Pantheon and Surroundings

Finally making progress on the maps of the Pantheon as well as the other churches of Rome again, after getting the copy of the Nolli Map from the Vatican Archives scanned at 1200dpi (I'll post link to download the full-size high-res Nolli map when I get around to it).   Here's where I'm at:

-g

Salamander Robot

via http://singularityhub.com/2013/03/27/amphibious-salamander-like-robot-swims-in-water-crawls-on-land/

Nike

As a memorial to a nurse, my father and I were commissioned to create a sculpture of an angel.  We based the sculpture on the Nike of Samothrace, which currently is in the Louvre. Instead of marble we used 1/4" sheets of plate steel which we will let rest into an umber-ocher patina.  It is at 1:1 scale.

The initial sketch:

Emerging in the workshop: 

We're excited to see it mounted in the hopsitals garden come spring!

-G & G

Comet and Moon

via http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/pan-starrs-time-lapse/

Three Minute Thesis

As part of my participation in the Three Minute Thesis Competition at uWaterloo, we had to choose a single slide to represent our thesis (and present it in under 3 minutes). I decided to use one of the first plots I did of the GPS data collected from the uWaterloo Pedestrian Traffic Map study that I completed late last year. Curious to see how the event goes down tomorrow.

 -gc

Big Dog with Prehensile Head

Neural Inosculation

for later... “We basically created a computational unit out of two brains,” http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/rodent-mind-meld/