Veselin Dikov

Рано сутринта на 24. май ни събуди едно невероятно жужене (мисля, че се чува на поне 1 км радиус). Заварихме на по-горен етаж в нашия блок горната картина – роене на пчели. Пожарната беше вече повикана от бдителни съседи. Пожарникарите дойдоха и казаха, че самите те не знаят какво да правят. Аз се прибрах и седнах да закусвам и очаквах, пожарникарите да докарат стълба и да действат нещо, което имах намерение да заснема. По едно време видяхме обаче само един чичка да влачи една голяма торба на колелца на някъде, а пчелите бяха изчезнали. Още се чудя дали

а) просто извикаха специалист по борба с вредителите и той ги е изтровил на бърза ръка, или
б) са извикаха пчелар, който си ги е хванал и ще си направи нов кошер с тях

Доколкото познавам немците и манията им , сакън да не навредим на некоя животинка, по-скоро (б).

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Letztes Wochenende sind wir noch ein Stück vorangekommen. Nun haben wir Kork im (Eltern-)Schlafzimmer, Parkett in der Küche und auf 80% Parkett im Wohnzimmer. Den Parkett in der Küche habe ich mit Acryl dicht gemacht. Sodass die Fugen nicht ewig viel Stoff verschlücken, haben wir sie zuerst mit Iso-Mattestreiffen gestopft.

My brother came for a week and we had a marvelous progress together with him. The poor guy didn’t get any rest, as he was planning originally.

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Did you watch Avatar? Sure you did/will!

Or may be not – a $300 million movie, promoted for additional $150 million, hugh!? One might think they are selling us again a rotten egg in a shiny package. Actually, the movie is quite spectacular – the story is naïve and childish but the technology and the design behind the film are simply amazing!!

Mostly because of the 3D. 3D computer graphics combined with 3D camera shooting – James Cameron developed his own two camera (stereoscopic) box. He waited some 10 years for the technology to catch up with the ideas he had back then in 1999, right after finishing “Titanic”.

And now he has it. The 3D celebrates its resurection, stronger than ever. I remember watching a dull and badly synthesized movie some 7-8 years ago in Sofia, Bulgaria. We had a set of red-green glasses, and we could only see 3D if we concentrate really hard in order to get the right (red) on the left (green) views overlapping. After the 15 minutes were gone, you get totally dizzy out of the theater, doubting that there is some future in this 3D stuff. Back then there were polarized glasses too – but in other, technologically more advanced lands. Yet, there was no content for this technology, there were no movies. Unlike now. In the last decade we have witnessed the tremendous improvement in (2D viewed) 3D graphics. E.g. my personal favourite – the movies of Pixar. 2009 we got flooded by (mostly animated) movies for 3D cinemas. 3D is coming back!

We just found a site for “funky” image processing … So you can actually omit “industrial” before “image processing”?!?

Above images are processed on http://www.befunky.com

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