Imagery

A mechanical computer for directing antiaircraft fire was at the heart of these brothers' pioneering computer-animated imagery.

And the question is�what the heck's a hectometer? Video after the jump.

An inventive YouTube user shows that it doesn't take cinematic digital effects to create the morphing inkblot mask of Alan Moore's nasty antihero, Rorschach. Video after the jump.

What's behind the starry flap? Follow the jump to see today's scene, the latest in a collection of space imagery compiled by Alan Taylor for the Boston Globe's photo blog, The Big Picture.

Freddie Wong's deft short captures the hands-high stance, the angular gait, and the ragdoll morbidity of the first-person shooter genre. Video after the jump.

The movie that inspired science fiction cinema offers the first making-of pictures in the history of the genre.

Astonishing caverns near the Ascraeus volcano on Mars aren't the holes left by Frank Herbert's sandworms, but they may evince past volcanic activity.

In space, no one can hear you munch your popcorn. Video after the jump.

A controversial radio-controlled flight over Manhattan brings a measure of joy and wonder to the New York City skyline.

This flat-pack pinhole camera doubles as a postcard to offer something like a photo-sharing snail-net. But the sentiment that motivates its ad campaign is bizarre.