Nicholas Baldas

[Nicholas Baldas @NicholasBaldas]

Volumetric capture Virtual Reality project 'Loverboy'. Winner 'Best Technology' @Cinequest 2023 #VirtualReality #depthkit #technology

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This is what the hieroglyphs and figures inside ancient Egyptian temples looked like when their original colors were still vivid.

This is a modern reconstruction of the Temple of Dendur’s original colors, projected onto the monument with light at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The Met’s experimental “Color the Temple” project digitally restored one of the temple’s carved scenes to show how richly decorated ancient Egyptian temples may have looked. Researchers studied historical records, comparable temples, and surviving ancient objects with traces of pigment before selecting shades of red, yellow, blue, green, black, and white. The colors were then carefully mapped onto the carvings without altering the stone itself.

The illuminated scene shows the Roman emperor Augustus dressed and posed as an Egyptian pharaoh, presenting offerings to Egyptian deities. Although Rome controlled Egypt when the temple was built, its rulers adopted traditional Egyptian imagery to portray themselves as legitimate pharaohs.

The Temple of Dendur was built in Nubia around the first century BCE and was dedicated primarily to the goddess Isis and the deified brothers Pedesi and Pihor. Much of its original pigment was lost after the temple’s location was repeatedly flooded during the 20th century.

Egypt later gave the temple to the United States in recognition of American assistance in saving ancient monuments threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. The temple was dismantled, transported to New York, and opened to the public at the Met in 1978.

[Muse @xmuse_]

Turn the sound ON 🔊

Abraham Cupeiro on the aulos.

The aulos is the double-piped reed instrument from ancient Greece & Rome.

He blows both pipes at the same time, filling the Mosteiro de Sobrado dos Monxes with that mythic sound.

https://t.co/ijluSNkbOs

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Jingdezhen shows what happens when a civilization takes one craft seriously for centuries.

For more than 1,700 years, this city shaped porcelain so fine that it crossed courts, oceans, dining rooms, and trade routes.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, its kilns served imperial taste and exported huge amounts of porcelain to Europe.

A cup was never just a cup.

It carried China’s technical skill and visual taste across the world.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

A Pulsar spins 716 times a second, at 24% the speed of light, a teaspoon of it outweighs the Mount Everest and this is its real sound, captured by NASA

[Ælþemplær @Aelthemplaer]

The crazy thing is, instruments like this existed in ancient times. I'm convinced if you visited ancient Rome, forms of what we consider to be techno, house, and electronica would exist.

[Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP) @SocraticScribe]

The Trautonium is one of the earliest electronic musical instruments, invented in 1929 by German engineer Friedrich Trautwein. It’s famous for producing eerie, expressive sounds that later influenced electronic music and film sound design. Cymatics match the sound.

[The Astronomy Guy @astrooalert]

⚡️ This is what pilots sometimes see above thunderstorms.

They’re called Red Sprites — massive electrical discharges that appear 30–50 miles above storms near the edge of space.

They last only milliseconds… which is why capturing them on camera is extremely rare. Nature still has secrets above the clouds.

[CONTEXT VIDEOS @Context2X]

Scientists hooked up sensors to a mushroom’s bio-electric signals and turned its natural fluctuations into music 🎶🍄

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

The observer effect in quantum physics is the phenomenon where the act of measurement or observation alters the state of a quantum system, causing it to behave differently than it would if unobserved. This interaction often collapses a particle's wave-like potentiality into a definite, measurable state, challenging classical notions of objective reality.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Vangelis’ Blade Runner (1982) score feels like neon dreaming. Synths that mourn the future before it even arrives, melodies that make rain feel lonely. It is the sound of sci-fi becoming poetry.

[Angry Tom @AngryTomtweets]

no words

[Crowconut @muskhudlivechat]

Glorious

[typepunchmatrix @typepunchmatrix]

So we heard you like peep shows 👀 This gorgeous glimpse into Les Jardin des Tuileries in the 1830s is a vibrant example of a peepshow book – an accordion-shaped book that creates a sense of depth.

[Science Channel @ScienceChannel]

I'm looking through you, where did you go? 🐸

Glass Frogs are transparent, leaving their internal organs visible. The frog’s liver and intestine are covered in a white pigment, its gall bladder is yellow, and its heart is transparent.

#WildlifeWednesday

[Dagnum² @Dagnum_PI]

Visualisation of π being irrational

[Cosmic Gaia @CosmicGaiaX]

Emerald coast 💎🌊

[Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP) @SocraticScribe]

A colorless beam of light, pure at birth, passes through life’s prism, splitting into countless hues of experience, emotion, and pressure that shape who we become.

“You run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking… racing around to come up behind you again.”

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Nicolas Escurat captured videos of red sprites, which are massive electrical discharges that happen way above thunderstorm clouds.

[Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP) @SocraticScribe]

2^27 particles dropped in an ellipse

[Interesting World @_fluxfeeds]

A mushroom producing music through its bioelectric signals 🍄🎶

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