Full tour of Legoland Florida
... I saw A Clutch Powers 4-D Adventure. It was great. The 3D was used well and it rained and snowed in the theater. ...
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World’s first fully functional LEGO greenhouse: Even the dirt is made of LEGO bricks
The LEGO Greenhouse is part of the 2011 London Design Festival, an annual event that celebrates and promotes London’s creative industries. This is said to be the first functional greenhouse made entire of LEGO. LEGO UK commissioned designer Sebastian Bergne to build the greenhouse out of 100,000 LEGO bricks, using differently colored bricks depending on their placement. Every piece of the structure, including the roof and “dirt”, are built out of either translucent or brown LEGO pieces. The transparent pieces allow it to work like a conventional greenhouse.
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Avatar’s James Cameron Talks about the 3D Hype Cycle
This week, in a keynote interview at a summit organised by the Hollywood magazine Variety, movie director James Cameron discussed the Gartner Hype Cycle. Below is a photo, kindly shared with us by Philip Leylveld, who created some of the slides used in the stage debate about 3D technology in the movies.
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New Zealand Post launches first 3D stamp for Rugby World Cup
New Zealand Post is about to release its first three dimensional stamp.
Like so many other companies, it's cashing in on all the hype surrounding the Rugby World Cup. ...
“It's a special cup and it's a special event and we wanted to reflect that with a special stamp. The stamps cost $15 each and were created in Auckland,” says Simon Allison, sales and marketing manager for New Zealand Post.
The illusion of depth comes from photographs of the real trophy being taken from every angle then spliced together. ...
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A different 3D – Malta concert
On Saturday 10 September the folk ensemble Nafra and the Big Band Brothers will join forces for the main act of the 3D event in Gozo. Maltese traditional instruments will collide with big band swing for an innovative display of folk roots fusion.
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Another World Under the Microscope
... Dr. Gary Greenberg of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy ...[combines] science and art into one, Greenberg unveils never-seen microscopic views of objects like grains of sand, flowers, and food. ...
The magnification limit of my microscopes is about 1,500 times actual size; however, most of my images of sand, flowers, and food range from 100 times to 300 times. However, when I investigate cells from the body, such are brains cells or cells of the immune system, then I use magnifications of 400 times to 1,000 times. ...
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