Try as I might, I can’t conceive of a reason I need this thing, but it still looks so cool:
[YouTube]
“Drone Dome” blasts drones with lasers
As my sons would likely say (generally after dropping some sick joke on me), “You got ROASTED!” 🚁🔥
According to Popular Mechanics, the Drone Dome system “can detect objects as small as 0.002 square meters at 3.5 kilometers (2.1 miles).”
Google releases AutoFlip, an open-source framework for intelligent video reframing
I’m pleased to say researchers have built on my team’s open-source MediaPipe framework to create AutoFlip, helping make video look good across a range of screens.
Taking a video (casually shot or professionally edited) and a target dimension (landscape, square, portrait, etc.) as inputs, AutoFlip analyzes the video content, develops optimal tracking and cropping strategies, and produces an output video with the same duration in the desired aspect ratio.
Check out the team’s post for more details. I don’t know how the results compare to Adobe’s Auto Reframe tech, but hopefully this release will help more people collaborate in delivering great tools.
“It’s got a macro beat, and I can BUG OUT to it”
And I think to myself
What a Giger-ian world… 🎶
Thomas Blanchard used an 8K RED Helium camera & various macro lenses to take us up close (way close) to our future insect overlords:
[Via]
Lego “Paint” goes Mondrian
Jon Rolph treats us to some stop-motion cleverness:
[YouTube] [Via Alex Powell]
Samsung promises 30x-100x zoom, 100+ megapixels, on a damn telephone
The charming story of “Red Monster”
I’m a longtime superfan of (now longtime!) Adobe designer Dave Werner. Just as the one good thing to come of my first two futile years at Adobe was meeting my wife, the clear good that came from my final project was hiring Dave. Our project mostly crashed & burned, but Dave hung in there & smartly made his way onto Character Animator. Here he provides a delightful inside look at how the app’s little red mascot came to be.
[YouTube]
Gorgeous “Mini Planets” made from paint & soap
Rather glorious work from Thomas Blanchard:
PetaPixel notes,
To achieve this level of detail he shot the whole thing in 8K on a $25,000 RED Helium camera using a Canon 100mm f/2.8L Macro and a Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5X Macro, and then edited the final product down to 4K resolution.
[Vimeo]
Tilt Brush rocks the runway
The LA Times is showcasing the best Oscar dresses from the past five decades in augmented reality, commissioning artists to draw them in 3D via Google’s Tilt Brush app. You can try out the interactive experience in their app or just get a taste here:
[YouTube]
