call them, create areas absent of light. The research could improve fiber optic communications. Pulses of light fade or degrade over long distances to cause noise and errors. Dark pulses don't have the same drawbacks, which should improve the transmission and detection of light through fiber optic cables. To read more, click here. Over 100,000 Lego pieces, 4 people a year to create, and a 12 foot by 12 foot chess board make this the largest most awesome Lego hack I’ve ever seen. Take that Lego Printer. For a mere $30,000 you too can have such a setup. Not a lot of information is out yet, but we do know all the pieces are remote controlled via a PC with LabVIEW and a total of 38 NXT controllers are used. Oh, and of course you can see it live at the 2010 Brickworld. Check out a video of a replayed game after the jump. Has the digital zeitgeist blown the CD out of irrelevance and into the realm of retro art curio? I just stumbled upon this hybrid audio object by electronic musician Jeff Mills. Mills' new project 'The Occurrence' blends the truly antiquated with the relatively old-school in the form of a standard CD and five-inch vinyl amalgam on either side of the same circle. This limited release reminds us, of course, of the failed Blu-Ray/DVD crossbreeds that never seemed to take off during the start of the digital disc standards war; but Mills' work will invite comparison between the sound quality and listening experience of the same tracks on either side, creating a more dynamic musical experience. The album is available (with a somewhat droning sample of the included audio) over at Axis Records Architect David Hertz is building Francie Rehwald the home of her dreams: an eco-friendly house on 55 acres in the remote hills of Malibu, California. Called the Wing House, the structure is being built using a commercial Boeing 747-200. We first reported the plans for the house back in 2005. But the structure requires FAA approval as to not be mistaken for a crash site. Boeing 747's are enormous pieces of modern transportation. Measuring 230 feet in length and 63 feet tall, the aircraft has over 17,000 cubic feet of cargo room. That's a lot of house! Which is why the "house"-- using almost all of the 395,000 pound plane--is spread over seven different structures. The main residence dawns the plane's wings while the cockpit has become the Meditation Pavilion. The first class cabin deck is now the Guest House but the oddest transformation is the Animal Barn. Made from the lower half of the fuselage, which forms the cargo hold, the Animal Barn is intended for housing endangered species. Science fiction art had a remarkably different look back in the 70s and 80s, mostly due to the tools that were used (there was no such thing as digital paintings and Photoshop), and as a result, they all posses a style not very prevalent today, from the type of illustrations, to the bright, vivid colors and lighting, vintage sci-fi art manages to look anything like the stuff that’s produced today.
To see more, visit this site. First team production for the students on the Graduate Diploma of Advanced 3D Productions. A team of five students produced this short film in 12 weeks. A full CGI short film about a man and a woman living in a clock. |
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