The meticulous paper art of Hiroki Saito – a variant of the Japanese art of kirigami (cut paper).
Taking several months to complete, each piece starts with an A3 or A4 sheet of delicate black mulberry-fibre washi paper into which Saito excises staggeringly detailed patterns before adding coloured paper as a backdrop.
Behold: the Ares S1 Project Spyder: a completely roofless variant of the S1 coupe created (like its sister) with computer-aided design and computational fluid dynamics to maximise slip.
The combination of a lightweight carbon fibre body and a 715bhp V8 engine rocket the thing to 100km’h in 2.7 seconds. 24 will be released next year and the price of yours is available on request.
Don’t forget your helmet unless you want to be picking flies out of your eye sockets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zoJP2FkpgU
In case you missed it: excerpts from the live stream of a recent SPFL Championship match (in an empty stadium on account of lockdown) between Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ayr United.
Caledonian stadium has no camera operator, relying instead on an AI controlled tracking camera programmed to follow the ball.
Except it’s not following the ball is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QliKejzLQs
A brief but fascinating animation showing the engineering of the early 15th century Charles Bridge in Prague – decades of Medieval construction distilled into one animated minute.
Behold: the centre of NGC 6514, aka, Messier 20, aka the Trifid nebula. To wit:
Three prominent dust lanes that give the Trifid its name all come together. Mountains of opaque dust appear near the bottom, while other dark filaments of dust are visible threaded throughout the nebula. A single massive star visible near the center causes much of the Trifid’s glow. The Trifid, cataloged as M20, is only about 300,000 years old, making it among the youngest emission nebulas known. The star forming nebula lies about 9,000 light years away toward the constellation of the Archer (Sagittarius). The region pictured here spans about 10 light years. The featured image is a composite with luminance taken from an image by the 8.2-m ground-based Subaru Telescope, detail provided by the 2.4-m orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, color data provided by Martin Pugh and image assembly and processing provided by Robert Gendler.
Previously: Spitzer’s Trifid
(Image: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope, Martin Pugh; Processing: Robert Gendler)
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A full moon over the Wild Atlantic Way to perfectly mark Halloween
(Pic: David Morris)
Trapped on Earth by a bolt of lightning, a lost ghost is taken in and befriended by jovial maintenance worker Albert: another impressive graduation short from students of Gobelins, L’École de L’Image.
Previously: T’As Vendu Mes Rollers?
Behold: the stars at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy imaged by the Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo observatory in Chile.
The first image, while vast, shows a mere 10 million of the estimated 100-400 billion stars of the Milky Way, which is only one one of an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the Universe.
Have your melon properly twisted by the full sized zoomable version here.
