Best in Show Award: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore Directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and Technicolor musicals. Jury Award: Paths of Hate ...

There are several articles and Python modules talking about how to do concurrent/distributed/parallel computing in Python. There is an article in Python wik addressing “Parallel Processing and Multiprocessing in Python ” which is a good start point for that. But the most interests me is how to make map parallel. One reason is that I started functional programming for a while and I started to switch my mind from imperative for-loop + if-else into map + filter + reduce + comprehension list; the other reason is that parallel map is just so good to boost up your program without chaning your code a lot. ...

Source: Every 3D Movie Ever Made, Now With a 2D Chart! . Sony 這幾天，發佈了這麼一張 Every 3D Movie Ever Made 的 infographics 圖（直接點擊上圖，就可以看到大圖了，解析度 6000x1601, 檔案大小 1.5MB）。我稍為看了一下我出生的那年（1978），有部 Surf Girls 也，不曉得好不好看 :p ...

Elephants Dream (2006) Big Buck Bunny (2008) Sintel (2010)

老超人（Heavy Duty） 是我很喜愛的一個太極自製作品 ，它簡短（約四分鐘）、節奏緊湊（有哪個動作片節奏很慢的?）、顏色飽合（水彩/油畫風格，再參雜了一點點的描邊線稿）、故事簡單易懂（跨國界，只單靠畫面就可以傳達訊息）、沒有語言的障礙（因為沒有安排 budget 請聲優）、沒有文化隔閡（超人雖然源自美國，但全世界的超人形象已經都被同化得差不多了）。 ...

2011年我們又要再來跟你碰面。DrupalCamp台北將在 7/9, 7/10於台北的中國科技大學舉辦（近捷運萬芳醫院站），將會有300人一起參與這場盛會！ ...

你有聽過由一隻兔子來向你介紹什麼是 render farm，又它與 cloud computing 有什麼關係的嗎? 沒有的話，那你真的應該繼續看下去，因為真的很好笑… 在 Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM 等“人“這樣努力不懈地告訴世人，什麼是雲端計算（cloud computing）之後，接著是一群網路先知（Internet Pioneer）這邊 blog, 那邊撰寫短文，加上偶爾還發表了一些論文（Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing ），連台灣的教授們也一路下海宣傳了，像佈道大會似的，這是場科技業都會想參一腳的世界趨勢。 ...

Colourwar is just like others, making a website doing user study to figure some meaningful or perceptual ideas for human beings, which can then be abstracted as some sort of mathematical forms (yes, I hear you are screaming the formulae) and then applied to get some interesting (and userful) apps. Right now, they have 2 testings: 1) gray, and 2) HDR.