Friday, July 7, 2023
Good morning and a belated happy birthday to my sister. We've got an action-packed issue today, featuring all the usual subjects (space and other stuff). Let's go.
Item 1: a link
Today's link is a video wherein a person uses a free open source software suite to, well, it's more fun if you just see for yourself:
If it's not clear from the video itself (which you should really watch), this Canadian person made a 3-d rendered video about using 3d rendering software to simulate (emulate?) (build?) a 3-d rendered physical camera to take 3-d rendered photographs of 3-d rendered scenes. I confess at a certain point I stopped really understanding what was going on and just basked in the sheer audacity of the project. This brought me back to a wonderful afternoon I spent trying to understand Bartosz Ciechanowski's epic blog post about lenses and cameras.
(YouTube link via John Siracusa.)
Item 2: a list
Regular polygons, ranked
- Triangle
- Pentagon
- Square
- Heptagon
- Octagon
- Hexagon
- Other
- Nonagon
Item 3: a media recommendation
I also recommend the film Lawrence of Arabia, which I watched a few weeks ago. It's a huge Dune rip-off with Obi-Wan Kenobi in brownface, but it has its moments.
Item 4: word of the week
Friable
"Doctor, is the spinal cord usually so... friable?"
"No. That's really bad."
Item 5: a photograph
See ya!
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