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Tortoises at Dawn, Galapagos Islands, 1984, by Frans Lanting.
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From Richard Waller, “A Catalogue of Simple and Mixt Colours with a Specimen of Each Colour Prefixt Its Properties” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 6, 1686/1687 (London, 1688) Noting the lack of a standard for colors in natural philosophy, and inspired by a similar table published in Stockholm, Richard Waller indicated that his “Table of Physiological Colors Both Mixt and Simple” would permit unambiguous descriptions of the colors of natural bodies. To describe a plant, for example, one could compare it to the chart and use the names found there to identify the colors of the bark, wood, leaves, etc. Similar applications of the information collected in the chart might also extend to the arts and trades, he suggested. Read more about Waller’s color system in The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Lowengard. (via A naturalist’s color palette, circa 1686 : bioephemera
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The formula for Hollywood movies
After analyzing dozens of Hollywood films, a team of researchers has found evidence that the visual rhythm of movies at the shot level matches a pattern called the 1/f fluctuation, the same pattern that is found in dozens of natually occurring phenomena, including the length of the human attention span.
These results suggest that Hollywood film has become increasingly clustered in packets of shots of similar length. For example, action sequences are typically a cluster of relatively short shots, whereas dialogue sequences (with alternating shots and reverse-shots focused sequentially on the speakers) are likely to be a cluster of longer shots. In this manner and others, film editors and directors have incrementally increased their control over the visual momentum of their narratives, making the relations among shot lengths more coherent over a 70-year span.
Modern action movies are particularly adept at matching the audience’s attention span in this manner. The full paper is available here.
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Infographic of the Day: “Big Brothers: Satellites orbiting Earth” by Michael Paukner.
What’s up there? How many countries have stuck satellites up into space, how many of those satellites are working, part-working or just bits of junk? This graphic may help to enlighten you.
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Infographic of the Day: “Big Brothers: Satellites orbiting Earth” by Michael Paukner.
What’s up there? How many countries have stuck satellites up into space, how many of those satellites are working, part-working or just bits of junk? This graphic may help to enlighten you.
Source: UCS Satellite Database
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1911 Physics Conference: Max Planck, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg among others.
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