notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

Official Blog: A picture of Earth through time via iamdanw

revdancatt:

Cobra Mk3 just about fits in a box.

(javascript to sunflow render sequence)

Elite.

Chris McVeigh (aka powerpig’s) latest Lego creation: a miniature Polaroid camera complete with an ejecting photograph. (via brothers-brick)

Glitch drone, from this post by James Bridle where the creator of the ‘canon drone’ image posts the original image used for the background. 

Remember the ISS photography maps from Nathan Bergey? The ones where he asked “Draw a dot for the location of every photo of Earth taken from space what do we see?” Well, everyone loves an animated gif, so here’s the final “mission mapped separately” image rejigged as an animation.

It’s a little janky, because despite being a developer not a designer I ended up wrangling this in Photoshop, but hopefully you like it anyway.

dconstruct, by iamdanw

From Isometrics, by Tim Reynolds (indirectly via, via)

dailymeh:

Muybridge is mostly known for his photographs of horses in motion. Above is part of one sequence. These pictures were taken in order to settle the question of whether or not all the horse’s hooves at any time during the trot are off the ground simultaneously. As can be seen here, the answer is yes. But that’s precisely it: it can only be seen because Muybridge has frozen the motion. By animating these pictures, you negate their whole reason for existing: they exist because they allow us to see something we can’t see when the horse is in motion.

The whole post is worth reading. That said, I stand by my posting of an animated gif re-animating the Muybridge photographs, because of the format; there’s something odd about that analogue-digital repurposing split.

There’s also something zoetropic about Google’s presentation that is a nice effect, even if the 

Eadward Muybridge’s sequence of photos of a horse running, converted into an animated GIF. Via twohundredfiftysixcolors, “a 16mm film that traces the arc of increased complexity and pointed use of the animated gif”.

toffeemilkshake:

My first animated gif (for about 15 years).

Made with the afore-linked thing.

This is good.