Virtual reality testing: virtual fashion shoot of 3D object
Virtual reality testing: virtual fashion shoot of 3D object
If you're new here, you may want to first register and subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today, we’re doing a glamorous virtual fashion fashion shoot of the caveman co-designed object we created yesterday on Shapeways. This is virtual reality testing. This is the future. VR testing is a perfect compliment with 3D printing, because it provides a means to test physical objects before they are even created. In yesterday’s photo post, we created a caveman-designed (or co-designed) object available on Shapeways that we created in homage to the maker movement. (It was a popular monochrome photo from earlier in our photo stream: our blog post on the 11,000 year-old woolly mammoth cave drawing. We converted it into a keychain holder. It truly was caveman design.) So, to do this properly, we need to have a virtual fashion shoot of this object which does not yet exist. (But likely will eventually exist when someone orders it on-demand.)… Read the restCaveman design keychain: blog image to 18K gold jewelry 3D print!
We’re having fun showing our most popular blog and photo posts can now be turned in real, shop-ready products thanks to the maker movement. As an example of data-driven social media, we repurposed a popular image from our social media feed into a 3D printed jewelry item available that is ready-for-purchase in 18K gold and other materials. (Separately, we also converted this blog photo into an in-game virtual reality object, permitting a virtual reality fashion shoot.) This caveman design keychain was co-designed and generated in part by an 11,000-year old caveman illustration of a woolly-mammoth in France. (You can read our original blog article with illustration here. Also, check out a cool data-driven social media video we created featuring some of these items, as well as more serious pop-scientific article on potentially de-extincting the woolly mammoth for interstellar space travel someday.) You can use the Shapeways widget below to manipulate the 3D object and see it from a variety of viewpoints (as well as buy the physical object in a wide-variety of materials, from the extremely inexpensive to the very expensive): So we can say that this keychain was truly co-designed by a French Cro-magnon caveman living 11,000 years ago.… Read the restOur Twitter account is a top 1% global social media influencer
According to social media rating firm Kred, our associated Twitter account is a top 1% of social media influencer globally. (Our Kred score, 751 at the original time of this writing, has since gone higher.) Thought we’d share the Kred badge as our Picture of the Day on our Instagram account. Multiple, third-party social media ratings firms, have consistently put us in the top 1 to 5% of social media influencers globally. We also a high Klout rating, and earlier social media rating firm Magnific ranked us among the most influential locally in Los Angeles. These social media rankings are, of course, an example of analytics (and, potentially, big data). Different rating firms (and techniques) have advantages and disadvantages. Kred’s claim to fame is that they are using a completely open ranking methodology. This is unlike most of their competitors, which feel a need to keep their algorithms secret to prevent gaming, among other issues.… Read the restMartians making Mars canals: Solution to yesterday’s puzzle
Yesterday we presented a puzzle photo. We promised to explain the relationship between the Panama Canal and Mars. Shown here in glorious black and white is the 1887 map by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. It shows “Mars canals.” Were these canals dug by intelligent Martians? Many in the 19th century thought so, and thought they had found proof of space aliens in their telescopes! Schiaperelli (and many others) thought they observed “canals” on Mars.(The map is in Italian or Latin with some legends in German, in part because this version was taken from an 1888 German encyclopedia version.)This has since been shown to be optical illusions; modern high-resolution maps of Mars show no such features.Part of it was mistranslation. Schiaperelli’s use of “Kanal” was translated into English as “canal”, but the usage in the original meant something closer to “channel”, a more neutral term suggesting a natural feature. In any event, everyone got very excited that there might be intelligent Martians building an advanced canal system on Mars for transport.… Read the restPuzzle photo: Panama Canal related to Mars?
For today’s photo post, we have a puzzle: how is the Panama Canal related to the Planet Mars? Continuing on our earlier Mars theme, this is the Panama Canal, as viewed from the top of Ancon Hill in November 2009. Many giant ship container cranes are visible, together with shipping contains, and builds. There is a tiny-looking ship off to the left, and mountains, grass, clouds, and sky in the distance. The blue water of the canal runs through the center of the photo. Wait, did we say Mars theme? What does the Panama Canal have to do with Mars? Photo credit: Wikimedia/Brian Gratwicke/CC-BY-2 A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restRecent Comments
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