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  • Pavement Illusions

    February 13, 2005

    An Anamorphic 3D Illusion by Julian Beever Stumbled upon Pavement Drawings, a gallery of artwork by artist Julian Beever drawn on the ground. I enjoyed the “anamorphic illusions”:
    Anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular viewpoint.

    It must be pretty cool to come across something like this in your day-to-day travel. Check out hist other work too.

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    DSri Seah
  • Blocked Banners!

    February 12, 2005

    So I’m up here in Maine, looking at my website, and noticing the blue top “David Seah” banner was missing. Not only on Firefox, but also on Internet Explorer! After some poking around, it turns out that Norton Internet Security has an advertising blocker in it that does not display any image named “banner.gif”. So for months, anyone who has been running Norton Internet Security has not see the top banner. I renamed banner.gif to topbanner.gif, and the problem has gone away. I suspect other ad blocking software does something similar.

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  • Timehunt

    February 12, 2005

    Visit SiteThis is from 2002, but still cool. Timehunt is a kind of online game that combines elements of the Renaissance, machines made by obscure genius, and good old fashioned treasure hunting. A fine use use of illustration and shockwave. Made in Slovakia!
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  • Protein OS

    February 11, 2005

    Visit SiteDiane passed along an article about researchers using Google to extract meaning from related word pairs, which has ramifications for Artificial Intelligence. The cool thing was the hosting website, Protein OS, which appears to be a UK collective of some sort. With topics spanning art, music, science, and culture, I find it hard to pin down… kind of like a Wired by practice, not observation. It’s a neat portal to a place not dominated by Walmart sensibilities.
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  • Crixa on the Mac

    February 10, 2005

    Whoa! Here’s something I never expected to see anytime soon…Crixa running on my Macintosh!

    Jeremy had actually ported the low level graphics and sound classes to SDL, which means we have cross-platformness. This is the first time I’ve actually seen it run on my Powerbook.

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