The source of a number of clips here on the sift. This is the whole talk.

posted by MaxWilder 1 decade 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 3,443 views

The OmniTread robot was built by engineering students at the University of Michigan. Its body consists of seven segments connected by pneumatic bellows. Treads on all four sides of the segments give it... continue reading

posted by Paul Richey (Fusionaut) 1 decade 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 955 views

"A chat with Animation Supervisor Richard Baneham about working on Avatar." From http://digg.com/movies/A_Look_At_The_Animation_Techniques_of_Avatar_Video ...

posted by ant 1 decade 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 2,511 views

"DirectX 11 Techdemo Radeon HD 5800 - Ladybug: Depth of Field is all about directing the audiences attention to a certain portion of the scene. Done with DirectX 11's Shared Memory and atomic memory operations.... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 2,009 views

You may have seen water droplets in slow motion before, but I would guess you have never seen this!

posted by Ornthoron 1 decade 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 12,220 views

Skynet looms closer every day

posted by sometimes 1 decade 4 years 7 months ago • 1,773 views

From YT: Solo bassist, sound artist Jeff Schmidt tests the new Melodyne Editor Beta with Direct Note Access on one of his most complex solo compositions. He uses a regular Macbook Pro, so no ridiculously... continue reading

posted by demon_ix 1 decade 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,802 views

pretty informative short on robert rodriguez and quentin tarantino's "long take" using behind the scenes footage for the movie sin city.has a ton of out-takes.

posted by enoch 1 decade 4 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 2,308 views

What sound is this man making? Most people will describe it as "da-da" or "la-la" or even "ga-ga". Now play the video, but don't look at him. For most people, he'll now clearly be saying "ba-ba".

Just give it some skin and call it Arnold to complete the experience.

posted by demon_ix 1 decade 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,550 views

A dramatic and shocking demonstration of how your brain gets fooled to see something that is not there because of your biases, prejudices and expectations.

posted by Paul Richey (Fusionaut) 1 decade 4 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,310 views

From OP http://www.CS5.org - PatchMatch: A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing quickly finding approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches.

posted by Sketch 1 decade 4 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 8,666 views

I experienced this storm! It was awesome, tons of lightning. A theater of lights in the sky! Check it out.

posted by EndAll 1 decade 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,815 views

The Travelling Salesman problem is stated as: "Given a number of cities and the costs of travelling from any city to any other city, what is the least-cost round-trip route that visits each city exactly once?" ... continue reading

posted by oxdottir 1 decade 6 years 3 months ago • 3,549 views

"On April 29, 2006, comedian Stephen Colbert appeared as the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which was held in Washington, D.C., at the Hilton hotel. Colbert's... continue reading

posted by PostMortem 1 decade 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 9,555 views • 25:42

YT: "Algodoo is a 2D physics simulation environment for creating interactive scenes in a playful, cartoony manner."

posted by campionidelmondo 1 decade 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 3,186 views

Some of these are pretty cool.

posted by Tymbrwulf 1 decade 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,833 views