{"id":1451,"date":"2003-09-17T23:45:39","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T03:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/17\/way-beyond-lasers\/"},"modified":"2003-09-17T23:45:39","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T03:45:39","slug":"way-beyond-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/17\/way-beyond-lasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Way Beyond Lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1145'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"185\" height=\"210\">\n<div align=\"justify\">      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/liteshow.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"275\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"10\">\n<p>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"328\">\n<p>&quot;SonicVision,&quot; which opens Oct. 3 at the Hayden<br \/>\n        Planetarium in New York, is 35 minutes of soaring, churning and immersive<br \/>\n        visualizations set to<br \/>\n        a thumping score of techno-electronica and contemporary rock mixed by<br \/>\n        the recording artist Moby. A recent test screening revealed vast, surreal<br \/>\n        three-dimensional visions that morphed back and forth from the purely<br \/>\n        abstract &#8211; a kind of kinetic, cosmic tie-dye &#8211; to whirling wheeled machines,<br \/>\n        seas of blinking human eyes, architectural forms and optical puns. All<br \/>\n        of it is computer-generated and none of it involves lasers.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the wow factor of the three-year-old planetarium, which replaced<br \/>\n        the original 1935 building, is supplied by a supercomputer that, among<br \/>\n      other attributes, harnesses 118 microprocessors. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/18\/technology\/circuits\/18plan.html?ex=1379217600&amp;en=680ec6082b390ed5&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\">from<br \/>\n          the New York Times<\/a>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;SonicVision,&quot; which opens Oct. 3 at the Hayden Planetarium in New York, is 35 minutes of soaring, churning and immersive visualizations set to a thumping score of techno-electronica and contemporary rock mixed by the recording artist Moby. A recent test &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/17\/way-beyond-lasers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}