Gregg Favalora

Tweets on 3D display, HW startups, visual arts, drums. 30+ yrs exp. in 3D displays. Headshot: Creative Images Boston.

[EDOUARD @edouard]

Ellsworth Kelly. Seine, 1951.
This procedural, randomness-based artwork is one of the earliest precursors to generative art.

[MATLAB @MATLAB]

Ever wish you could focus on just the interesting parts of your 2D plots?

Caleb Thomas, a talented member of the MATLAB user community, has made it possible with his open-source Zoomed Axes contribution.

Check it out 👉 https://t.co/k8gy1bjaKg

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

Marble Madness (Atari Games, 1984), designed by Mark Cerny, puts you in control of... a marble! For those old enough to remember this gem, its only flaw was its shortness (only 6 levels), and I wonder why they didn't just make more levels. Surely, the core programming was the heavy lifting, adding a few more levels (the easier part) would have given this game a much longer lifetime.

What stands out are brilliant isometric graphics, an iconic soundtrack, and an interesting concept: guiding a marble through a maze with traps and obstacles. I remember real-life versions; a wooden box covered by plexiglass containing a maze-like structure, where you guide a metal ball from one end to the other by tilting the box.

Marble Madness belongs in that rare category of early '80s games that truly stood out. You can't put it with Paradroid, Elite or The Sentinel, but it left its mark. Close your eyes and listen to the first 10-15 seconds of the soundtrack for the ultimate time travel experience.

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system: https://t.co/Tb3HpwZG9J

More on the study led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of @TohokuUniPR⤵️

[𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙠 @blankspac_e]

Nitty Gritty Store Sign by Daniel Carlsten

[Justin Elze @HackingLZ]

For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

[Gregg Favalora @gfavalora]

@carl_feynman @psychiel Did you see this article from 1987 in Omni about lucid dreaming? It suggests reading things twice - if they’re different, you’re likely dreaming, and then could control it. https://t.co/WECq1iC95H

[Thinkwert @Thinkwert]

Hard to believe it’s been 21 years since this classic: “E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying To Give Out Over The Phone” by Michael Ward

[PARALLAX-SHIFT @p4ra114x_5h1f4]

YES! THIS IS MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR! - The absolute last minute that abstracts can be submitted to the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference!
T-Minus 5 days to be exact 👀
@SDnAconf

[Gregg Favalora @gfavalora]

@jwt0625 Cool, have fun! You know where to find me…

[Gregg Favalora @gfavalora]

@jwt0625 Have you looked at Scophony and the MIT Media Lab’s Holovideo Mark I and II?

[Gregg Favalora @gfavalora]

@p4ra114x_5h1f4 Whoops, I meant to say the part that stuck out to me is the “anti-pinhole” (small blocker) half of the work. Check out the second part of their CVPR slides. Hmm they cite a 1982 paper…

[Gregg Favalora @gfavalora]

@p4ra114x_5h1f4 I need to refresh my memory about it, but: light must bounce off a “scene,” then be blocked by an occluder (a basketball, even), and then (typically at least) hit a surface which is then photographed. Perhaps the camera needs excellent SNR, can’t recall.

[Gregg Favalora @gfavalora]

@p4ra114x_5h1f4 The gist is that whereas a typical pinhole camera (or room with a pinhole) uses a “hole,” it turns out an OCCLUDER works too, like a basketball!

[Gregg Favalora @gfavalora]

@p4ra114x_5h1f4 @RealPreCinema Ever see “Accidental pinhole and pinspeck cameras”? When I saw this stuff and the videos it was a “wait, what???” moment for me: https://t.co/dJgVyT0S5y

[PARALLAX-SHIFT @p4ra114x_5h1f4]

👌👌👌 1935 “An Explanation of Relief Cinema” by Jean Labadie, Translated by Hisashi Karako https://t.co/OAxz1etCPN

[PARALLAX-SHIFT @p4ra114x_5h1f4]

For sale, really big impressive 3D video game collection. Super rare & obscure shit. Multiple copies of a few choice choice items. Museum pieces. I actually wrote my whitepaper @SDnAconf on it. I have shit no one else thought of looking for. #3d #retrogames #3dvideogames

[Gregg Favalora @gfavalora]

Some art for my stereoscopy buddies (MUSÉE BANKSY):

[Gregg Favalora @gfavalora]

Google’s “… Project Starline is evolving into a new 3D video communication platform: Google Beam…” https://t.co/at70OiSnNx