Nvidia's insane AI painting tool
This is some truly amazing stuff. Nvidia's Canvas app lets you do a simple drawing and then they render it as a fully realized landscape thanks to AI/machine learning.
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Rijks Museum puts 700,000 paintings online, copyright free
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum (one of my favorites) has put over 700,000 digitized copies of its huge art collection online, and is making them available to reuse as public domain!
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Tibetan Book of Proportions for how to draw or display Budda
The Tibetan Book of Proportions is an eighteenth century manual that gives precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the Buddha and Bodhisattva figures
The Tibetan Book of Proportions is an eighteenth century manual that gives precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the Buddha and Bodhisattva figures. A standardized grid with numerical notations is used for both marking the measurements of the figures and for arranging the posture of the figures within a composition. Written in Newari script with Tibetan numerals, the book is likely to have been produced in Nepal for use in Tibet. It is presently held by the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
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The First Blue Pigment Discovered in 200 Years Is Finally Commercially Available
Living in the digital realm as much as I do, seeing a news story like this is shocking. I know about the absurdly deep black and the legal protection around it, but that is a matter of a material absorbing more light, and not of just being a color.
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A stunning origami samurai made from a single (large) piece of rice paper
Found via openculture.com
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