In an hilarious attempt to make things look more complicated than they actually are, the makers of the Eye Clops–an analog video magnifier device–have included two ‘printed’ circuit boards in their product: one is an actual, functional board; the other is a printed sticker with an image of circuitry.
The toy itself is quite cool, but I can’t help laughing when I imagine the development meeting where someone proposed adding fake circuitry. And interestingly enough it’s difficult to notice. I didn’t figure it out until a friend took the outer casing off.
Felt is an extremely versatile material. It’s non-woven, which means it has no warp, no weft, and no bias; it doesn’t unravel, which makes it an ideal material for intricate garments. However, because it is thick and relatively unforgiving, cutting intricate patterns and structures into felt is difficult to do by hand. Precise cutting is usually done by means of an industrial die cutter, which is costly when producing things in small quantities.
This is a Javascript filter for Photoshop CS2 that takes an image and vertically stretches each line of pixels into one whole frame. It generates a series of images that, when used as video frames, create long vertical pan (slit scan) down the image.
