Archive for August, 2009

Comptabilité

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Monsieur M. Fiévet de l’Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA) de Namur a publié un cours d’introduction à la comptabilité qui s’adresse plus particulièrement aux étudiants de l’ESA mais qui est également accessible à tous les internautes.

Dream Bank

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

The Psychology Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, offers access to a collection of over 16.000 dream reports in English and 6.000 dream reports in German, coming from a variety of different sources and research studies, from people ages 7 to 74.

The reports can be analyzed using a search engine and statistical programs built into the DreamBank website. Several of the people who contributed dreams to the DreamBank wrote prefaces to their journals which are also available. A summary of the collection available for search is presented in the grid.

D. William Domhoff wrote a contribution “Fast Content Analysis Using the Internet” in 2004 based on the search engine. More recent findings have been published in Consciousness and Cognition (17, 1238-1247) in 2008 in the contribution “Studying Dream Content Using the Archive and Search Engine on DreamBank.net“.

3D data sculptures

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Today 3D sculptures can be created with 3D plotters and standard 3D modelling software. These tools allow digital artists to transform large data sets into a physical form.

~IDENTITÄT – The »Gestalt« of dig­ital identity

A recent project in this area has been done by Jonas Loh and Steffen Fiedler as a bachelor thesis at the Studiengang Interfacedesign of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany, with the help of the 3D Lab of the TU-Berlin. The project called ~IDENTITÄT – The »Gestalt« of dig­ital identity eval­uates how dig­ital identity is generated to determine pa­ram­e­ters on which a compa­ra­ble anal­yses of the dig­ital identity is pos­sible. The concept, the process and the results are published at the website www.digital-identities.com. Photos of the whole project are available at the flickr collection. The project was tutored by Prof. Boris Müller.

Other 3D sculpture projects are :