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more about #software more comments → Ursus Maritimus: George Orwell is turning in his grave. more » Bret Mogilefsky: Thanks for following up the previous post with mention of Wikitude AR! :) more » Grey_Area: Oddly this program takes three times as many iterations to produce Picasso's Guernica. more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Or, if you have photoshop, you can just reverse engineer the effect in 5 minutes, with a better, sexier Mona. more » zenpoet: Sounds very cool. I haven't read the article, so this is probably a dumb question, but is he just using a home computer for this, or some big iron at ... more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: So the adage is true. If you stick a million Pentiums in a million Dells, soon they will create the Mona Lisa. more » Quilt: I'm pretty sure my computer can draw that too. It's called copy and paste. more » crashedpc - Haifisch: A MILLION? Imagine if da Vinci went through that many. Took the guy a weekend, eh? That's pretty cool. I'd argue that Step 1 needs more clarification ... more » strider_mt2k: Interesting discussion on this going on at hackaday. [hackaday.com] more » foolish-rain: Isn't this exactly how Skynet gets started? more » -
#augmentedreality
More Augmented Reality Software That Will Change the Future
Using a new augmented reality (AR) service called Pachube, you can use your smart phone to "see" invisible environmental data about air quality and energy consumption. And we've got another amazing AR application too. More » -
#madscience
A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa
These images represent four steps in one computer program's progress towards recreating the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi-transparent polygons. Swedish programmer Roger Alsing did this simple weekend project with genetic programming that resulted in a program that could generate, on its own, a pretty awesome likeness of the famous painting. So how did he do it? More »
