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Kamala Harris for the People is a mosaic that celebrates the resilience and diversity of America. With over 500 faces—everyday Americans, public figures, friends, and neighbors—the piece reflects a collective vision of belonging. Familiar faces like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Pete Buttigieg, and Nancy Pelosi appear alongside teachers, parents, and workers from all walks of life. In Kamala’s eyes are Barack Obama and Joe Biden, symbolizing hope and progress. This mosaic is a tribute to a unified and inclusive future for all. Art can bring people together, one face at a time. Each of these faces contributes to a shared hope, making this work a visual representation of collective American ideals.

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Photoshop CC 2023 tutorial showing the most efficient way to create a photo mosaic portrait and how to quickly apply the mosaic onto other subjects.

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Photomosaic. Fotomosaico.

Word of the week. Palabra de la semana.

Source / Fuente: Mercury's Southern Hemisphere

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honestly I find some of the anti-ai art stuff ridiculous in the rhetoric they use, like people saying it's cheating at art, devalues art, or lacks soul. Photobashing, collage, relying too heavily on a reference and with some people using any reference at all, have all been called cheating at art. I never heard people call it cheating when people used computer programs to make photomosaics.

Art has already been devalued, ordinary artists had been able to make a decent living in the 70s, now it's really hard to make a living through art. There's loads of old dramas where people are like, failed artists, and yet they still have a place to live. It's just not a very nice place. Nowadays even pretty good artists can find it a struggle to not have to have a roommate or a rich partner or something. Also people have been saying that something means that art lacks a human touch for ages, humans have drawn clipart, or made vectors from photographs, and those have been considered lacking a soul or w/e Like the valid points people have tend to be that like companies are going to use generative art to replace artists, that's true, but expanding copyright will always protect the companies not the artists. Producing a right to remix would protect individuals better, it's not people like you who are the problem, it's people like Microsoft Activision Blizard. Secondly the consent in generative works isn't good either, nor is the processing power used, but I'm sure ya'll about ethical works are talking about that. Also personally I think if an individual doesn't make any marks on a piece of generative art, or doesn't produce any code, only keywords and choice I think it would be better to say they're a guider or generationist or something. It just feels more descriptive towards the image making, like how a painter isn't a sculptor, but someone who just does found object art is still basically an artist, but they're not someone who sketches.

I know some artists are scared and feel like they shouldn't bother doing art because the computer can do it, but like, people are still mathematicians even though computers are great at calculations. We might not have human calculators any more, but the field is still very important. On either side of things at very least we should be fighting capitalism and not each other. Like fuck adobe, fuck disney, they can make technically ethical systems from their own massive image libraries, but it's their artists who will suffer the most. We need to provide incomes and housing for everyone, and full union support, to ensure that techology benefits humanity, rather than it benefiting only the capitalists.

Also btw I say this as someone who has done professional art both digitally and physically, and I've not used any generated art for any of it, though I have done a paintover and I really like sketching "this horse doesn't exist" and using "this human doesn't exist" for oil painting practice

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History: A Remarkable New View of the Titanic Shipwreck is Here, Thanks to D eep-sea Mappers

— May 20, 2023 | By Rachel Treisman

Scientists were able to map the entirety of the shipwreck site, from the Titanic's separated bow and stern sections to its vast debris field. Atlantic/Magellan

A deep sea-mapping company has created the first-ever full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, revealing an entirely new view of the world's most famous shipwreck.

The 1912 sinking of the Titanic has captivated the public imagination for over a century. And while there have been numerous expeditions to the wreck since its discovery in 1985, its sheer size and remote position — some 12,500 feet underwater and 400 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada — have made it nearly impossible for anyone to see the full picture.

Until now, that is. Using technology developed by Magellan Ltd., scientists have managed to map the Titanic in its entirety, from its bow and stern sections (which broke apart after sinking) to its 3-by-5-mile debris field.

The result is an exact "digital twin" of the wreck, media partner Atlantic Productions said in a news release.

"What we've created is a highly accurate photorealistic 3D model of the wreck," 3D capture specialist Gerhard Seiffert says. "Previously footage has only allowed you to see one small area of the wreck at a time. This model will allow people to zoom out and to look at the entire thing for the first time ... This is the Titanic as no one had ever seen it before."

The Titanic site is hard to get to, hard to see and hard to describe, says Jeremy Weirich, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Ocean Exploration program (he's been to the site).

'Titanic' was king of the world 25 years ago for a good reason

"Imagine you're at the bottom of the ocean, there's no light, you can't see anything, all you have is a flashlight and that beam goes out by 10 feet, that's it," he says. "It's a desert. You're moving along, you don't see anything, and suddenly there's a steel ship in front of you that's the size of a skyscraper and all you can see is the light that's illuminated by your flashlight."

This new imagery helps convey both that sense of scale and level of detail, Weirich tells NPR.

Magellan calls this the largest underwater scanning project in history: It generated an unprecedented 16 terabytes of data and more than 715,000 still images and 4k video footage.

"We believe that this data is approximately ten times larger than any underwater 3D model that's ever been attempted before," said Richard Parkinson, Magellan founder and CEO.

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Experts in Titanic history and deep-sea exploration are hailing the model as an invaluable research tool. They believe it could help scientists and historians solve some of the ship's lingering mysteries — and learn more about other underwater sites, too.

Longtime Titanic explorer and analyst Parks Stephenson described the model as a "game changer" in a phone interview with NPR.

"It takes [us] further into new technology that's going to be the standard, I think, not just for Titanic exploration, but all underwater exploration in the future," he adds.

The effort yielded 16 terabytes of data and more than 715,000 still images, in what Magellan calls the largest underwater scanning project ever. Atlantic/Magellan

A Project Years in the Making, Featuring Romeo and Juliet

Explorers and artists have spent decades trying to depict the Titanic wreck, albeit in lower-tech ways.

After Robert Ballard — along with France's Jean-Louis Michel — discovered the site in 1985, he combined all of his photos to form the first photomosaic of the wreck, which showed the ship's bow and was published in National Geographic. Those efforts have been replicated in the years since.

"But the problem with all that is it requires interpretation," Stephenson says. "It requires human interpretation, and there are gaps in the knowledge."

Flash forward to the summer of 2022. Scientists spent six weeks capturing scans of the site, using technology that Magellan says it had been developing over the course of five years.

The expedition deployed two submersibles, named Romeo and Juliet, some 2.3 miles below the surface to map every millimeter of the wreck site.

They didn't go inside the ship, let alone touch the site, in accordance with existing regulations, and paid their respects to the more than 1,500 victims with a flower laying ceremony.

And they describe the mission as a challenge, with the team fighting bad weather and technical challenges in the middle of the Atlantic.

"When we saw the data come in it was all worth it," Seiffert says. "The level of detail we saw and recorded was extraordinary."

The scientists spent months processing and rendering the data to create the "digital twin," which the company says it's looking forward to sharing publicly.

Stephenson saw an early version of the model, when Atlantic Productions brought him on to consult on its validity. So did Ken Marschall, the maritime artist known for his Titanic paintings.

"We've both seen it with our eyes. We've both seen thousands of digital images of the wreck in imagery, moving imagery," Stephenson said. "But we'd never seen the wreck like this. It was different, but at the same time you just knew it was right."

Experts say the model will be a valuable tool for future Titanic research and deep-sea exploration in general. Atlantic/Magellan

There's Still a Lot Left to Learn About the Titanic

Can there really be that much left to discover about the Titanic, more than 110 years on?

Stephenson says "at the end of the day, none of this matters." But there's a reason people keep visiting and talking about the wreck, he adds, and it's not because of any buried treasure.

"It's fame, I guess," Stephenson says. "People can't get enough of Titanic. And as long as people can't get enough of the Titanic, people will keep going to ... these mysteries."

In Stephenson's case, it's the unanswered questions that keep drawing him back.

"I've been grinding away at this for a while, and I'm not on a crusade to dismantle the Titanic narrative that has grown since 1912," he says. "But ... I have had enough experience and seen enough evidence that makes me seriously question even some of the most basic aspects of the Titanic story."

One example: Stephenson says there's reason to doubt the long-accepted conclusion that the ship hit the iceberg along its starboard side. He points to a growing body of evidence that suggests it actually grounded briefly on part of the iceberg that was submerged underwater instead.

Just looking at the preliminary modeling has helped Stephenson bring a lot of his evidence and questions into focus — it may be early days, but he says he already has a better understanding of how the ship's stern came to be in such bad shape.

Stephenson sees this moment as a paradigm shift in underwater archaeology.

"We're essentially getting to the end of the first generation of Titanic research and exploration, and we're getting ready to transition into the next generation," he says. "And I think this tool basically signals a shift from that generation to the next."

Stephenson wants to use the model to document the extent of Titanic exploration up to this point, from Ballard to James Cameron and beyond. He says a "massive project" is underway, and will hopefully result in a scientific paper and online archive. Then, he plans to use the tool to answer whatever questions remain.

There have been "photomosaics" and other renderings of the shipwreck over the decades, but this is the first such 3D model. Atlantic/Magellan

The Titanic is a Gateway Into Deep Ocean Exploration

As a maritime archaeologist, Weirich is most interested in what the ship's condition can teach us about how to better preserve deep-sea shipwrecks in general. For example, how has it impacted the environment since it sunk, and how have the visits since its discovery impacted the site?

The Titanic site has been designated as a maritime memorial, which makes preservation even more important. And Weirich says research on everything from its rate of deterioration to the microbial environment can be applied to other such sites worldwide.

There are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of wrecks in the world, from ancient wooden ships in the Black Sea to World War II vessels in the Gulf of Mexico, Weirich says.

And this kind of technology could play a crucial role in learning more about deep-sea environments in general, from undersea resources to geological features to unknown species.

Weirich says he hopes these images of the Titanic will give people a greater appreciation for the deep ocean, and a better understanding of just how much is left to explore.

"The story of Titanic and the shipwreck itself is extremely compelling, but it is a gateway for people to understand what we know and don't know about the deep ocean," he adds.

Weirich remembers being personally captivated by those first images of the shipwreck in National Geographic when he was just 10 years old. That sparked his lifelong interest in ocean exploration — and he hopes young people seeing these latest images are inspired too.

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Researchers find the remains of 5 American World War II bombers in the Adriatic Sea

Researchers from the University of Delaware lead team to the Adriatic Sea in search of missing aircraft

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 12/03/2022 - 19:34 in History, Military

A team from the University of Delaware, working in partnership with the U.S. POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), recently located the wreckage of five B-24 Liberator bombing planes that fell into the Adriatic Sea during World War II.

Of the five B-24s, three have been positively identified and are associated with the loss of 23 American military personnel.

“The location or relocation of these five World War II aircraft was possible by using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that scan the seabed,” said Mark Moline, who was the leader of the Harrington Marine Studies mission and professor at the School of Marine Sciences and Policies at the University of Delaware.

Moline is the co-founder of Project Recover, an organization that uses underwater technologies to help locate and repatriate the more than 80,000 U.S. military personnel still missing in previous conflicts since World War II. During the summer of 2022, Moline led a multidisciplinary team of specialists in search for aircraft associated with the missing service personnel in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.

Data and photographs taken from the site of the underwater wreck were used to create this photomosaic of a missing B-24 bomber. Look at the propeller in the center.

U.S. Army Air Corps personnel were lost in large numbers in Croatia (then Yugoslavia) during World War II. When the American bombers returned from their missions in territory controlled by Germany, some were forced to land or fall in Croatian waters near an allied airfield. Many of the service members of these aircraft are still missing in action.

B-24J Liberators of the 15th Air Force return from the mission to Mühldorf, Germany, to their base in Italy, March 19, 1945. Look at the island of Drvenik Veliki, Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia) below. (Photo: National Archives of the United States via D. Sheley)

These losses in World War II occurred almost 80 years ago, but the disappeared from this conflict were not forgotten. The U.S. government and partner organizations, including UD/Project Recover, continue to conduct these investigations with the aim of responding to the missing. According to Moline, the process of locating a particular aircraft begins years before the team can search the site.

“Before an expedition like this, we conducted research and collected historical documentation of so many potential losses nearby that we can identify,” said Colin Colbourn, a postdoctoral student and adjunct professor at the Department of History at the University of Delaware. "This process, aided by local information and DPAA investigators, proved to be essential, as we were able to definitively identify several of the aircraft through the small details left in the historical record."

An underwater photograph of the final resting place of a shot down World War II bomber.

Moline said it was a team effort that led to these multiple discoveries.

“Although locating and documenting these aircraft is exciting, it is also important to remember that it is only the first step in a long process to return these lost heroes to their families,” Moline said.

Colbourn added: “Thanks to our partnerships, this work in Croatia represented the best possible scenario. In just a few days at the site, we passed scientists and engineers conducting the search using AUVs, followed by divers and archaeologists investigating the wreckage, to identify these aircraft with historical documentation. The frequency of new discoveries and historical records suggest that there is more work to be done in Croatian waters.”

A diver inspects the wing of a World War II B-24 bomber in the waters of Croatia during a two-week search mission in August 2022. (Photo: Project Recover)

The search for the missing aircraft in Croatia is part of a greater innovation effort, sponsored by DPAA, to develop new technologies and approaches to locate possible wreckage sites. The role of the University of Delaware in this effort is to increase underwater technologies and develop new machine learning algorithms to interpret the large sets of data collected during missions.

While traveling through the water, AUVs collect large amounts of sonar data that researchers must analyze to locate remains of an aircraft.

A diver looks for clues about the identity of a World War II B-24 bomber in the waters of Croatia during a two-week search mission in August 2022. (Photo: Project Recover)

“The aircraft we look for are rarely intact, which requires more than just our human vision to interpret,” said Leila Character, a postdoctoral fellow who works with Moline at the University of Delaware. With experience in machine learning, Character is helping the team develop an algorithm that automates the review process, automatically reducing sonar images to only those that are likely to be candidates for further exploration.

Global Partnerships

Mark Moline, from the University of Delaware (left), professor of marine studies, washes the AUV after his research in Croatia, while Matthew Breece, a research scientist, and Erik White, senior engineer, download and analyze the data.

As with all Project Recover missions, global partnerships are essential. J. Tea Katunaric, an archaeologist at the University of Split, represented the government of Croatia and facilitated this mission. Dan Davis, a faculty member of Luther College in Iowa and the mission's main archaeologist, credits the depths of the water for helping to preserve the crash sites and Croatian partners for helping with the discoveries. The team also benefited from Andi Marovic's technical diving and aeronautical expertise from Manta Divers, who found and recovered pieces of wreckage that led to the identification of two aircraft.

“Croatian archaeologists, scientists, divers and military have been extraordinarily professional and kind,” Davis said. "The numerous discoveries and aircraft identifications made this year are largely due to their assistance. The partners of the host nation are proud to play a role in bringing our missing military home."

Diver Evan Kovacs, from Marine Imaging Technologies, prepares to descend into a B-24 wreck field to conduct the photographic documentation.

The work of Moline and his team does not end with the discoveries in Croatia. Missions in the Pacific Ocean are planned for 2023 in the effort of UD/Project Recover to reduce the frightening number of 80,000 Americans missing in action.

About the Recover Project

Project Recover is a collaborative effort to enlist 21st century science and technology in a quest to find and repatriate Americans missing in action (MIA) since World War II, in order to provide recognition and closure to families and the nation.

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Fernando Valduga

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. It has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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It wasn’t just the baby dressed as a chicken.

If Donald Trump or JD Vance thought it was a good idea to suck on the toes of an unrelated child I’d think that was fucking weird and creepy too.

Joe Biden isn’t the aunt/uncle/grandpa to these babies and that behavior isn’t appropriate. He’s also got a long track record of touching other children inappropriately - there are fucking photomosaics of him sniffing young girls and grabbing their shoulders when the kids and parents are both visibly uncomfortable.

This behavior is in no way comparable to Trump and Vance having particular senses of humor and should absolutely not be excused or normalized as “acting like the grandpa he is.” You don’t put your mouth on or near other people’s children, and the fact that I have to commit this to text makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

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[tsevis]

Paris 2024: The Olympic hopefuls

A collection of digital mosaic portraits celebrating Olympic hopefuls through the fusion of athleticism and artistic expression, portraying their unwavering journey towards excellence.

Allow me to present my latest project related to Paris 2024. My previous endeavor aimed to capture athletes' dynamism and fervor across diverse Olympic Games sports. However, this project takes a different focus, centering on the core of the Games—the Olympic Hopefuls, featuring Jordan Chiles, the great American gymnast, Miltos Tendoglou, the Greek long jump world champion, Milly Tanner, the English international track cyclist, Oriane Bertone, the promising French rock climber, Noah Lyles, the American 100m and 200m champion and Fan Zhendong, the Chinese table tennis world number one. Last but not least Karolina Pelendritou, the Princess of the pool, Cyprus' most decorated athlete of all time. 

In this collection, I've embarked on a creative journey to encapsulate the unwavering determination exhibited by athletes as they strive to secure their place in the Paris 2024 Olympics. These digital mosaic portraits and their animated version blend a tapestry of photographs that authentically depict the spirit of Paris, interwoven with elements drawn from renowned French artistic movements like Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Rococo. Each illustration is thoughtfully adorned with ornaments and intricate designs, some embellished with gemstones, symbolizing the athletes' unwavering commitment to excellence. 'Paris 2024: Olympic Hopefuls' serves as a tribute to these remarkable individuals and a recognition of the seamless interplay between athleticism and artistry, echoing the journey toward the coveted medals that await the champions of tomorrow. 

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