The trailer for the film Awaken by timelapse expert Tom Lowe has so many beautiful shots that it was hard to choose a thumbnail. Below are just a few: Read the rest
Trailer for AWAKEN is a feast of gorgeous imagery
Stormchaser films a new cloud type during spectacular sunset
Earlier this month, stormchasing photographer Mike Olbinski witnessed stunning and rare undulatus asperatus clouds roiling above the setting sun. 4K and headphones highly recommended. Read the rest
Final Stage: incredible graphical demo shows what you can do with 4 kilobytes of source code
Graphical demos created with severe code-length limitations sometimes betray the techniques used to fit a world into a few kilobytes: tessellating textures, featureless fractals, repetitive sequences, and so on. Final Stage, by 0x4015, is not one of those demos. [via]
Here it is rendered on a XEON x560 with a GTX 1070 video card and 24GB of RAM. Check out all the other uploads from the Revision 2017 demoparty.
Eidolon, by Poo-brain, won in the 64k category:
Watch water dissolve M&Ms into gorgeous patterns
Beauty of Science decided to dissolve M&Ms in water, and the result is surprisingly spectacular. It's like watching solar flares or the birth of a nebula. Be sure to watch in 4K! Read the rest
Breathtaking 4K timelapse of noctilucent clouds
Adrien Mauduit captured these noctilucent clouds above Denmark on not just one night, but two consecutive nights. He explains how he documented the unusual weather phenomenon: Read the rest
Take a trippy animated ride through Infinitude
Scott Portingale created the sumptuously animated and sound-designed film Infinitude, which starts with abstract mathematical shapes, then evolves into the creation of the universe. Read the rest
See this magical tilt-shift, time-lapse, 4K view of Niagara Falls
WATCH: Remarkable 4K timelapse of glow worm cave in NZ
New Zealand's Waitomo Glowworm Caves shimmer with a constellation of glow worms, and Jordan and Jenna from Stoked for Saturday got this gorgeous footage after a lot of trial and error. Read the rest
Timelapse 4K video: Thai street vendor makes ice cream rolls
YouTuber Max Lee got a great 4K grab of how street vendors make ice cream by hand in hot and humid Thailand. The secret: nitrogen. Read the rest
Space in ultra-high def: NASA releases 4K video from International Space Station
An unprecedented look at what it's like to live and work aboard the ISS.
Watch the northern lights captured in real time in 4K
This video is so beautiful. Crank the resolution way up to 4K and enjoy.
