Guy puts an ant colony in his scanner, scans a picture each week.
Posted Jul 29, 2010, 11:20 PM UTC
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Um ... I'm confused.
Since when do ant colonies resemble Tim Burton movies?
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Conceptually very interesting. However, the execution of it was so so. Maybe timelapse would be more satisfying to watch (?)
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I've had it with those motherfucking ants in this motherfucking scanner.
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Props for the Infected Mushroom track.
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Everything went worse than expected...
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this is much cooler than I expected.
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Needs more nine inch nails.
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Did he have plants of some sort growing in there as well?
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pl[ANTS]
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$ sudo apt-get install ants
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What if, the earths crust was actually a giant microchip like this, and then ants made it how it is today O_O
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I'm not quite sure what's going on. Where are all the microchips from? The scanny bit (the strip presumably covered in CCD) of a scanner points away from the internals. Doesn't it? Also why all the panning about? And where are they meant to get food from. In conclusion this looks like it's actually probably CG or something. It's good CG, but why not call it CG?
I was thinking the same thing, plus if he took one scan a week for five years, that's only 260 scans. It doesn't seem like it should have taken that long to show if everything was on the up and up.
The images are too sharp too
I thought maybe he used a mirror on the inside lid of the scanner. I guess the panning around is to show things in detail and to make the whole thing longer.
Interesting theory but I don't think so.
It is definitely not CG. Since the card is unplugged, it looks like he constructed a small ant box with a computer chip inside it because it would look cool then put that on his scanner.