house cat scares off bear
“That is the stupidest looking dog I’ve ever seen. I’m going to kick its ass.”










City Layouts Luis Dilger
Topography, architecture and traffic routes give every city a unique structure.
These conditions create the typical and individual inner structure of a city. I didn’t only want to show these structures in the conventional way from above, but also including the exact three-dimensionality of topography and buildings - a real world visualisation. The OpenStreetMap data enabled me to visualize the satellite-based information using DEM Earth in Cinema 4D. The results are some extraordinary views of large capitals and small towns.


this is the second time ive seen them in a dress. What kinda show was this??

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Monocular SLAM Supported Object Recognition
Research from CSAIL at MIT have produced a computer vision method of accurate object recognition using a normal camera, a method which could assist future robotics:
John Leonard’s group at CSAIL specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous
localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile autonomous robots
map their environments and determine their locations.
Last week, at the Robotics Science and Systems conference, members of
Leonard’s group presented a new paper demonstrating how SLAM can be
used to improve object-recognition systems, which will be a vital
component of future robots that have to manipulate the objects around
them in arbitrary ways.
The system uses SLAM information to augment existing
object-recognition algorithms. Its performance should thus continue to
improve as computer-vision researchers develop better recognition
software, and roboticists develop better SLAM software.
More at CSAIL here, or the project page here

Crystallization
Crystallization (natural or artificial)
is the process of formation of solid crystals precipitating from a solution, melt or more rarely deposited directly from a gas. Crystallization is also a chemical solid–liquid separation technique, in which mass transfer of a solute from the liquid solution to a pure solid crystalline phase occurs. Crystallization is therefore an aspect of precipitation, obtained through a variation of the solubility conditions of the solute in the solvent, as compared to precipitation due to chemical reaction.
~Giffed by: rudescience From: This video
They’re probably so angry