Geoff Manaugh
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Perfectly Age Your Face Through 80 Years Based On A Single Photograph
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new technique for simulating the ageing of faces over nearly eight decades — and it’s incredible. Using what they call “illumination-aware age progression”, the method requires only one initial photograph as it “automatically produces a series of age-progressed outputs between 1 and 80 years of age,…
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The Gorgeous Tics And Errors Of Laser Scanning Gone Wrong
Matthew Shaw and William Trossell, the London-based duo known as ScanLAB Projects, continue to push the envelope of laser-scanning technology, producing visually stunning and conceptually intricate work that falls somewhere between art and practical surveying.
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Depth Maps Hidden In Google Street View Create Flickering Ghost-Cities
This is awesome: Patricio Gonzalez Vivo found a way to scrape Google Street View for its depth map data, then rebuilt the streets as ghostly spatial models in openFrameworks. The weird and flickering results, seen in the video above, are like a holograph dreaming of electric streets, with facades and sidewalks tuning in and out…
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The Earth Was Almost Fried Back In 2012
A massive solar storm in July 2012 was more intense than thought — and it blasted right through the Earth’s orbit. Luckily for us, we were on the other side of the sun, thus missing the chaos completely. But if that storm had hit this beautiful little blue marble in space? “The solar bursts would…