November 2010
15 posts
WatchSTORYBOARD TEXT
I have decided to make one long shot for this film which travels with a mass of foglets as they change their material state and spatial configurations.
Although very boring to sit through, arranged in 3d space along an abstract spline (embracing the digital space), the text becomes not just a storyboard but accurate placeholders for the different elements i wish to introduce.
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WatchUNIT 15 3D SHOWREEL 2010
FOGLETS - Just what the doctor ordered
The Utility Fog, or UFog, invented by Dr. Hall, consists of smart material made up of tiny identical nano-robots, or foglets. Each foglet is mostly made of telescoping arms and a nanocomputer and would be 6 to 10 millionths of a meter in size. Some of the arms would grip the ends of other foglet arms for power and communications connections while the others cling to the original...
A LEGION OF PETAFLOPS
A Petaflop is a new term used in computing to denote one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Ten years ago such capacity was considered pure science fiction. Today the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S is building 2, 20 petaflop supercomputers in a bid to take the lead away from China in the supercomputer race. China’s Tianhe-1A system clocks speeds of merely 2.57 petaflops....
TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY
A technological singularity is a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so rapid that it makes the future after the singularity qualitatively different and harder to predict. Many of the most recognized writers on the singularity, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, define the concept in terms of the technological creation of superintelligence, and allege that a...
