Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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Australian software company Euclideon claims to have made a nonsense of the polygon count limitations of game graphic engines, showcasing ‘atomic’ levels of detail in this tech demo (which racked up over 1.2 million YouTube hits in the last few days).

Or is it all just a big old scam?

Either way, you gotta love Euclideon CEO Bruce Robert Dell’s voiceover. No, not love. What’s the word? Despise.

 Euclideon’s “Unlimited Detail” Atoms – The Death of Polygons(WhatCulture!)

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Turns out, (steady now) it was all done with CGI. Maheramorne doesn’t look like that.

The tricksiest bits of season 1 brought to you by high end digital matte VFX people Blue Bolt.

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Some digi-cameras simulate the tilt-shift effect. This one has a dedicated tilt-shift lens built in, rendering real life images (and videos) as miniature dioramas. Even with a modest 5 megapixel resolution the results (above) are pretty impressive.

We love the tilt-shift, we do.

The camera costs $149 from Photojojo.

Avatar Portrait by web developer Kent Brewster lets you enter your Twitter nickname and have the HTML5 Canvas script extrapolate your tiny avatar into an impressionistic style portrait.

Yes, the Broadsheet one is crap, isn’t it?

Get your impressionistic render on here.

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Youtuber maumau1968 (from Solway on the Scottish coast) sez:

 Over a 4 night period I saw the same seagull sitting on the roof of next door neighbour devouring bat after bat that flew from inside the roof. My uncle and I have never seen anything like this before.

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