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Papervision3D 2.0 released
yesterday. Papervision3D is an open source 3D Engine for flash which provides a lightweight, browser friendly platform for rendering 3d content in your browser window. Papervision (some examples of PV3D in use:
1,
2,
3 (this third one might be awhile to load...), however, is only the tip of the iceberg which is a very committed and talented open source flash community.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 5:53 PM on December 5, 2007
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Flash Friday
tutorials. Want to know how to make a pre-loader? A cool image gallery, or sound driven animation? Learn how to do so here with some nice tutorials by Lee Brimelow, or visit his
flash blog.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 4:12 PM on February 2, 2007
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Tired of missing astrological events such as
comets,
eclipses, or
meteor showers? With
Spaceweatherphone's service, when auroras appear over your hometown, your phone will ring. When the space station is about to fly over your back yard, your phone will ring. When planets align ... you get the idea.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 5:30 PM on January 12, 2007
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Prediction markets
trade uncertainty for collective wisdom, and
have been proven to be more accurate than other mechanisms for predicting outcomes such as polls. Many corporate entities (HP, Intel, Google, Yahoo, Siemens, etc.) are said to be using them internally. Several successful prediction markets already exist, such as
Hedgestreet,
NewsFutures, the
Iowa Electronic Markets, Hollywood Stock Exchange, and
Inkling Markets.
A spinoff of DARPA's
Policy Analysis Market, prediction markets might be to markets what open source was to software.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 8:17 AM on December 16, 2006
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12 tone scale? bah!
Harry Partch: American composer, philosopher, publisher, teacher, satirist, instrument builder and designer, sculptor, theorist, experimentalist, adapted violist, conductor, author, retired hobo, seaman, sewer cleaner, vagrant, and graffitist. Until his death, Harry Partch had been doing his own thing for more than half a century. Partch's own thing began with his rejection of the European masters and the traditional bourgeois concert-hall performance.
partch created over 30 intruments to produce the sounds caught by the human ear not reproduced in concert halls. his life story is cool.
his thoughts (pdf) have influenced the path of contemporary experimental music.
one of the best of the bands influenced by him.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 9:20 PM on October 26, 2006
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