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You know, I’ve seen the fantastic “The Beatles: Rock Band” cinematic a few years ago from amazingly talented animator Robert Valley, but I’ve never seen this ending clip from the game. His style is just so darn.. stylish!!
And if you haven’t seen the original piece I mentioned:
Variations of “Pythagoras tree” in space, using Structure Synth.
Check out HD versions in YoutubeVariaciones del “Árbol Pitagórico” en el espacio, usando Structure Synth.
Ver versiones HD en Youtube
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Destino
A short film that Salvador Dali and Walt Disney began working together on in 1945. It was not completed until 2003. You can find out more about it here.
Fermi Epicycles: The Vela Pulsar’s Path
Credit: NASA, DOE, International Fermi LAT CollaborationExplanation: Exploring the cosmos at extreme energies, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits planet Earth every 95 minutes. By design, it rocks to the north and then to the south on alternate orbits in order to survey the sky with its Large Area Telescope (LAT). The spacecraft also rolls so that solar panels are kept pointed at the Sun for power, and the axis of its orbit precesses like a top, making a complete rotation once every 54 days. As a result of these multiple cycles the paths of gamma-ray sources trace out complex patterns from the spacecraft’s perspective, like this mesmerising plot of the path of the Vela Pulsar. Centered on the LAT instrument’s field of view, the plot spans 180 degrees and follows Vela’s position from August 2008 through August 2010. The concentration near the center shows that Vela was in the sensitive region of the LAT field during much of that period. Born in the death explosion of a massive star within our Milky Way galaxy, the Vela Pulsar is a neutron star spinning 11 times a second, seen as the brightest persistent source in the gamma-ray sky.
NASA APOD 4 May 2012
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Salvador Dalí in collaboration with Walt Disney - Destino
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In the academic world Dover Publications is widely known for publishing standard texts in mathematics. To me they’re known for publishing books with the best cover designs around, which truly make them stand out among the boring rest.
These are fantastic. If you can make a math book look inviting … well, you’ve done something special.
I kid, of course. Math is awesome. I’m only allowed to give math a hard time because I am the child of mathematicians.
Any other favorite artistic textbook covers? Reblog with your favorites or send them my way via the fan mail button or Twitter.
I would love these on my shelf!
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Fugai Ekun (1568-1664) - Hotei
In this Hotei is emulating the sixth patriarch of Buddhism in China who, when asked by a nun to recite part of a sutra and explain it to her, he told her that he could not read. She remarked that if he could not read the sutras, how could he understand the teachings?
“Consider,” he said, “the moon as enlightenment.” And saying so he pointed at the moon and continued, “My finger then, represents the sutras. You do not need my finger to see the moon.”
