Powers of Ten
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006Made in 1977, this is still a fascinating project about the relative scale of things (I’ve seen the book):
Made in 1977, this is still a fascinating project about the relative scale of things (I’ve seen the book):
Athanasius Kircher was a Jesuit universal genius who, among many other things, wrote the book Musurgia Universalis, which influenced the music of Bach and Beethoven. Particularly interesting to me is the Arca Musurgica described in the book, a kind of automatic, programmable organ that allowed anyone to compose music. It would certainly be intriguing to recreate this on a modern computer.
Here’s an interesting website that concerns itself with LEGO robots, mosaics and diagrams made of Flickr photos and other “krazy” stuff:
http://krazydad.com/blog/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krazydad/sets/140323/