Rainbow from Ireland

Blender to WebGL

I just found out about Blend4Web, a great addon for Blender that lets you convert Blender scenes to embeddable WebGL relatively easy. Here is demo of a simple model I made for a previous project. You can rotate, pan, and zoom with mouse controls around the interactive model below:

Here is a more impressive example from a somewhat more complex project I did, big file (24MB)

As you can see from the online demos it's capable of much more impressive scenes and even interactive apps.

KUNG FURY

One of the best half hours in recent movie history :).

A movie made possible by Kickstarter. You really want to see how the wolf riding was done.

Holy fuck, this is terrifying

Complete car hacking and takeover is entirely possible now, even without ever having physical access to the car. You would think the manufacturers could have seen this coming and done something about security before it got to this point.

Full article here.

Makes the conspiracy theory about the journalist Michael Hastings being killed by remote car hack more plausible.

Extreme blobbing

Much crazier and higher but non-embeddable link. Gif version:

Global electricity network

Europe,

The Netherlands, wind turbines as red dots,

Interactive map, http://www.itoworld.com/map/

web.archive.org/web/2010/August/rainbowboys.org

First close-up of Pluto

More to come...