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Alex Roman created this wonderful, completely animated film named The Third & The Seventh. This is truly a piece of art.
After watching this I wonder when an average computer will be able to render pictures and animations as realistic as these in real time.
Watch the film in HD or take a look at some stills [...]

The geolocation app to identify the geographical source of an IP address or host name GeoMapLookup got a new mini map for its iPhone version. It is zoomable and cycles through the most important zoom levels (with a nice CSS animation) by simply tapping on the map. The button to open iPhone’s integrated Google Maps [...]

Spacializer is a flash animation of slowly moving clouds of different colors by Sébastien Chevrel, an artist, designer and programmer focusing on interactive media.
The animation itself creates a faint background noise when left alone. Moving your mouse cursor above different colors and the spots where different colors mix results in changing sounds all very spherical. [...]

Found via digg because of its 3D menu Screenvader’s flash-based site had a lot more to offer: Interactive graphics and random audiovisual animations using vector graphics, images and short video sequences of Looping Housewife’s Duties. If you thought The Ring’s video sequence was scary take a look at Easy to Open; fullscreen, in the dark, [...]

Dear Steve,
I’m impressed with your recent introduction of the iPhone. Congratulations on keeping it (almost) secret for so long. Instead of sleeping I’ve watched your keynote the same night and played with all those nice animations on the iPhone pages. My current Sony Ericsson phone now feels like my granny’s landline phone.
You’ve proven once again [...]

Kiwi! by Dony Permedi.
tags: animation, cliff, Dony Permedi, flying, Kiwi, short animation

Imagining the Tenth Dimension is a book by Rob Bryanton.
The average person has barely gotten used to the idea of there being four dimensions: how can we possibly imagine the tenth?
… asks the author.
Gladly his website contains a flash animation which helps you understand the 10th dimension and every dimension on it’s way.
tags: 10th dimension, [...]