nathan cushing

30 Apr

ryanpanos:

Precise Images of Buildings That 3D Scanning Enables by Scott Page Design

3D scanning—though it’s been around since the 1960s—has been in the news of late, with Harvard using the technology to recreate ancient statues and MakerBot announcing a desktop scanner last month. But cheaper, faster, and more accessible 3D scanners aren’t just revolutionizing how we print terrifying models of our own faces. They’re also changing how we understand the city.

A fascinating story about urban-scale 3D scanning published on the Atlantic Cities this week explores how a Bay Area architect named Scott Page is using a 3D scanner to generate super-accurate models of historic and dilapidated buildings.

Page’s system takes a series of photographs and patches them together based on how light bounces off each surface. Rather than taking weeks to survey an old building, architects can now generate precise dimensions in just a few hours. Because the scanner uses color photographs, the models are also incredibly beautiful, expressive documents—Page compares them to the first photographs ever made. “There is a magical quality to point cloud imagery, similar to the earliest photos that froze time onto small metallic plates,” he writes on his website.

(via slavin)

15 Apr

Text interview with @btypes

I actually finished about 10 minutes before the explosion so I was walking back here because it is where I am staying and a girl ran past and said there was an explosion. I went to the apt where I am staying and we thought that it was just something small but then we saw all of the blood and knew that there was no way there were not massive injuries.
We then saw lots of stretchers and since we are so close we can see dozens of ambulances, police cars, swat etc.
Sirens haven't stopped.
They say flights are going to be delayed and the mayor has asked us to stay out of the streets.

10 Apr

(via architectura)

8 Apr

nevver:

Subways of North America

4 Apr

(Source: brooklynmutt)

30 Mar

archatlas:

Haus der Tagesmütter Gutiérrez-delafuente Arquitectos / TallerDE2 Arquitectos

Images by Fernando Alda

(via mollypopgirl)

25 Mar

jayrosen:

I’ve decided to reveal my own SEO secrets. Here’s my top pro tip.

19 Mar

langer:

Hi Digg. So you’re great and a lot of people are really excited that you’re back (myself included!) but… this sucks, because this is theft. What you’re doing here is stealing people’s writing.

Both your iPhone and iPad apps take entire pieces from other websites, reformat them with some sort of Readability- or Instapaper-style algorithm, then republish them without any of the ads the original publisher relies on to keep paying writers to write.

And that’s obviously not ok.

Yes, at the very end of the republished article you provide a link to the original piece (the same one the user has already finished reading because you republished it in its entirety), and while this may seem like a good faith measure it is one I’ve argued in the past is fundamentally no different from content farming.

Anyway, please don’t do this. Please fix this. Please stop stealing writing.