Visual arts

Photo: Germain Lussier/io9/MondoMondo has had a huge impact on my life. As far back as I can remember, I always loved movie posters. Growing up, I’d buy posters at Suncoast or take them from my video store, and tack them to my wall. If they ripped, I’d just throw them out and get new ones. Years later, the posters of Mondo made me realize the papers hanging on my wall could be more than just decorations. They could be collectible art too, and that flipped a switch.In 2008, I bought my first Mondo poster, The Lost Boys by…

Glass can be cleaned and reused many times, but it doesn’t break down in the environment and can sit in landfills for thousands of years. A team of scientists tried to tackle this problem by developing biodegradable glass that can safely break down over a much shorter period of time.In a study published last week in the journal Science Advances, a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Process Engineering describe how theyengineered what they are calling biodegradable glass made from amino acids or…

Bing search made a giant leap forward in popularity and gained new conversational abilities when Microsoft added OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology with the new Bing Chat tab. Now. another mode of operation is available with Bing Image Creator, which turns your written description into a picture. According to Microsoft’s blog post, Bing Image Creator uses a more advanced version of OpenAI’s Dall-E. That means it can produce high-quality, photorealistic digital pictures, drawings, and paintings for you based on the text…

Scientists working on the scorched interior of Notre-Dame de Paris have found iron was used in the cathedral’s construction in the mid-12th century. It’s an unexpected discovery that changes how researchers thought the church was built, and provides surprising insights on the iron trade in 12th-century Paris.The findings were made possible—ironically—by the devastating fire that swept through the famous cathedral in April 2019 during planned renovations. The fire destroyed most of the church’s roof and prompted…

A Netherlands museum is facing criticism for selecting an AI-generated piece of art to temporarily take the place of the renowned Girl with a Pearl Earring painting. The artwork was created by Johannes Vermeer in 1665 and is usually located at the Mauritshuis Museum but is on loan at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until June 4.In the interim, the Mauritshuis Museum held a competition for local artists to submit their own versions of the Girl with a Pearl Earring painting and said it would select one of the submissions to…

A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backwardwritings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were established by Galileo Galilei.The team’s findings come from a revisit of the Codex Arundel, a compilation of documents written by da Vinci that detail various experiments and personal notes taken down in the latter 40 years of his life. The codex is freely accessible online courtesy of the British Museum. The team’s research is…

Image: Courtesy of Hussey-Cotton Films LtdPop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s work is instantly recognizable: the giant, colorful canvases; the Ben-Day dots; the distinctively comic book-inspired images. That last element has caused controversy over the years, as critics point out “inspired” can sure look a lot like “ripped off.” A new documentary digs in.Directed by James L. Hussey—who told io9 he got the idea for his film from a 2014 post on this very website—Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation puts it…

Frank Lloyd Wright was not only known for his iconic architectural creations like the groundbreaking Fallingwater house and the Guggenheim Museum, but also for designing many of the complementary furniture pieces found inside them. Steelcase is resurrecting some of those designs it helped Wright bring to life decades ago in a new collection now geared toward the home office.In 1936, construction started on a new building in Racine, Wisconsin, that would serve as the world headquarters for S. C. Johnson & Son.…

For now, there’s really only one way to capture an HDR image when lighting conditions vary wildly across the frame: you take multiple shots with different exposures, and then assemble a final composite using the properly exposed areas from the various images. But that could soon be on the way out, with a new Canon sensor allowing for multiple exposure settings across different regions of the sensor.The cameras in most modern smartphones now completely automate the process of creating a high dynamic range—or HDR—image,…

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