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[via] Watch this beautiful short film by Alex Roman and prepare to be amazed. The entire film is computer generated, but looks so amazingly life-like that one could easily believe it’s celluloid based. I can hardly wait until computer games are this realistic. The modelling, lighting and ray-tracing are sublime. The film is accompanied by a great soundtrack — which is also an Alex Roman creation. I wonder how long this was in the making?
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Apple made the source code of Grand Central Dispatch available under an Apache open source license. One of the new technologies for concurrency added to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Grand Central is Apple’s attempt to help developers deal with the rise of multi-core. The open sourcing of Grand Central comes as something of a surprise, because it is a core technology in Snow Leopard, and could be seen to give Apple a competitive edge in the new world of multi-core… this is an exciting move, particularly for scientific developers. If Grand Central Dispatch does catch on, it could provide a genuine option for code parallelization on and off the Mac.
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The English Russia website recently featured a terrific series of photographs taken in the city of St. Petersburg by the photographer Alexey Petrosian.
St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) is one of those cities on my list of “Places to Visit Before I Shuffle Off the Mortal Coil.” The city was the capital of Russia until 1918, when Lenin removed the capital to Moscow following the Russian Revolution of 1917.
The port city of St. Petersburg is famous for its Palace Square, the Kazan Cathedral, Peter the Great’s Palace, the Winter Palace, the battleship Aurora (famous for her role in the October Revolution) and some of the most exquisite architecture in Europe.
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The epic history of the Blinkenlights project in advance of a whole new Blinkenlights installation in Toronto, Canada - Stereoscope. Learn more about Project Blinkenlights.
Probably the most expensive museum of modern art in the world, at least if you look at the production costs. And like many other architectural masterpieces this one is going to be located in Dubai.
