La Primera Cámara Digital

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 · Permalink

Kodak: Plugged In – We Had No Idea:

It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture still images – a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and digitize the captured scene and store the digital info on a standard cassette. It took 23 seconds to record the digitized image to the cassette. The image was viewed by removing the cassette from the camera and placing it in a custom playback device.

De chico pensé que podía crear un robot usando un cassette de audio como memoria. Ver esta cámara con un cassette al lado me hace cosquillas como ninguna otra cosa.

Cómo hace Pixar sus películas

Tuesday, August 4, 2010 · Permalink

Pixar, el genial estudio detrás de Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Buscando a Nemo, WALL-E y muchos otros éxitos, nos cuenta en su página web cómo hacen sus películas.

Pixar: How we do it:

There is a scene in Toy Story 2 when the old man repairing Woody tells the impatient toy Al, “You can’t rush art.” This is specially true at Pixar.

Aprendiendo Ruby con Ruby Koans

Saturday, August 3, 2010 · Permalink

Ruby Koans es un método muy original para aprender a programar en Ruby.

The Koans walk you along the path to enlightenment in order to learn Ruby. The goal is to learn the Ruby language, syntax, structure, and some common functions and libraries. We also teach you culture. Testing is not just something we pay lip service to, but something we live. It is essential in your quest to learn and do great things in the language.