The solution was to use pollen cells, which not only stood up to the pressures exerted upon them, but also had a "graphic" style of their own.
Initially Chinese hamster ovary cells were selected for use, but they weren't strong enough to withstand the process, dying "en masse, every time we went to check them", says Ward. But by collaborating with Frank Conrad, a "friend of a friend" who happened to be an immunologist at the University of Colorado, Denver, he was able to get to work. At first it looked as though the project would be unaffordable, with universities offering the required skills and equipment for £250,000. Simple though it sounds, his "cell-level typography" technique was far from easy. For the job – a cover piece for Creative Review magazine – he grew live cells in a mould, shaping them into the required letter. Typographer Craig Ward of New York media agency Grey has taken an organic approach to his latest commission – he's grown the work in a culture dish. The pterosaur models will take centre stage in June, welcoming visitors to the Royal Society's 2010 Festival of Science and Arts, which runs at the Southbank Centre, London, from the 25 June to 4 July. Recently discoveries have revealed that pterosaurs would have been covered in hair-like fibres, and this "fuzz" was incorporated into the models.
They were based on fossil records, but details such as colour and eyes were a little more difficult, requiring educated "leaps of faith", says Witton. The replicas have been made at the University of Portsmouth, UK, under the guidance of palaeobiologists Dave Martill, Mark Witton and Bob Loveridge. Pterosaurs dominated the skies at the time of the dinosaurs, from the late Triassic period to the end of the Cretaceous (220 to 65.5 million years ago). Five life-size models of the flying giants have been made for the event, the largest with a wingspan of more than 9 metres. R5 2400G - Noctua NH-D14 - Asus Prime X370-Pro - 16gb G.Pterosaurs are on their way to London to welcome visitors to the Royal Society's 2010 Festival of Science and Arts.
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You can add items with the little plus button on the bottom left and select your freshly baked App from there: Go to System Preferences>Users&Groups and select your User and then go to the Login Items Tab.
To make it update the wallpaper to the latest pic daily, you need to put the app into your login items. Now you can just double click it or use the run button at the top right to see if it works. I put it into the same folder the photos are saved in. This tells the which one the actual daily photo is as it is always the only one with that tag.įinally, the last block sets the background picture:Īnd so much for the App. The App just needs a place to save the downloaded photos.Īlso, don't forget to set 'astropix' as a tag in the filter block. I created a folder called 'APOD' in my documents Folder but you can put it wherever you want. Next you wanna just drag and drop the blocks from the left column into your workspace from top to bottom with the appropriate settings like this (There's also a search function at the top to find them faster):
It's basically for programming your mac in a way similar to those robotics learning kits where you have blocks that do something and you can queue them up in order of what you want to do. Automator is such a nice tool and I wonder why I never used it before. Here's just a very quick guide on what I messed around with today and find really cool.