砷士的筆記本: 10/17/11

2011年10月17日星期一

充滿古怪幽默感的香港紙藝家Linus Hui

大人物網站前幾天才幫大家介紹了「十位紙藝家的極致藝術」，我們馬上又抓到了另一隻同樣「玩紙」玩得令人拍案叫絕的漏網之魚，特別的是這位紙藝藝術家Linus Hui，可是來自我們鄰近的香港，用一張張的彩色紙張創作出充滿幽默感與童趣的紙藝作品。

用iPod Touch畫出水彩肖像畫的日本神人！

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雖然說傳統繪畫是所有藝術的來源，在現今數位時代科技越來越普遍，許多畫作也開始轉向數位化，而眾多繪圖軟體能夠提供的風格後製也十分豐富。這樣的繪圖軟體動輒一套數萬元台幣起跳，可不是每個人都能買得起。如果認為沒有錢買高貴軟體而畫不出漂亮的圖畫，那麼小編介紹的這一篇可就沒有藉口囉。因為以下所有的圖畫通通都是用iPod Touch或是iPad繪製完成。

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18TB Hard Drives Possible Using Table Salt

18TB Hard Drives Possible Using Table Salt:

If you thought hard drive storage had maxed out at 3TB you might be interested to know that researchers at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) have developed a new production method which theoretically could take hard drive storage to 18 TB using plain old table salt or more specifically, sodium chloride within the manufacturing process.

The research team headed up by Dr Joel Yang has discovered a way to increase the data density of a drive to 3.3 Terabit/inch2, effectively meaning 18TB hard drives are possible. Data on a traditional hard drive is stored using nanoscopic magnetic grains. With several of these grains clustered together measuring around 7nm are then used to store one bit of information. Hence if you can pack them together more densely more storage is then possible within the same amount of space.

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Disney Research Create SideBySide Interactive Projectors, Bringing A New Twist To Multiplayer Gaming (video)

Disney Research Create SideBySide Interactive Projectors, Bringing A New Twist To Multiplayer Gaming (video):

Disney Research have developed a new and innovative concept called SideBySide which provides a method for gamers to be able to interact with each other using projected characters. The SideBySide system projects images onto a surface which then become aware and responsive to other nearby projections.

Currently the system allows for interaction within games and also to allow enables applications to exchange data via a “dragging and dropping” method from one person’s projected image to another. Watch the video after the jump to see the new SideBySide Interactive Projectors in action.

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