Jon Stewart may be returning to the Kodak Theater to host the 80th Academy Awards. The New York Times is reporting that the King of All Fake News is being courted to return to the show after Ellen DeGeneres took the reins last year.
The show is scheduled for February 24 on ABC and will be produced by Gil Cates, who was also the producer when Stewart last hosted. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is expected to make the official announcement on Wednesday.
For me, not much. I don’t remember the names well. I didn’t watch as much movies as I thought. I love watching them but I just don’t have that much time I guess.
In the following video, Institute for Creative Technologies shows you how they create a visual effect that resembles that of the Star Wars hologram. Neat!
360° Light Field Display
We describe a set of rendering techniques for an autostereoscopic light field display able to present interactive 3D graphics to multiple simultaneous viewers 360 degrees around the display. The display consists of a high-speed video projector, a spinning mirror covered by a holographic diffuser, and FPGA circuitry to decode specially rendered DVI video signals. The display uses a standard programmable graphics card to render over 5,000 images per second of interactive 3D graphics, projecting 360-degree views with 1.25 degree separation up to 20 updates per second. We describe the system’s projection geometry and its calibration process, and we present a multiple-center-of-projection rendering technique for creating perspective-correct images from arbitrary viewpoints around the display. Our projection technique allows correct vertical perspective and parallax to be rendered for any height and distance when these parameters are known, and we demonstrate this effect with interactive raster graphics using a tracking system to measure the viewer’s height and distance. We further apply our projection technique to the display of photographed light fields with accurate horizontal and vertical parallax. We conclude with a discussion of the display’s visual accommodation performance and discuss techniques for displaying color imagery.
Matt Groening, Al Jean, Yeardley Smith and the others on the Simpsons Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con sing the Spider-Pig theme from the Simpsons movie at the request from a fan.
Simpsons Panel Sings Spider-Pig at SDCC
Ahh, I love that song. I’ll post more Spider-pig to torment my readers. I abso-fabu-lutely love it! Maybe I should get The Spider-pig Simpsons soundtrack.
Get groovy with your favorite intergalatic companion - The Imperial Stormtrooper. Watch him groove with the tunes at the streets of Akihabara (ç§?è??å??).
Tokyo Dance Trooper
Find the music of life at starwars.com. Music to groove you by Earth wind and fire. One day I’ll visit Tokyo.
