Imprimante 3D accessible

All3DP a élu l'ELEGOO MARS meilleure imprimante 3D résine.

Découvrez pourquoi, dans son évaluation (tests d'impression inclus)

Voir son article: L'Elegoo mars,  imprimante 3d:  test - avis - évaluation

Are you really virtual?

A Style-Based Generator Architecture 

for Generative Adversarial Networks

By selecting the strength appropriately, we can get good images out every time with slightly reduced variation.

Paper (PDF):arxiv.org/pdf/1812.04948.pdf


Authors:
Tero Karras (NVIDIA)
Samuli Laine (NVIDIA)
Timo Aila (NVIDIA)


Abstract:"We propose an alternative generator architecture for generative adversarial networks, borrowing from style transfer literature. The new architecture leads to an automatically learned, unsupervised separation of high-level attributes (e.g., pose and identity when trained on human faces) and stochastic variation in the generated images (e.g., freckles, hair), and it enables intuitive, scale-specific control of the synthesis. The new generator improves the state-of-the-art in terms of traditional distribution quality metrics, leads to demonstrably better interpolation properties, and also better disentangles the latent factors of variation. To quantify interpolation quality and disentanglement, we propose two new, automated methods that are applicable to any generator architecture. Finally, we introduce a new, highly varied and high-quality dataset of human faces."


via dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6507449/Creepy-AI-create-100-cent-lifelike-human-faces-scratch.html

A wee bit of ontology

There are those « spot the difference » games, where players, comparing two quite similar images, must notice small variations between them.

What we see here is quite the opposite : the context, the scene, are similar, the obvious difference stands in the rendering, when the first one is a cartoonesque image, and the new one « realistic ».

One could be fooled, thinking it is a photograph when describing a landscape, yet quite puzzled when showing characters, in that case, animals.

Augmented reality, hyper-realism, digital special effects have started to deceive us, although we know, being told so, that it is artificial.

Now, what will happen when technology will be so perfect that it will be impossible to perceive the artifice ?

There enters ontology which allows discerning real from reality.

While robots are elaborated to be closer to life, real people of the public scene, are surgically « improved » tending to some sort of plastic perfection.

All in all, mutatis mutandis for the oxbridgians, we are caught in a salsa of enhanced reality which differs from the real.

With much less effort than landing on Mars, we can conflate a collusion between technologies ending up in a representation of an idealistic imaging of a supposed reality, such as robotic surgery coupled with a 3D sort of Photoshop that will produce neo-canons of supposedly perfect people, incorporated (in the Latin sense) in a perfect environment.

Already, cinemas have become eateries where, secondarily, a film featuring fantasy worlds, is incidentally projected to intensify feeding, just like Beethoven is cast in stables.

George Orwell forecasted a world where saturation was the mod and it becomes hard to thing he was wrong.

The higher we climb...


Texte by Addé

Photos via boredpanda.com

Robot Bat doesn't suck (blood)

What is Bat Bot and Why Use it?

"In robotics, the bat is a challenging design because of all of the joints of this creature it is made to mimic. The flying mammal has been mimicked unlike ever before with Bat Bot, the world’s first bat robot. It has the appearance of a bat and acts like one too. But why does it exist – for what purpose?..."

 article by Christy Birmingham

whenbusinessinspire.com

Advanced Robotic Bat Can Fly Like the Real Thing

 

phys.org

A Miryad of Drones

EHang Egret’s 1374 drones dancing over the City Wall of Xi’an, achieving a Guinness World Records title.      

 

A new technology in 3D printing

3D printing is yesterday's news. 

Westworld-style liquid printing is the future

wired:

Anatomics Delivers First 3D Printed Sternum Implant in America

Anatomics manufactures patient specific cranial, facial, chest wall and other skeletal and soft tissue implants and surgical tools for reconstructive surgeons in Australia and around the world.

Anatomics Delivers First 3D Sternum Implant in America

Space Station's 3D Printer Makes Wrench From 'Beamed Up' Design

"International Space Station Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore shows off a ratchet wrench made with a 3D printer aboard the orbiting lab. The wrench and other parts will return to Earth for comparison with ground samples in early 2015. (Image credit: NASA)"

Space Station's 3D Printer Makes Wrench From 'Beamed Up' Design

Blooming habitats

Ten FOLD Tree House
tenfoldengineering.com

A glimpse at modernity

This device associates two of probably most important life changing (no pun intended) novations in the near future: 3D sophisticated printing, and the right for any person to decide when to end up their life.

3D printed bicycle bridge

3D Printing bicycle Bridge

A cyclist crosses the 3D printed concrete bike bridge in Gemert

I want to ride my bicycle (on a 3D printed bridge)

photo video BAM 3Dbrug Gemert

photo video BAM 3Dbrug Gemert

photo video BAM 3Dbrug Gemert

BAM 3Dbrug Gemert

Medication Vs meditation

Robot - Tai Qi - Kung Fu

via article Meet the robot that knows KUNG FU  dailymail.co.uk

3D Printing Ooznest 0X

Ooznest is the brainchild of Cambridge University engineering graduate Ryan Lock. 
First stumbling across 3D Printing during his studies, he just had to get involved. 
Buying his first 3D Printer then building his own, he knew this was going to be something big. 

Ryan started Ooznest during his final year of studies, 4 years ago, and wanted to do his bit in helping bring 3D printers to the masses. 
Running Ooznest from home, and studying away at the same time stretched him to the limit, but upon leaving university it has now become a full time venture. 

Originally focusing on 3D Printing, Ooznest has expanded in to new markets , now one of their biggest areas is the CNC Router sector. 
Ooznest has made a name for providing excellent personal customer service and products. Their kits have gained many positive reviews, the success of their OX CNC Kit has lead them to design their own CNC Router, The WorkBee, which they hope will be even popular within the CNC Community.


Examples Objets:

The WorkBee is now available to purchase, more information can be found at: ooznest.co.uk/WorkBee

a dsl colection exhibition curated by Martina Koppel yang

A virtual exhibition of some of the most important installations and videos of the dsl collection is curated by Martina Koppel Yang.

A San Franciso-based company managed to build a 3D printed house in just 24 hours

A San Franciso-based company managed to build a 3D printed house in just 24 hours

apis-cor.com/en

After being entombed in ash for more than 1,900 years, the victims of the devastating eruption in Pompeii are being brought to life using modern-day imaging technology

 "Restorers are working on 86 preserved plaster casts of Romans who died when Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79AD
Each of the victims have been entombed in ash and now plaster for more than 1,900 years
Experts have spent the summer scanning these bodies using CT scanners at the Pompeii Archaeological Site
They have now released"  capitalbay.news

New robot flies just like a bat

more: sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/watch-new-robot-fly-just-bat

3D printing a violin

I 3D printed a violin!

READY TO CRAWL Hiroshi Sugihara

Designer: Hiroshi Sugihara
Project director: Shunji Yamanaka
Based on the researchof: SatoshinTanigawa
Based on the AM structure research of Keisuke Tanigawa

yet, virtually fascinating...

delusion, deception, disappointment...