Happy Island Updates

A personal blog that chronicles various aspects of what Studio Artist creator John Dalton is up to. The Studio Artist User Forum is at studioartist.ning.com The main Synthetik Software site is www.synthetik.com More WMF at www.myspace.com/wmfrocks and wmfrocks.bandcamp.com

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Nov 8

“A start-up company from the Seattle area won $900,000 on Friday in a NASA contest to build a miniature prototype of a machine that could one day climb from Earth to outer space. The idea of a space elevator — passengers and cargo traveling up and down a 60,000-mile cable — has long been a fixture of science fiction, notably in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The Fountains of Paradise.” Winner in Contest Involving Space Elevator - NYTimes.com

“Dr. Ozcan’s devices are compact in part because they have eliminated the central element in a microscope — its lenses — said David J. Brady, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University and director of its Imaging and Spectroscopy Program. “There’s no need for lenses in these devices because the magnification can be done electronically,” he said. “You don’t need optics at all.” For this electronic system of magnification, inexpensive light-emitting diodes added to the basic cellphone shine their light on a sample slide placed over the phone’s camera chip. Some of the light waves hit the cells suspended in the sample, scattering off the cells and interfering with the other light waves. “When the waves interfere,” Dr. Brady said, “they create a pattern called a hologram.” The detector in the camera records that hologram or interference pattern as a series of pixels.” Novelties - How an Engineer Turned a Cellphone Into a Microscope - NYTimes.com

MSG Chamfer Fun

Working on some new MSG source processing effects. A new halftoning algorithm in this particular case based on MSG chamfer processing in Studio Artist 4.

Nov 7

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Most Abstract Festival in the World

Thought people might be interested in this so i’m passing the information along.

The second edition of Punto y Raya (Dot & Line), which has earned the title of “most abstract festival in the…

Visual Focus

The interesting twist in this Studio Artist rendition is that the detail drawing for the facial features was all done automatically with no manual intervention or manual selection. From a…

Nov 6

nice nasa satellite shot of hawaii

“The goal here is to make this so cheap that sequencing a person’s genome could be routine. A big step in that direction may have been taken by a company called Complete Genomics, which describes the methods it used to sequence three human genomes in a paper that will be released by Science today. The system described in the paper combines some clever variants of well known molecular biology techniques to read massive amounts of DNA fragments that are, in total, about 65 bases long. But, because the materials used for the reactions are so common, even the enzymes can be purchased cheaply. That allows Complete Genomics to bring an entire human genome in while spending less than $5,000 on materials. All that, plus an error rate of less than one base in 100,000. For comparison, the completion of Jim Watson’s genome, done just a few years ago, is estimated to have cost $20 million.” Complete Genomics produces a cheap—well, $5,000—human genome - Ars Technica

new oceanfront property available for sale…

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