The Double Food Pyramid

The newly formed Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition unveiled a new food pyramid last week, showing the environmental costs of the more familiar-looking food pyramid. No real surprise, then, that the inverted environmental food pyramid illustrates how the most environmentally-friendly foods also tend to be the healthiest.

via www.barillacfn.com
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Staircase User Analysis

This infographic made by Brian Jeffcock graphic disgner from Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax. The project is to study staircase users and try to improve the experience in an attempt to get more people using the staircases in office buildings. Project is still in its early form, but he liked this infographic so its coming up on its own. check back in a month or so for the rest of the project!.

You can find more of Brian Jeffcock creative work from behance.

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MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos

Three researchers (Arjun Jain, Thorsten Thorm¨ahlen, Hans-Peter Seidel and Christian Theobalt) at Germany’s Max Planck Institute have developed MovieReshape, a software program that can alter the images of people on the film in order to change their body type.

Abstract: A system for quick and easy manipulation of the body shape and proportions of a human actor in arbitrary video footage. The approach is based on a morphable model of 3D human shape and pose that was learned from laser scans of real people. The algorithm commences by spatio-temporally fitting the pose and shape of this model to the actor in either single-view or multi-view video footage. Once the model has been fitted, semantically meaningful attributes of body shape, such as height, weight or waist girth, can be interactively modified by the user. The changed proportions of the virtual human model are then applied to the actor in all video frames by performing an image-based warping. By this means, we can now conveniently perform spatio-temporal reshaping of human actors in video footage which we show on a variety of video sequences.

The software is still in development, and will not be officially debuted until Siggraph, the computer graphics conference in Seoul, South Korea that takes place in December.

The software will save costs in any instance where special effects can be employed, including in commercials, where one ad could be filmed, then the actor's body-type could be manipulated to meet local "standards of beauty".

For more information read reaearch paper (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 6.6 MB).

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This Is How Sausage Is Made

It may have been Otto Von Bismarck who first said that "laws are like sausages; it is better not see them being made." Regardless of whether Bismarck was the saying's originator, he's probably right. However, in the spirit of our recent flood of how-meats-are-made posts, allow us to direct you to the following (possibly offensive) infographic.

via www.foodcoupons.net

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NASA badges hit Gowalla

NASA is teaming-up with location-based service Gowalla in an effort to “bring users one small step closer to the universe.” Under the deal, NASA-related information and virtual items will populate Gowalla — among the virtual items that will be included are moon rocks, a NASA patch, a spacesuit and a space shuttle.

via www.intomobile.com

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