prosthetic knowledge
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WLE by Holger Lippmann
An ongoing series of laser-etched computational art created with Processing:
WLE is a generative processing based work series, realized using
laser engraving tech into plywood.
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Laser Cut Street Map Videos
CutMaps is an Etsy store which creates intricate mountable street maps cut from boards and framed. Here are two videos showing the process in action:
Cut Maps are laser cut street maps of the world’s most famous and recognizable cities. These maps are cut from high quality recycled mounting board and framed. You may choose any color combination you wish.
More at CutMaps here
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Slow Motion Footage of Mosquitoes Shot Down With Laser
The video below runs slower than the GIFs above suggest:
Intellectual Ventures’ Mosquito Laser Shootdown Sequence, demonstrated at TED 2010.
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Snail Trail by Philipp Artus
Great installation / stop-motion animation of “A snail invents the wheel and goes through a cultural evolution to finally get back to its origin.” created with a computer controlled laser on a phosphorescent surface, briefly absorbing the light.
Below are videos of both the animation and laser sculpture:
Snail Trail from Cartoon Brew on Vimeo.
snail trail - laser sculpture from Philipp Artus on Vimeo.
It has a low vector look about it, makes me think of Vib Ribbon and Sonic The Hedgehog.
You can find out more at Philipp’s website here
UPDATE: Added bonus - added above is an animated gif of the whole animation loop [link]
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Ricoh Contactless Thermal Rewritable Laser System
New tech from Japan can rewrite labels on shipping containers quickly.
While this may seem boring, it could be a step towards rewritable printer paper, reinventing the medium … besides, it looks very sci-fi … from DigInfo:
The thermal rewritable laser media used in this system has been newly developed by Ricoh. It consists of three layers: a UV-blocking layer, an oxygen-blocking layer, and a recording layer. This medium is highly resistant to fading, so it can be used for at least five years, even in outdoor environments.
More at DigInfo here
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Chris Cunningham: jaqapparatus
NOWNESS have put together a short video on Chris Cunningham, with some brief background of his work and his new project, ‘jaqapparatus’, an audio-video performance with robotic arms, lasers and projections.
For “jaqapparatus1”, his first installation unveiled last month at the Audi City London high-tech concept store—a shadowy, sci-fi set involving two laser-firing robots locked in what seemed like a brutal mating ritual-cum-war—Cunningham cast two Talos motion-controlled camera rigs as his anthropomorphized protagonists. “Mounted on the robots heads are powerful lasers which they use to attack, repel and communicate with each other,” explains Cunningham, “a kind of duel, a surreal mating display which sees each machine trying to dominate the other.”
Embedded below is the video, or you can watch it at NOWNESS here
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Photografting Shapes with Laser Light and Molecules
Similar to 3D printing, but using laser light to create forms at a molecular level - via Science Daily:
With laser beams, molecules can be fixed at exactly the right position in a three dimensional material. The new method developed at the Vienna University of Technology can be used to grow biological tissue or to create micro sensors.
There are many ways to create three dimensional objects on a micrometer scale. But how can the chemical properties of a material be tuned at micrometer precision? Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology developed a method to attach molecules at exactly the right place. When biological tissue is grown, this method can allow the positioning of chemical signals, telling living cells where to attach. The new technique also holds promise for sensor technology: A tiny three dimensional “lab on a chip” could be created, in which accurately positioned molecules react with substances from the environment.
“3-D-photografting” is the name of the new method.
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The Rosetta Disk
Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project have created a miniature archive featuring all of the world languages laser etched onto a small disc that can fit in your hand:
The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history. We have attempted to create a unique physical artifact which evokes the great diversity of human experience as well as the incredible variety of symbolic systems we have constructed to understand and communicate that experience.
The Disk surface shown here, meant to be a guide to the contents, is etched with a central image of the earth and a message written in eight major world languages: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” The text begins at eye-readable scale and spirals down to nano-scale. This tapered ring of languages is intended to maximize the number of people that will be able to read something immediately upon picking up the Disk, as well as implying the directions for using it—‘get a magnifier and there is more.’
… The pages are microscopically etched and then electroformed in solid nickel, a process that raises the text very slightly - about 100 nanometers - off of the surface of the disk. Each page is only 400 microns across - about the width of 5 human hairs - and can be read through a microscope at 650X as clearly as you would from print in a book. Individual pages are visible at a much lower magnification of 100X. The outer ring of text reads “Languages of the World” in eight major world languages.
Here is a video by Scott Oller about the Rosetta Project:
Rosetta from Scott Oller on Vimeo.
You can find out more about the project here
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Eye Beam Generator
Fun web toy using facial recognition adds laser beams fired out of eyes to uploaded images.
You can either use an image URL or upload one - site is in Japanese, but it should be straightforward to find what you want to use.
Try it out here
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A Laser Beam Towards the Milky Way’s Centre
From ESO:
In mid-August 2010 ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky snapped this amazing photo at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. A group of astronomers were observing the centre of the Milky Way using the laser guide star facility at Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
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Fade Away 1
Project uses tweets featuring words ‘fade away’, mechanically writes them onto light-sensitive surface with laser, which eventually disappear over time:
Some people say that what you put on the internet never goes away. Perhaps it’s just a cautious way of thinking about what you upload, but in reality, things really do fade away. And if a particular datum isn’t ever completely eradicated in your lifetime, it gets diluted among the huge amount of data that get uploaded everyday.
It was on this theme that I created Fade Away 1 for my Introduction to Physical Computing final. It performs a twitter search for the term “fade away” and uses an ultra violet laser diode to write these tweets on a phosphorescent surface. Each character has been programmed into an Arduino, which controls the servo motors and the laser.More info, including links to source code, can be found here
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‘True 3D’ Display Using Laser Plasma Technology
Technology is getting closer to the current 3D Holy Grail - the ‘Princess Leia Hologram’:
This True 3D display technology, developed by Burton, uses a laser to creates luminous points of light at desired locations in air or underwater.
This system is an evolved version of technology co-developed by AIST and Keio University, first announced in 2006. It works by focusing laser light, to produce plasma excitation from the oxygen and nitrogen in the air. The researchers state that this is the world’s first technology to show pictures without the constraint of a screen.
“This system can create about 50,000 dots per second, and its frame rate is currently about 10-15 fps. But we’re working to improve the frame rate to 24-30 fps.”
In this demonstration, to make the system more compact, a green laser is shone into water from below. But if a laser source with higher output is used, images can be displayed in air. A color display can also be achieved by using a combination of red, green, and blue lasers.
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Light painter Jeremy Jackson takes a long exposure photograph, with a laser pen pointing into rain. What is interesting is the snowflake-like shapes that become apparent.
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Brighton Pier lit up by lasers
More at the Creative Review
