I want to see this re-imagined as "Hipster's Run." once you reach a certain level of hip, the crystal starts flashing. Next thing you know you are at the carousel and 'sploded by lazer beams.
@riotnrrd: "reimplementation", demonstrated live, 10 months ago? Do you work for fox news?
@Smeagol92055: Been done.
You can do this. Now. For Free. You have been able to do this for months. The Photosynth team demonstrated the exact same technology on the Notre Dame at TED last year.
[www.ted.com]
www.photosynth.com
Oh my god, its from... Microsoft!
RTFM, and feed it your digital photos. Come back to your project in a couple of hours, and enjoy the point cloud fun by hitting "p" in the browser.
The best thing about this technology is the way it points to the end of costly LIDAR scanning. I for one, could not be happier.
Re-read your Revelations. Christianity started science fiction. That is unless you don't consider Jesus piloting a 1600 mile wide cube of gem encrusted crystalline metals to a landing on top of the old Jerusalem science fiction.
Pity about Greece, Turkey and Egypt getting flattened, but consider the spectacle of what is described as something like a Borg cube decorated by an over the top and fabulous bedazzler sticking up 1500 miles out of the Earths atmosphere.
That, my friends, is science fiction entertainment!
And for the Christians who don't realize they are part of the first UFO cult, its all in Revelations, chapter 21.
Bully!
Geeze. They even got the Ratio wrong. Its not surface area to the power of 3/4th, its the surface area times 1.61.
Phi strikes again!
I'm kind of surprised this series did not cover the work of Palo Solari. His ideas about arcologies are about 30 years old now, but if you look at his published work, he's still years ahead of his time.
Sign me up.
Interstellar breeze, makes me feel fine...
But we are all mutants!
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The sad thing now is how the public seems able to tolerate CGI crap.
The latest Star Trek film has a number of scenes that are pure garbage (the Enterprise under construction plates, just for starters) but no one even seems to care.
There are still times you cant beat an excellent matte painting, or even a guy in a rubber suit. Incredibly bad Hulk anyone?
Ian M Bank's "Culture."
Lotsa sexual tension between a knife missile and a ring habitat. It would rock.
@Sunshineyness: In this case its not absolute destruction that they are worried about. By comparing scans from year to year the Park Service can monitor erosion or other processes that could be damaging the monument.
Some friends of mine were asked to perform an emergency scan of the White House on Sept 12th. They got set up on the 13th, and digitized all of the surfaces they could that day. The worst part was standing around with the scanner, which takes 20 minutes per 45 degree sweep, while panicked conservators were hauling all of the portable art out of the building. On the 14th the "all clear" was sounded, so everyone seemed to relax, and the paintings were moved back in on a more relaxed pace.
The capital building and all of the major monuments were digitized in the following month.
Perhaps if the doctor had tits?
Looks like a service pack to me.
(ducks)
Mighty fine splines!
I'd give three points to Clivex. But then I almost flunked my comps exam because I forgot that pesky Nth - 1 century labeling problem.
