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POPSWindows Visual Blog Editor This is pretty cool. Kind of reminds me of Macromedia Dreamweaver, but for blogs. Any bloggers out there, what do you think? Good idea? I think it's a great idea, so I downloaded the beta version to see how it goes.
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POPSThe Fantastic in Art & Fiction >>Images were selected for their intrinsic relationship to the topic, because they illuminated an important dynamic, or quite simply because they were unusually striking.Though, inevitably, some familiar pieces will be found in these pages, we have attempted to favor rare or unusual works that, to our knowledge, have not been reproduced before. Hence the concomitant emphasis on book illustration, and on a wealth of images that have remained more or less invisible in canonical art histories. Because of its rich and varied modes of representation the Fantastic also lends itself quite easily to interdisciplinary approaches. Psychology and sociology, art and literary history, anthropology and folklore among other disciplines, can provide avenues of investigation useful in the study of such basic critical or analytical concepts for the Fantastic as repression, the uncanny, indeterminacy, or the postmodern.<<
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POPSHypercube animation This is the first time I ever saw one of these actually moving. This is also a great site for optical illusions and visual tricks of the mind.
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POPSMore titillating infographics: Product Space & Development of Nations Cool infographic showing material types, products, proximity of manufacture, world trade volumes of each. According to the brief, "proximity" here refers to the theory that a country's ability to manufacture a product (e.g. apples) depends on its ability to produce related ones (e.g. another fruit like pears). Part of information supporting the paper The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabasi, Hausmann). There is also a page where you can download individual country maps. Via VisualComplexity .
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POPSBiologically Inspired Vision Systems The most effective method for getting around such problems is to train a learning algorithm on a set of images and allow it to extract the features they have in common; two wheels aligned with the road could signal a car, for example. Serre and Poggio believe that the human vision system uses a similar approach, but one that depends on a hierarchy of successive layers in the visual cortex. The first layers of the cortex detect an object's simpler features, such as edges, and higher layers integrate that information to form our perception of the object as a whole.
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POPS Music Decoded From 600-Year-Old Carvings "Musicians recently unlocked a 600 year old mystery(http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL014372920070501) that had been encoded into the walls of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, the one featured in The Da Vinci Code. The song was carved into the walls of the chapel in the form of geometric shapes that a father-son team — both are musicians and the father is an ex-Royal Air Force code breaker — finally matched to so-called Chladni patterns (see the Wikipedia article on cymatics). The recovered melody was paired with traditional lyrics (translated into Latin) and recorded; the result can be heard in this video (also linked from the musicians' website at http://www.tjmitchell.com/stuart/rosslyn.html ). The video also gives a visual representation of how the engravings match up to the cymatic patterns."
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POPSThe Myth of the Nonpartisan Middle "The Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) surveyed more than 24,000 Americans who voted in 2006...The CCES survey asked about 14 national issues..."
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POPSWatch the Music Music (Sonata, K. 455 by Domenico Scarlatti) and its visual representation. Almost makes you go into a trance.
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