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Amazing car cut-away illustrations

It always look amazing how unbelievably detailed some car illustrations can be. With the cutaway technique, illustration masters like David Kimble or Kevin Husley create those breathtaking technical views of automobiles.

There is a nice set of that kind illustrations at Cartype
Worth of checking!

The New Model Makers

pictured: Pagoda Tower by Thomas Phifer Arch. and Eyebeam Atelier by DS+R
Explore 2 excellent model making studios, Radii Inc. and Situ Studio. Incredible works of detail.

MacBook AirCraft

There comes the new MacBook AirCraft for all those who didn't like the lack of some additional devices and ports within MacBook Air.

The Photosynth Technology by Microsoft

With the collaboration between the University of Washington and Microsoft Research.
Microsoft presents Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change forever the way you think about digital photos.
With Photosynth you can:
Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo whether it's megapixels or gigapixels in size.
See where pictures were taken in relation to one another.
Find similar photos to the one you're currently viewing.
Send a collection - or a particular view of one - to a friend.

Photosynth could connect your photographs into a seamless web of images and information, allowing you to browse a virtual universe of interconnected scenes that constantly evolves and changes over time.

Video from Microsoft Labs
Source Microsoft Labs

The blog from the labs

Cloud

London based Troika has been commissioned by Artwise Curators to create a signature piece at the entrance of the new British Airways luxury lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5. In response, they created Cloud, a five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate the entire skin of the sculpture.
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(via Pixelsumo )

Algorithmic, Systemic, Generative, Contextual by Don Relyea

The Big Hairy Bush print was generated by a custom particle fx application written in image lingo within Adobe Director.

A small gif thumbnail of the President was downloaded and is used by the application for reference. The gif is parsed by the application at runtime grayscale index color values are stored in a lookup table. A particle manager was coded to prevent the application from overloading. The particle manager references the lookup table and based on the lookup table data it assigns a group of hair particles to various locations in the canvas area and initializes them.

"Systemic Abstractors vs. Pubic Realists" is a custom software application that is coded in Adobe Director and C++.
In "Systemic Abstractors vs. Pubic Realists" there are several classes of program objects that battle on the image area for dominance and control of space. The systemic abstractors abstract what has already been drawn.
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Don Relyea Website

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MacBook Air

Apple revealed the world's thinnest notebook, MacBook Air

KDU member BOB Partington's new Blood Pen

Google’s GMail security failure screws a Blogger/Designer!

Having had my Gmail hacked this past week, I would like to inform all Gmail users of the security risks. Last year well-known designer/blogger David Airey had his website hijacked (and held at ransom), via the Gmail hack. I am glad David managed to sort his problems out, but without such technical knowledge I am not sure if I would have so much success, very concerning. Read his story