Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 7:14 PM for 12h 46m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 25.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1947, it’s the first case of a ‘computer bug‘ being found:…
Animation
Animation, Daily Bread, Holiday
Daily Bread for 12.25.22: Merry Christmas 2022
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Good morning. Christmas in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 11. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 4:26 PM for 9h 02m 27s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 6.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the…
Animation, Cats
Friday Catblogging: A Computer-Animated Cat from 1968
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Over at BoingBoing, one reads that “Kitty” is an early realistic computer animation from 1968: Kitty is an early computer animation, created by a group of Soviet physicists and mathematicians in 1968. It was made on a BESM-4 computer. The computer used alphabetical characters (similar to ASCII art) to make the images, transferred the resulting…
Animation, Film
Short Film: Maestro
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Animation, Cartoons & Comics
Sunday Animation: Fiddlesticks (1930)
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Animation, Film
Sunday Animation: Omelette
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Animation
Sunday Animation: The Orchestra
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Animation
Sunday Animation: The Shrewd Awakening
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Animation, Film
Sunday Animation: The Evolution of the Desk
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Animation
Sunday Animation: BLOOMS
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Blooms are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. Unlike a 3D zoetrope, which animates a sequence of small changes to objects, a bloom animates as a single self-contained sculpture. The bloom’s animation effect is achieved by progressive rotations of the golden ratio, phi Φ, the same ratio that nature…
Animation, Cartoons & Comics
Sunday Animation: Riding the Rails
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Animation
Sunday Animation: A Summer Story
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Animation, Cartoons & Comics
Tom & Jerry
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Eighty years ago today, Tom and Jerry made their debut in the short Puss Gets the Boot. Initially named Jasper and Jinx at the time, they would go onto become the most famous animated cat and mouse duo of all time and pave the way for some of the greatest animated slapstick. pic.twitter.com/uLGUxxanZq— Animated Antic…