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Linkpost: Europeana 2025 videos
A must watch for anyone in the cultural heritage sector
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Linkpost: Botticelli v Warhol – 2025 Cultural Heritage Conference in Florence
IP Kat (which is very much the blog to follow on legal news regarding so called intellectual property) published a 2 part guest post summarizing this conference in Florence: Day 1 Day 2
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Linkpost: IIIF 3D spec released
Read more in Thomas Flynn’s newsletter: https://nebulousflynn.substack.com/p/interoperable-accesible-portable?publication_id=2123354&post_id=166050797&isFreemail=true&r=1r7u5&triedRedirect=true
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Linkpost: 10 years of pomological watercolors
10 years ago, Parker Higgins called for the publishing of a collection of pomological watercolors, click through for the details (but this is pretty famous in my corner of the internet): https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors What struck me while reading the 10-year-anniversary post was this quote: Through a handful of FOIA requests I’d learned that the images had…
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In-person demo at Casa nel Parco
We’ve been part of Officine On Off since October 2024, and last week we participated in their annual festival. There were games, music, and plenty of community feeling. We wanted to bring our A-game, so we even bought a roll-up, which sadly didn’t arrive in time due to a strike. We had: Despite the scorching…
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Our first in-person installation
This Tuesday our first in-person installation will be inaugurated. https://cultura.comune.parma.it/evento/it-IT/Parma-Liberata.aspx We created an immersive installation in the main room of the museum exhibit, in which the day of liberation takes life through its original footage. Come visit us before June 26th to experence it! As a bonus, here’s how we brough the video-projectors to the…
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Basic sounds for a multi-platform game
For the 2025 edition of the BCC Innovation Festival, we’re creating a little game, that will act as a sort of on-boarding for people looking to apply. In this game, a friendly robot will ask the player to solve some riddles and find some objects. This must not interfere with the audio stream, as users…
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We’re on the local newspaper
The Gazzetta di Parma, which is arguably the oldest newspaper in continuous operation in the world, ran an article about us and about the BCC Arte & Cultura project. Big thanks to the journalist, who did a great job in getting our ramblings into a coherent and understandable form!
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Weird pseudoscience on YouTube Shorts – a debunking
Debunking a YouTube video on the Alhambra
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New mesh reduction tools
Holo Lab released this new Blender add-on that does a pretty job at reducing most photogrammetry models: https://github.com/HoloLabInc/ModerateWeightReductionTools It does fail on the more topologically challenged ones, but that is to be expected. As an example this 25MB model: Was reduced to this, which is just 295kB. I did remove the black background by hand,…