Category Archives: Technology

The Michelangelo of Microsoft Excel

When Tatsuo Horiuchi retired, he decided to try his hand at art. But instead of spending money on paints and brushes, Horiuchi used what he already had pre-installed on his computer—Microsoft Excel. Now, the 77-year-old artist is creating remarkably intricate … Continue reading

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Creativity and Technology Combined

Human creativity represents an enigma to the research community: it is all but impossible to describe the process in unequivocal terms, yet there is a strong desire to promote and encourage this uniquely human activity. Within the realm of human-computer … Continue reading

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Future Crisis: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Five

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Voodoo Bloom: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Four

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Polygon Realm: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Three

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Sprite Supreme: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Two

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Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics, Part One

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The Wormhole Actualization Machine

What’s it like to get sucked into a black hole and travel at hypersonic speeds through a wormhole? Alan Watts built this Arduino-based psychedelic spacetime visualizer to find out. See how it was built and read more…

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Juana Knits the Planet – The World’s Smallest Comic

The technique we used is focused ion beam (FIB) etching. A very sharp and high-speed jet of matter is produced and directed towards the hair to etch it – similar to a fine laser beam. Original microscope pictures: https://github.com/ehsm/documents/tree/master/comic

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Mobile phone orchestra TV advertisement

I’ve seen several artists create “mobile phone orchestras” but I appreciate the multigenerational representation in this example made for SK Telecom, the South Korean wireless operator.

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