The current issue of Popular Science, the November 2011 issue, is all about the incredible quantities and capabilities of data and visualization. With several articles from big names like Seth Loyd, and visualizations from guys like Jan Willem Tulp and Jer Thorp, it’s sure to be a winner.
The recent Spring 2011 issue of “HPCsource”, a supplement of Scientific Computing, focuses entirely on Visualization including articles on GPGPU programming, Remote 3D Viz, interviews with experts like Kelly Gaither of TACC, and much more. The online digital version includes videos of several parts, but the whole magazine is available in a downloadable PDF.
The issue is sponsored by Dell, so you’ll have to put up with several full-page Dell ads for hardware and services, but the articles look really interesting.
Scientific Computing, April 01, 2011 – ActiveMagazine by Olive Software.
The latest issue of Scientific Computing World has a nice 3-page article on Scientific Visualization, based on some classes and tutorials at recent events. They start off with a typical SciVis pipeline (Kudos to them for actually including “postprocess” after Render, so many groups stop at Render), and discuss several commercial and freely available package ranging from IDL to VTK.
If you’re already a SciVis guru then you probably won’t get much from it, but it’s a great article for scientists or newcomers to see what’s available.
The latest issue of Popular Science magazine has a hidden AR marker that works with the metaio application to show you an interactive 3D display of the new Motorola Xoom tables and Google’s Honeycomb (android) 3.0 OS.
“The Popular Science audience always look forward to reading about what`s next, but this month’s cover gives them an opportunity to experience firsthand the new technologies that are changing the future of magazines,” said David Ginsberg, Integrated Account Manager at Popular Science. “metaio’s software has made it possible for us to keep our readers up to date on the top tech trends in a way that’s fun, dynamic and engaging.”
Check out a demo of the experience below, and read the full release after the break.
Everything changes with time, and a clever visualization of this comes from William Huber who took every cover of Popular Science from 1882 to 2007 and plotted them in this massive graphic.
By arranging thousands of magazine pages into single high resolution images, we are able to reveal gradual temporal changes over long historical periods.
Data:
Popular Science magazine – one issue per every five years from the beginning of magazine publication.
Timescale:
1882 to 2007.
Mapping:
The issues are arranged in the order of publication (left to right, top to bottom).
via Popular_Science_1882-2007_5_yr_intervals | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Time Out New York (TONY) is a Kid’s magazine targeting the New York Area, and the August Issue features an augmented reality trick linking it to a Webby Award winning video of the fifth grade chorus from Staten Island, care of Junaio. All it takes is an issue of the mag, and your handy smartphone.
Elizabeth Barr, editorial director of Time Out North America, has this to say: “Time Out is always looking for ways in which our readers can engage creatively with our product, so creating a cover that plays with augmented reality was a no-brainer. It reflects the spirit of fun that TONY Kids seeks to create on a monthly basis. The cover literally sings to our readers, allowing them to experience firsthand why our editorial team chose to feature the talented students of the P.S. 22 Chorus in the first place.
Full press release and a demo video after the break.
If you pick up the latest issue of Time of Newsweek, you’ll see a great example of the capabilities of NewTek’s LightWave 3D tool. Focusing on the BP Oil Crisis in the Gulf and the various financial crises affecting US States, both covers take some liberties with scale and reality and create evocative and eye-catching covers.
To produce the Newsweek cover, artist Ed Gabel mapped a photograph of the presidential seal onto a 3D object and used LightWave to create the illusion of dripping oil oozing into the hollow spaces of the seal. Zeff then lighted and surfaced the oil model to achieve the desired look and feel, delivering a near-final render to the client in less than a day. Working under such unforgiving deadlines makes repurposing existing assets critical to the design process. Zeff was able to re-use the surfacing and lighting from the cover illustration to generate additional images for the interior pages of the magazine.
See the full release after the break.
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The newest issue of Playboy has centerfold Hope Dworaczyk in Anaglyphic stereo glory 3D. This is an attempt by owner Hugh Hefner to reclaim some falling circulation with a “clever trick” to garner new viewers. As Hef puts it, “What would people most like to see in 3-D? Probably a Naked Lady”.
“This particular picture is one example of how books and magazines are different (than computer images),” Hefner added. “You can hold it in your hands, save them, and as Dad used to, put them under the mattress.”
Sadly, Hef is either showing his age or showing his ignorance by picking the single least flattering 3D technology out there: Anaglyphic Red/Cyan. Why he didn’t pick something that would preserve some of the colors and skin tones, or possibly go Augmented Reality and link it with web video, I guess we’ll never know.
via Hugh Hefner’s new plan to attract Playboy readers: Put centerfold Hope Dworaczyk in 3-D.
It was last year when Bonnier released their “Mag+” concept video, showing an impressive prototype magazine for an iPad-like device. Only 90 days later, they’re back with an official iPad app to bring this concept to life with Popular Science+.
Popular Science+ is a new way of experiencing magazines on digital devices and a first step toward our vision of what digital magazine reading can be. Mag+, Bonnier’s digital magazine platform, is a project that began months ago in a collaboration between Bonnier’s global R&D task force and BERG, a London-based design studio.
Our goal has been to preserve all the qualities that make magazines such a powerful, popular medium—inspired packaging of carefully curated content by a team of expert editors, delivered in a visually dazzling issue with a beginning, middle and end—and at the same time to reinvent it in a way that makes it come to life on the iPad’s screen.”
You can read more about it in the Bonnier Beta Labs, and get the app via iTunes ($4.99).
Amazon has a new promotion this month for Magazine Subscriptions. First off, they have a huge number of magazines on massive discounts (several over 80% off). Also, select magazines have an extra incentive, 2 years for the price of 1! Some to check out:
And many many more.. Go check it out, and see if you can find any other great deals!
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