Katherine in Thought
Photo by Nad Iksodas sold at Obsession Art
New watermark system scours the net for infringement, notifies owners
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070227-8937.html From the page: “According a patent filing at the US Patent and Trademark Office, Digimarc’s “Method for monitoring internet dissemination of image, video and/or audio files” is a monitoring service that scans the Internet, consuming content as it goes. The system downloads audio, video and images, and then scans them for watermarks. If it finds a watermark it recognizes,
Gizmodo – Boycott the RIAA
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/riaa-boycott-kicking-things-off-240773.php Gizmodo has declared the month of March, Boycott the RIAA month.
More Artsy Vids
Imagining the 10th Dimension Thanks to StumbleUpon user, trench55 for suggesting this one:
ImageJ
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/index.html ImageJ is open source imaging software that has oodles and oodles of plugins. Watch out Irfan View, this might become my favorite free image editor.
Medieval Islamic Tile-Makers Were Master Mathematicians
Link no longer available. Historians have long assumed that sheer hard work with the equivalent of a ruler and compass allowed medieval craftsmen to create the ornate star-and-polygon tile patterns that cover mosques, shrines and other buildings that stretch from Turkey through Iran and on to India. Now a Harvard University researcher argues that more than 500 years ago, math
Beetle by Vrbanus
http://vrbanus.com/beetle.htm
Visprint
Visprint From the site: “Visprint makes cool fractal fingerprint PNG images based on the contents of any file. The image will be different for almost every file with even slightly different contents. Visprint uses the IFS fractal generation process pioneered by Michael Barnsley. It is a way to create images that are self-similar to infinite depths. In other words, the