Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Droste effect

    Droste effect

    In the year 1956, “the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher made an unusual lithograph with the title ‘Print Gallery’. It shows a young man viewing a print in an exhibition gallery. Amongst the buildings depicted on the print, he sees paradoxically the very same gallery that he is standing in.” The term was coined by…

  • Backup while you save

    Backup while you save

    It is always a bit difficult to actually think about doing backups. Either you spend too much time thinking about it or you forget about it. For Windows, I found a nice free utility program: FileHamster from MOGware. This small utility will allow you to automatically backup every single file you save or modify. FileHamster…

  • Sequel to F.E.A.R. – Project Origin trailers

    Assassin trailer HD trailerSD trailer

  • Pink flamingo

    Pink flamingo

    Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber, Flamant rose). Brazil, 2007.

  • Newsgroups: Freely download big files

    Newsgroups: Freely download big files

    While everybody is speaking about downloads under surveillance of law enforcement forces and **AA groups defending the copyrights of music and cinema, I wondered where the download addicts were going now to get their load of big files. I looked into the P2P networks heavily protected by a strong encryption and supposed to guarantee the…

  • Roseate Spoonbill

    Roseate Spoonbill

    Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja, Spatule rosée). Brazil, 2007.

  • Robotic foosball table

    It’s bit too slow to be a tough competitor, but it’s worth thinking about one more sport where the computer/robot is now actively playing against human beings. Autonomous Foosball Table (at Instructables.com).

  • Mad architecture

    Mad architecture

  • Collared Plover

    Collared Plover

    Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Collared Plover (Charadrius collaris, Pluvier d’Azara). Brazil, 2007.