Month: February 2015

  • Chopping Down Trees with Chainsaws

    A man heads to the forest to carry out his task: cut down a bunch of dead trees in the middle of the forest. Chainsaw in hand, he hikes several miles to the site and starts felling trees.  One by one they come down quickly but soon his chainsaw runs out of gas.  He hikes…

  • Uncanny Valley of Ability

    When trying create a 3-d computer-rendered human, we find that as we get increasingly more realistic, it only feels more real up to a point.  Suddenly it seems creepy and unreal before finally feeling truly real. Instead of recognizing the rendering as something which is alive, it seems just short of that and so we…