Continuing the composite timelapse theme are two images from photographer Dan Marker-Moore’s Time Slice series.
Thirty minutes of sunrise over LA taken from 60 photos and half an hour of moonrise taken from 11 photos.
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The windowless passenger cabin of the flight-time-halving Mach 1.8 (1200mph) Spike Aerospace S-512 supersonic business jet has ultra thin LCD displays embedded in the walls – relaying panoramic video from cameras on the plane’s exterior or from an onboard database.
We would select an underwater display, ensuring a restful flight from which we would disembark fully insane.
Plotclock is a robot clock that writes out the time on a little whiteboard with a dry ink marker pen, then erases and updates it.
Developed by 3D modeler Johannes, the Plotclock is driven by an Arduino microcontroller and the whole unit can be 3D printed.
If you’ve ever clicked on one of the app redemption links we sometimes have for iOS apps, you may already encountered the developers of Castro – Vancouver based Pádraig Ó Cinnéide and Oisin Prendiville (who is also also behind My Artist, one of our first app reviews).
Like the best iOS apps of the moment, it fully leverages all the gestures and styling of iOS 7 to give an app that is quick and intuitive to use.
Under its skin it’s a smart little beast, downloading new episodes at optimum times (as all well behaved apps should) so new content is served up as soon as it’s ready.
A slick little package and to be honest, it gets more use from me than its rival Network.
FIGHT!
Castro is available on the App Store at €2.69
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A genuinely groundbreaking development in the art of the Graphics Interchange Format: two white vertical lines added to a video loop which create – mind blown – instant 3D effect.
The solid, dividing strips serve as visual markers for the foreground. Once anything breaks out in font of them, blocking the view of the white dividers, the viewer’s brain immediately translates this as a three-dimensional scene. The best 3D gif creators take note of this effect and tend to choose scenes from movies and clips from videos in which something is initially in the background and makes its way into the foreground, whether it be a person, animal, monster, or projectile object.
Previously: The Gifs That Keep On Giffing and Behind The Gifs
A three piece Japanese band featuring robots called Z-machines has teamed up with composer Squarepusher to create a five track album of songs only playable by the bands 78 fingered guitarist MACH, keyboard player COSMO and 22 armed drummer ASHURA.
Music for Robots, distributed by UK based Warp Records launches on April 8th.
(H/T: Andy Sheridan)
Know someone doing their mocks?
James Whelton (our favourite former teen sensation) and Trinity student James Eggers have come up with a pair of apps to help those sitting the Junior and Leaving Cert this year.
They describe the apps as giving:
Access to all the online Irish junior and leaving certificate papers for all levels, with such mind-blowing features as “full screen paper viewing mode”, landscape support and intelligent exam level remembering features, we built this app for such an incredible experience to aid studying, that if weaponised, aliens would finally visit earth in order to learn this app’s secrets.
No longer will you fear the Léamhthuiscint in Irish Paper 2 when viewed through this app. This is the perfect companion to the fast paced, exotic, glamorous and thrilling adventure that is the Junior Cert….
Unfortunately, there are no answers but there’s another app for that.
Junior Cert Papers and Leaving Cert Papers are available on the App Store for €1.79 each.
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Mile Mapper is Queen’s University Belfast student Stephen Laide’s first app, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the quality.
The premise is simple – it will suggest a random route of your chosen distance (up to 10 miles) to and from your current location.
As you’re running (or in my case, walking) it’ll do all the usual fitness tracking things of pace and calories burned.
It gives a nice bit of variety to your routine as well as helping you explore the area around you. The routes can be stored, so you can go back a particularly good one.
Stephen had previously studied architecture and was able to bring that design experience to the app by making his own custom UI rather than rely on the stock iOS elements. One complaint I’d have though is that some of the sliders are a bit finicky to use.
There is a limitation in that only 5 routes can be generated a day (this is because of limits on the free Google service used to generate them). Still, I found it enough to get a reasonable route each day.
Mile Mapper is available for free on the App Store.
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