Hammer a nail into a tree, and it will... get stuck. So why doesn't the same thing happen to the sharp beaks of woodpeckers? Scientists may finally have the answer. In a 2021 study, researchers took high-speed videos of two black woodpeckers pecking away at hardwood trunks in zoos and analyzed them frame by frame to see how the head and beak moved throughout each peck. The bird's secret: an ability to move its upper and lower beaks independently, the team reports. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchivesshow more

I wanted to make something a bit different and... more interactive for The Beaks, so I built a game! Meet FLAPPY BEAK 🐦 PLAY: Made with love for The Beaks, inspired by Dima Kashtalyan’s art. Drop your score screenshot in the replies. Let’s see who the real pilots are 👀🔥show more

🦩 Beaks IRL: Your Beak, beyond the screen. Hold... Beaks and receive physical artwork from Dima Kashtalyan T-Shirts. Prints. Tapestries. Original sketches. More Beaks = more rewards🧵show more

the way ilya looks at him, the way he's... so giddy so openly in love so happy to have shane near and be able to mask a public display of affection as them winning on the same team the way his eyes never leave shane for even a second, following his frame, soaking the sight of him inshow more

From International Space Station, we have a unique vantage... point to observe lightning storms from directly above them. Much like from the ground, they appear as rapid, intense flashes that are over as quickly as they started. But, with the help of handheld cameras and a bit of practice (and, admittedly, some luck), we can capture these intense flashes with a very high frame rate then slow them down to see how the lightning propagates. It's lightning, in slow motion. This is one that occurred over Indonesia on 6/28. I shot it for a half second at 1/120 frame rate, so, 60 separate frames. I then compiled those frames into two videos: the first, in real-time, and the second, slowed down so that each frame is a half second to highlight the progression of the flash. Note the incredible burst of light in one frame, which includes what is likely a TLE on the upper left. A TLE, or Transient Luminous Event, is an electrical discharge that happens in the upper atmosphere above lightning storms (if you haven’t seen Ferry Farhan TLE photo from last week, head over to her page). As their name implies, these are transient, or short lived, phenomena – it appeared in only one frame of the sequence, lasting for no more than 1/120th of a second. The last photo is that single frame. Absolutely incredible.show more

The kids took the golf cart out and got... stuck in a little embankment at the park, the cops arrive because someone apparently doesn’t like to see kids have fun and called them. The dad seems confident they won’t get into trouble and even tells them to run away in a jokingly way. Do you feel he should be encouraging kids to be fearful of the police?show more

I understand that many of you are very impatient.... Those who complain just need to take a calming pill and relax. This operation has a time frame set from the beginning to the end of 45-47. It has been dismantled move by move, each move has been calculated and through various phases and stages of the operation it must go through. We are in the final phase. And now I am here for those who have found me. I am giving you insight day by day as we approach the grand finale of the events. I have published the daily war reports so you can tune in to see what is happening day by day. There is no one else who does this. You cannot tell people the truth, we have to show it to them. You have to experience the pain, the difficulties. Otherwise people would remain asleep, and no one would believe what the cabal had planned for humanity. They were about to ESTIMATE US, create a NUCLEAR WAR and everyone go underground in the DUMBS and the underground cities they have built. After the EBS/EAS Nesera/Gesera will be active and you will receive all your money! So stop complaining and learn to have faith and trust in GQD. There is no exact date and time set for the EBS/EAS. Everything depends on how the population responds to all these events that are happening. The events coming are designed to create the emotion and desperation that humanity needs to make all this happen. The best thing you can do is maintain your frequency and vibration, stop trying to wake up the sleeping and just be quiet. Enter discussions and put yourself in a position where you will be insulted, lower your vibration and frequency. When humanity is at its breaking point, that is when it will happen. But it will happen. Trust the plan. Trust the process. And trust GQD. daniel H/T Lyran Lightworkershow more

My warriors, I’ve teamed up with the lovely PAUSE... who have helped me turn each frame of the ‘Runaway’ music video into a beautiful one-of-a-kind piece of art ✨ Each frame can only be purchased once and never again, and some are even signed by me! Please follow the link to my website for more information and sign up to my mailer for early access on 6th May. Everyone else will be able to access the PAUSE artworks on the 7th May 🖼show more

This angle offers a terrific perspective of hip shoulder... separation in pitching. The ability to move the lower body independently of the upper body is such an important skill for rotational athletes. 🎥: Ben Brewstershow more

Babies don’t babble to sound cute—they’re taking their first... steps on the path to learning language. A 2022 study shows parrot chicks do the same. Although the behavior has been seen in songbirds and two mammalian species, finding it in these birds is important, experts say, as they may provide the best nonhuman model for studying how we begin to learn language. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchivesshow more

The Figma glass teaser and launch videos were made... entirely with a series of screen recordings using with CleanShot for mac. For the teaser, I took the UI component, masked it and just resized and moved the mask around the screen in tandem with the glass frame. Noah Levin suggested we tease the light direction icon. It took a few tries to get just right, and in one take. 😅show more

Reflections of mountains, water and sky fill the scene... as a Fuxing bullet train glides through the landscape. In Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, egrets and high-speed rail share the same frame, turning a fleeting moment into a picture of harmony.show more

This guy built a visual scanner that reads 468... points on his face and 42 points on his hands from a regular webcam and turns them into a cloud of thousands of particles right between his palms. Inside, MediaPipe and TouchDesigner are linked: the first captures hands and face from the webcam with high accuracy, the second turns those coordinates into a live plane and feeds it into a POP system that instantly generates a swarm of particles in the shape of a head. No studio, no render farmer, no VR headset. Just a laptop, a webcam, and 1 TouchDesigner session. And traditional VJ studios keep teams of 5 people on a setup with lighting, custom hardware, and commercial plugins, while his expenses are only a TouchDesigner subscription and a regular USB camera. One laptop runs MediaPipe and TouchDesigner simultaneously, holds the camera stream at 60 FPS without drops, and in parallel processes 468 face points + 21 points on each hand. The camera captures frame after frame, MediaPipe in real time sends TouchDesigner the finger coordinates and face geometry, and the POP operator inside the engine translates those numbers into thousands of particle points with colors from bright pink to gold. This setup immediately defines the role of the tool and the limits of its autonomy. It knows where the fingertips are at every moment of the frame. It knows how to read the face geometry at any angle to the camera. It knows how to draw a swarm of particles between them with the right color and contour. → MediaPipe pulls 468 points from the face and 21 points from each hand, 60 times per second → TouchDesigner receives those coordinates, builds a virtual rectangle between the fingertips, and feeds it into the POP system → POP generates thousands of particle points in the shape of a head, coloring them in a gradient from bright pink to gold → The HUD layer adds green corners and a blue neon frame, styling the image like an AR interface → All layers assemble into 1 real-time frame that projects back onto the video in the camera window → The final image is recorded to a file or broadcast to a projector for a live installation And only when the guy spreads his hands wider does the plane between the palms stretch; brings them together, it narrows. Otherwise the system runs on its own. And when he moves from his home room to a concert hall, the same laptop with the same webcam launches the same TouchDesigner session in just 5 minutes, without reconfiguration, without a new team, and without a single line of new code. In his work setup there is no studio of his own and no team for assembly. On the desk sits a laptop with a webcam, on top run MediaPipe and TouchDesigner with POP operators, and the same setup through a USB camera moves to any concert without a new configuration. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest Creative Coding setup on 1 laptop: 0 render farms, 0 studio lighting, and between them 3 libraries, thousands of particle points, and 1 webcam.show more

We spent the morning sitting in the garden doing... some birdwatching. ☀️ We saw two great spotted woodpeckers, a blue tit feeding her chicks in the tree, and a pair of wood pigeons mating. Ajax is learning a lot!show more

Once again, the Black Skimmer is demonstrating the wonders... of aerodynamics. Each twist of the body, each individual feather helping steer while a wall of crashing white water rumbles just behind the bird’s outstretched tail. Like a surgeon’s scalpel, the bird’s lower beak surgically slices through the water with utmost care and precision in hopes of coming into contact with a poor, unsuspecting fish. This attempt might have been unsuccessful, but it doesn’t seem like the bird has a care in the world. It just keeps skimming through the shallows, waiting for that tasty morsel to graze its outstretched beak. So remember, when failure raises its head and stares you in the eye. Just keep skimming because eventually you’ll succeed just like the magical Black Skimmer.show more

Black woman filmed two Russian women being racist towards... her. I didn’t see a black person in real life until I moved to the United States, so yes, seeing black people is a lot more rare in Russia. Don’t come to a predominantly white country and cry “racism”, same would happen in a predominantly black country towards a white person. There are A LOT of non white countries in the world, by the way, maybe move back if you don’t like it?show more

A poultry vision blocking cap is a device fitted... to a chicken's beak to block its forward vision. By preventing the bird from seeing what is directly in front of it, the device helps control cannibalism and aggressive pecking. [📹 discover.agriculture]show more

a🧵on how to do the movable crater tech, You... will learn this step by step, It should only take a couple of minutes to do it so lock in, Simple Overview: 1) Draw a black texture that represents a crack (use lasso or draw then fill tool) 2) Use a png to svg converter to make it into svg (you MUST make the crack black!) 3) Make the mesh of the crater 4) Export it as fbx and Import it in Roblox Studio 5) Create a viewport put the thing inside play with some lighting,material of crater n ur done 6) Make another viewport and make it so that it duplicates the character of the player every frame and puts in the viewport so that you can see it to be above the crater viewport Now for the detailed tutorial:show more

A series of 3 videos about “HOW TO MOVE... FORWARD A CYCLE IN PLACE” for beginners! In this first one we will see how to move it forward using the main control and how to avoid the sliding of the feet! #Animation #Walk #Cycle #slidingfeet #Beginnershow more

Generative 3d environments just became a thing with the... announcement of OpenAI's new video model, Sora. Michael Rublof from took one of those videos, and turned it into a NeRF using Colmap and Nerfstudio. While people are laughing at the topology of generated models, the world is changing around us, and that's exciting and a little scary, but we'll find a way to turn Gen Ai into creative superpowers. I believe in human creativity, in our ability to surprise, to move, to change and to challenge. Here's to the future! #ai #artshow more