Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-13 Thread Jeff Reynolds 

Colin,

yes the idea has been around for a long time and done quite a bit in  
all sorts of ways.
The eames version was commissioned by IBM as part of a traveling  
exhibit at the time and based on the 1957 book by Kees Boeke.


yours is a very nice interactive, and i think i may have played with  
it in the past sometime, it tickled some neurons!


The Eames actually did quite a few short films and designed things  
other than chairs, they are just remembered for that the most! they  
did several exhibits for IBM in the 60s and 70s on math and science  
that were really top top notch. also sometime check out tocatta for  
toy trains -- quite fun!


cheers

jeff



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On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote:

The eames version was the grand daddy and still holds up decades  
later



One bit of trivia, the powers of ten idea was sent to the Natural  
History Museum on the 1920s, and the one I did was based on that  
original suggestion. I'm not sure if Eames thought of it himself  
too, while building chairs, but he may have also known about the  
1920s letter.



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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-13 Thread Colin Holgate 

On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote:

> The eames version was the grand daddy and still holds up decades later


One bit of trivia, the powers of ten idea was sent to the Natural History 
Museum on the 1920s, and the one I did was based on that original suggestion. 
I'm not sure if Eames thought of it himself too, while building chairs, but he 
may have also known about the 1920s letter.



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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-13 Thread Jeff Reynolds 

The eames version was the grand daddy and still holds up decades later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

shows the true genius of the eames that their work is just as solid  
and gorgeous today as it was when it came out. they still amaze me.


cheers

jeff


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Completely off any topic, but it's Sunday, so...



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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Terry Judd 

On 13/12/10 12:14 PM, "Colin Holgate"  wrote:

> The kiosks were done using Director 7, and the animations made mostly with
> After Effects. I made the spiral galaxy using 50,000 sprites in Director, and
> some of the forming of planets were done using Director too.

Wow! Director really was (and still is) great for multimedia style
animations (and for scripting the creation/editing of images) but boy am I
glad we no longer use it here as our main development tool. I recently had
to revisit a project I developed in Director in about 2002 and the
workarounds I had to use at the time to get it to work properly (involving
LDMs) were truly horrible - so much so that I can no longer even understand
them.

Terry...

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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Colin Holgate 

On Dec 12, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Terry Judd wrote:

> Really nice Colin and they don't look at all dated. Are they still in use?

I'm not sure. It's a few years since I was there, and at that time the size 
scales ones were still in use, on four screens in this area:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Rose_center_scales_of_the_universe.jpg

but it never was a very good idea to put LCD touch screens next to massive 
windows. The timeline one was in use on eight screens on the spiral ramp, but 
they had replaced those with still images I think. The formation one was in use 
on three pedestal screens in the lower area. If you look at this picture:

http://image60.webshots.com/160/5/7/23/538350723TbsQKJ_fs.jpg

the mother with the pink sweater is watching her son using one of them. Also, 
the satellite dish you see has the same animation projected onto it. Again, not 
something that works too well with such huge windows, but they look better at 
night.

The kiosks were done using Director 7, and the animations made mostly with 
After Effects. I made the spiral galaxy using 50,000 sprites in Director, and 
some of the forming of planets were done using Director too.



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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Terry Judd 
Really nice Colin and they don't look at all dated. Are they still in use?

Terry...


On 13/12/10 6:58 AM, "Colin Holgate"  wrote:

> 
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
> 
>> Colin,
>> 
>> Links seems to be out of date there (error 404).
> 
> Thanks, I forgot that I was exporting them as MP4:
> 
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/SS.mp4
> 
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/TL.mp4
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> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/FE.mp4
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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Pierre Sahores 
;-)

Einstein's Dream, Unification, String Theory 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4_uFU-fKTM

Ce Qu'Einstein Ne Savait Pas Encore 1/3

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhzi7_ce-qu-einstein-ne-savait-pas-encore_news


Le 12 déc. 2010 à 21:33, Richard Gaskin a écrit :

> And for those who haven't seen it (or those who would enjoy seeing it again), 
> the Eames classic:
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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread stephen barncard 
Absolutely beautiful UI ! WOW.

On 12 December 2010 11:58, Colin Holgate  wrote:

>
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
>
> > Colin,
> >
> > Links seems to be out of date there (error 404).
>
> Thanks, I forgot that I was exporting them as MP4:
>
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/SS.mp4
>
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/TL.mp4
>
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/FE.mp4
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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Richard Gaskin 
And for those who haven't seen it (or those who would enjoy seeing it 
again), the Eames classic:




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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Pierre Sahores 
Amazing, Thanks Colin !

Pierre

Le 12 déc. 2010 à 20:58, Colin Holgate a écrit :

> 
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
> 
>> Colin,
>> 
>> Links seems to be out of date there (error 404).
> 
> Thanks, I forgot that I was exporting them as MP4:
> 
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/SS.mp4
> 
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/TL.mp4
> 
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/FE.mp4
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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Colin Holgate 

On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:

> Colin,
> 
> Links seems to be out of date there (error 404).

Thanks, I forgot that I was exporting them as MP4:

http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/SS.mp4

http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/TL.mp4

http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/FE.mp4



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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Pierre Sahores 
Colin,

Links seems to be out of date there (error 404).

Best regards,

Pierre

Le 12 déc. 2010 à 20:50, Colin Holgate a écrit :

> 
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> 
>> Completely off any topic, but it's Sunday, so...
>> 
>> http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
> 
> Here's something related, a screen recording of a museum kiosk I programmed 
> ten years ago, for the planetarium in NYC:
> 
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/SS.mov
> 
> Here are the other two things I programmed for them:
> 
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/TL.mov
> 
> http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/FE.mov
> 
> The FE one is 46MB, but then it is 4:33 long.
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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Pierre Sahores 
Du guidon à la selle, il reste manifestement de la place... ;-)
> 
Le 12 déc. 2010 à 20:08, Mark Wieder a écrit :

> Completely off any topic, but it's Sunday, so...
> 
> http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
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Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Colin Holgate 

On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Completely off any topic, but it's Sunday, so...
> 
> http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

Here's something related, a screen recording of a museum kiosk I programmed ten 
years ago, for the planetarium in NYC:

http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/SS.mov

Here are the other two things I programmed for them:

http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/TL.mov

http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/planetarium/FE.mov

The FE one is 46MB, but then it is 4:33 long.


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OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Wieder 
Completely off any topic, but it's Sunday, so...

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

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