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Photo Manipulation by Christopher Gilbert
Beautiful Photo Creations By artist and photographer Christopher Gilbert
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
5 hours for Shooting a single photo of Salvador Dali!
This photo of Salvador Dali has taken 5 hours to shoot. The photographer, Philippe Halsman had in total 27 unsuccessful attempts before he could finally mange ti capture the favorite moment.
For each try, Salvador Dali had to jump, three assistants throwing the cats, another one splashing the water and Halsman's wife holding the chair... and all these had to execute simultaneously.
And the end and after five hours of trying, he could manage to capture his favorite photo and create this fantastic masterpiece.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Transparent Phone,Fantastic Design!!
Here’s an official concept phone this time, one created by Aston Martin and Mobiado, the famous luxury gadget designer. What you can see below is a transparent phone running Android and these are all renders, right now. Dubbed the CTP002, this phone is a big sapphire glass surface with titanium edges.
The glass is in fact a capacitive touchscreen and Mobiado hopes to also implement a SIM card slot, a chipset and a battery on this gizmo. Mobiado CTP022 is supposed to connect to the car and its display, with the latter showing a map of local venues and friends from the Foursquare network. Turns out that the camera in your car can snap a photo and post it on Facebook letting everyone know you own an Aston Martin.
The glass is in fact a capacitive touchscreen and Mobiado hopes to also implement a SIM card slot, a chipset and a battery on this gizmo. Mobiado CTP022 is supposed to connect to the car and its display, with the latter showing a map of local venues and friends from the Foursquare network. Turns out that the camera in your car can snap a photo and post it on Facebook letting everyone know you own an Aston Martin.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Map of the World Drawn Entirely Using Facebook Connections!
The above map of the world, drawn by Facebook data structuring intern Paul Butler using connections between 10 million Facebook friends , is interesting enough in itself until you realize that all of the country borders are entirely drawn using Facebook friend connections too. Even if the world was dark and totally unmapped, Facebook could produce a remarkably good approximation of most of its continents’ boundaries, and even the borders of some countries.
It still took some clever math. Butler explains how he did it:
I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line’s color depending on its weight. I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world.
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Later I replaced the lines with great circle arcs, which are the shortest routes between two points on the Earth. Because the Earth is a sphere, these are often not straight lines on the projection.
What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while traveling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life.
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