Specular holograms by Matthew Brand currently on display at the new Museum of Mathematics in New York.
See his site for more.
The technique used by Brand to create these pieces is not one of conventional holography. He meticulously controls the unique shape of thousands of tiny optical pieces placed on a surface creating a 3D effect when the light source or viewer moves. This is essentially a mathematical problem in differential geometry and combinatorial optimization. Brand was the first person to correctly describe this technique in 2008 even though it dates back as early as the 1930s (check out his paper for details).
Slick Video Game Controller Cufflinks
We’ve seen our fair share of geeky cufflinks, but these rank among some of the best. Each pair features the D-Pads and buttons from consoles such as the NES, Super NES, Sega genesis, PlayStation, and Xbox 360.
Available on Etsy from Bazinga Jewellery fro just $20.
Art + Science = Awesome
These are miniature paintings created in petri dishes and they’re part of a year-long project by San Francisco-based artist Klari Reis entitled Daily Dish 2013.
“Every single day in 2013 San Francisco-based artist Klari Reis is creating an abstract painting inside the confines of the humble petri dish, a cylindrical container used by biologists to culture the growth of cells and algae, something the paintings seem to directly resemble.”
Some of the pieces look like fantastic planets or galaxies. They’re each so beautiful and different from each other and it’s only the beginning of March, so we’ve still got nearly 9 months of daily petri dish paintings to enjoy.
[via Colossal]
Soooo pretty…
