Another amazing feat from production teams at Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, California, …read more »
WALL·E – We have the technology
WALL·E
Such a loving little film about an endearing robot. Whenever I’ve been in the cinema over the last month or so I’ve heard people saying “Have they remade …read more »
A shape by any other name
For recent design project I spent the better part of a day trying to find out the name of a 72 faced shape. Finding the schema for naming a 2 dimensional shape, also known as a polygon, by its number of faces was easy; wikipedia had a brief naming table. Finding a similar table for a 3 dimensional shape, or polyhedron, was a lot harder (I actually had to use a book!) but very obvious when I found it. …read more »
Superman Returns: The IMAX Experience
On the doomed planet Krypton, a wise scientist placed his infant son into a spacecraft and launched him to Earth.
Raised by a kind farmer and his wife, the boy grew up to become our greatest protector… Superman.
But when astronomers discovered the distant remains of his home world, Superman Disappeared.
This was my second viewing of this slice of cinematic history, I wasn’t particularly impressed with the 3D effects though, either it was the glasses being bent out of shape, just plain ineffective or my position in the theatre but I really didn’t feel part of the film. Falling with the plane as Superman tries to correct it’s tail spin was completely wasted on me and it all as a bit of a blur.
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