{"id":846,"date":"2011-01-28T20:22:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T00:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2011-04-05T22:04:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T02:04:33","slug":"the-third-the-seventh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/the-third-the-seventh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Third &#038; The Seventh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched the video below more than a dozen times over the past year.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a nearly fully computer graphics piece, entitled &#8220;The Third &#038; The Seventh&#8221;, made by one person, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdseventh.com\/\">Alex Roman<\/a> (AKA Jorge Seva):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/7809605\" width=\"500\"  height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt is, I think, the most beautiful piece of art I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen that was made during my lifetime.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just the technical merit, although there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plenty that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jaw dropping.  But even if was not CG, I would think it astonishing.  He has an eye for beauty, and an ability to show things that I, for one, otherwise wouldn&#8217;t see.  Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth watching in full screen, with headphones on.  If you have a projector and a good sound system, I recommend watching it that way. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7809605\">vimeo link<\/a>, where he has links to other videos which share some information about how he made it.  There&#8217;s lots of commentary about the video around on the web: I found <a href=\"http:\/\/motionographer.com\/2009\/08\/16\/alex-roman-thethirdtheseventh\/\">this interview<\/a> with Roman interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched the video below more than a dozen times over the past year. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a nearly fully computer graphics piece, entitled &#8220;The Third &#038; The Seventh&#8221;, made by one person, Alex Roman (AKA Jorge Seva): It is, I think, the most beautiful piece of art I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen that was made during my lifetime. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/the-third-the-seventh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Third &#038; The Seventh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}