photography
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This Clever Camera Trick Lets You Photograph The Invisible World Around Us
Video: When you rub your hands together to create friction and warmth, heat energy radiating off your hand creates air currents. They’re completely invisible to the human eye, but with a simple setup, it turns out your digital camera can reveal this invisible world around us.
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These GIFs Of Endlessly Looping Waves Will Soothe Your Battered Soul
OK, so technically they’re not GIFs, but “cinemagraphs”, short, seamlessly repeating videos. Either way, these incredible loops of dramatic waves from Ray Collins and Armand Dijcks are endlessly soothing. Just watch and watch and watch and forget that the Earth will soon be one giant ocean.
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Sticking A Camera Under A Faucet Feels Like Hurtling Down A Hypnotic Water Tunnel
Video: The next time you have to visit your dentist to get a cavity filled, or a dreaded root canal, you might not need any anaesthesia if you’re able to watch the incredibly hypnotic footage from a waterproof camera pointed up at a running faucet.
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AI-Powered Software Makes It Incredibly Easy To Colourise Black And White Photos
AI-powered software that can automatically colourise old black and white photos exists, but it’s often far from perfect. In comparison, manually colourising an image in Photoshop yields stunning results, if you have a lot of time and impressive skills. But a new app, developed at the University of California at Berkeley, cleverly merges both approaches…