May 2005
The Archives
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05.25.05The pathway to Doom?These pictures are not modified in any way. One very strange door in Pezenas While visiting the city of Pezenas in the southern France I discovered this strange door. So, what is this? 1. Someone trying to make their door look more impressive than it actually is 2. An architect eating magic mushrooms 3. Made on basis of blueprints from a very buggy 3D software 4. My digital camera eating magic mushrooms 5. This is actually the pathway to Doom 12 (to be released in 2012) I have no idea. Of course it makes me wonder what's inside. Comments please... Edit: I can see that ...
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05.25.05Invasion of the space invadersA couple of weeks ago I was travelling in Montpellier. I snapped this picture. I had some idea that I had read an article on this project in Wired, but did not remember much of what it was. Then this article on BoingBoing brings it all together and points me to www.space-invaders.com.
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05.25.05Everything… update.The ever so utterly intelligent Thorolf Tønjum has solved the programming contest using Microsoft Excel. And, the result is amazing. Something shows up. I am sure. Actually, it seems like the center of all entertainment - Las Vegas has something to do with this? ;-) Link to the XLS-sheet: allsee_6d.xls
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05.24.05Everything you would ever want to seeCould Google render all possible television pictures and take over the industry? I am working within the television industry. When going from analogue to digital equipment we started to treat our content as numbers instead of electrical pulses of different magnitude. When working with numbers things get more absolute than the analogue electrical pulses. Suddenly it struck me that there actually is a limited number of possible television pictures out there. And, that it would be possible to create a computer program that could render all these pictures. Have a look at this experiment: We make a very simple picture. It consist of 4 ...
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05.20.05High flying broadbandI have been reading about airliners implementing WLAN and broadband in their planes, but never tried it. I know the tecnology, and I have been using mail since 1992. Still, it was somewhat special when I just recieved a mail from a coworker. He is on his way to somwhere far east and is right now 11 000 m over Mongolia.He is sitting there, 11 000 meters over Mongolia, watching Norwegian TV, listening to his favourite radio channels and sending email to his coworkers. I was pretty impressed when I travelled with Singapore Airlines from Penang to Singapore back in ...