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SWC Neuromorph.org importer for Blender 14 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
Neuromorph.org is a website with a huge database of neuron morphologies, which can be downloaded in the SWC-format. As I wanted to display those neurons in Blender and could not find any importer, I w...
How Animation is Made 26 Jun 2013 | 01:19 pm
When you are interested and familiar with animation projects, most of the things Turi Scandurra has to say may sound familiar to you. But nevertheless, it is quite intriguing to see which thoughts and...
Canon DSLRs can now shoot in RAW 4 Jun 2013 | 12:31 am
Amazing, Canon DSLRs like the 5D Mark III but even the 550D can now shoot in RAW format thanks to Magic Lantern. 14 bit Magic Lantern RAW video (and RAW HDR video) on 5D2 from Africashot on Vimeo.
Free eBook: Experiments in Matlab 21 Mar 2013 | 05:34 pm
What a great eBook for learning how to solve problems in Matlab: Experiments in Matlab. It covers topics like Google Page Rank, Game of Life, Sudoko, Shallow Water Equations any many more. A perfect t...
Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation 15 Mar 2013 | 02:39 pm
Nowak, Martin A. 2006: Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation, Science 314: 1560–63 This paper provides a very easy to understand mathematical approach for the evolution of cooperation. Cooperati...
The evolution of modular neural networks 27 Feb 2013 | 01:27 am
A nice discussion is going on in the NEAT User Group about the mechanism that lead to modular (artificial) neural networks, motivated by the recently published paper The evolutionary origin of modular...
Scale2 20 Feb 2013 | 12:39 am
Explore the new Scale of the Universe from Joe Hanson on Vimeo. The Power of Ten is an absolute classic, maybe the first video that shows a continues zoom across all scales of the universe. Thanks to ...
Principles of Brain Evolution 16 Feb 2013 | 04:07 pm
I recently got the book Principles of Brain Evolution and can recommend it to everyone interested in evolutionary mechanisms that lead to the complexification of natural neural networks. The author wr...
The Centrifuge Brain Project 5 Feb 2013 | 01:30 am
What a fantastic documentary. Truly inspiring vehicles created by the filmmakers.
Polychronization: spnet.m in Python 25 Jan 2013 | 01:35 am
I am still working on neural networks with heterogenous conduction delays, inspired by Izhikevich’s work about Polychronization. As I couldn’t find a Python implementation of his script file spnet.m (...