Étienne-Jules Marey, Buse volant avec l’appareil qui signale les mouvements décrits par l’extrémité de son aile, 1886
Hoy cuando una globalización homogeneizadora nos quiere a todos iguales, a los fines del capitalismo salvaje. Cuando un modelo económico soguero, agro exportador y extractivo, convoca a unificar las luchas por tierra y territorio.
Parece más oportuno que nunca recurrir al saber ancestral de los antiguos custodios de la Pachamama.
Vvvv
vvvv (commonly pronounced German pronunciation: [fiːɐ̯ faʊ] (vier V) meaning “4 v’s” in German or German pronunciation: [faʊ fiːɐ̯] (V vier) meaning “v4” in German) is a general purpose toolkit with a special focus on real-time video synthesis and programming large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video. VVVV uses a data flow approach and a visual programming interface for rapid prototyping and developing. Applications written in vvvv are commonly called patches. Patches consist of a network of nodes. Patches can be created, edited and tested while they are running. Patches are stored on the disk in standard XML format. VVVV is written in Borland Delphi, plugins can be developed in the .NET Framework in C#.
Most nodes handle data in a one dimensional array of values, called Spreads. In addition to traditional vector algebra this allows programming of particle systems, as also rendering nodes and deal with arrays of values accordingly. If an operation has to deal with arrays of different lengths, the shorter array gets repeated to fill up the larger.
VVVV includes a feature it calls boygrouping, where one computer controls a number of slave computers to operate in parallel, with all programming and editing is done on the master computer.
The toolkit has the ability to work with HLSL Shaders which are written in their common textual form but are embedded in the data flow language and are instantly compiled and uploaded as soon any part of their source code is changed.
With a focus on video synthesis and processing, VVVV uses the toolkit DirectX and, as such, is available for Microsoft Windows systems only, although it is known to run stably under Parallels and VMWare Fusion. VVVV currently supports DirectX 9 (including PS 3 and VS 3 shader techniques).
VVVV was initially developed by the Frankfurt-based media collective MESO as an in-house tool for their own projects, but was then released on the web-page. VVVV is now maintained by the VVVV group.
VVVV is free for non-commercial use and available for download at its website. Any commercial uses require a license.
Wikipedia.
Bug Eyes Inspire Camera’s Unique Imaging Capabilities
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created the first digital cameras with designs that mimic those of ocular systems found in dragonflies, bees, praying mantises and other insects. This class of technology offers exceptionally wide-angle fields of view, with low aberrations, high acuity to motion and nearly infinite depth of field.
Taking cues from Mother Nature, the cameras exploit large arrays of tiny focusing lenses and miniaturized detectors in hemispherical layouts, just like eyes found in arthropods. The devices combine soft, rubbery optics with high performance silicon electronics and detectors, using ideas first established in research on skin and brain monitoring systems by John Rogers, a Swanlund Chair Professor at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his collaborators.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/bug%E2%80%99s-eye-inspire-camera%E2%80%99s-unique-imaging-capabilities
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carina nebula, about 8000 light years away, 50 light years long in this false colour image. bright star in second panel is about 100-150 times the mass of the sun.
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