March 2009
4 posts
Alex McDowell at Wexner Center →
Attn: Columbus geeks. Alex McDowell, the amazing production designer for Watchmen, Fight Club (top 5 fav for me), The Crow (also way up there), Minority Report, and many other visually-amazing movies, is giving a free lecture at The Wexner Center April 7th. Anyone game?
Computer Vision and Massive Modeling
Two great pieces from the Technology Quarterly in this week’s Economist:
Model Behavior - A look at how fire safety engineers are customizing Massive (the crowd simulation software created for and popularized by The Lord of the Rings trilogy) to analyze how people react in a crisis. Studying evacuation scenarios in this way has led to much more realistic results than previous fluid-based...
WatchI love these sort of remove-the-crap-so-I-can-get-on-with-my-reading tools. I’ve tried this bookmarklet on a handful of sites and works really well. See also: Instapaper and my favorite iPhone app.