Tag: Software
After reading a recent Businessweek article about how much New Yorkers tip cabbies, Ben Wellington at I Quant NY (IQNY) noticed something weird about the numbers. With some research and analysis, he discovered that half of New York’s cabs calculate tipping differently. That difference generates an extra $5.3 million a year in tips. Businessweek used publicly […]
In Mrs. Escher’s Nightmare, a hand appears to draw 3D-objects… as they move! Escher’s paintings were famous for mind-bending, physics-defying imagery. This demonstration of concept software makes it look like something that should exist, and be user-friendly. Watch black and white geometric shapes come into being, float off into space, become an eagle and flap its eagle wings, […]
I think I said some variant of “Wow!” or “Holy shit!” to myself about five times over the course of the above six-minute video. In it, software called 3-Sweep, developed by researchers from Tel Aviv University creates fully modifiable 3D-models of the objects in regular photographs. If that doesn’t sound impressive enough to warrant my […]
