Well, she doesn’t, really.  This effect is all thanks to PhotoFunia, a website where you can implement your photo into some other pretty interesting photos.

Have you ever seen those pictures where someone puts someone’s face on, oh let’s say, a monkey?  Well usually you’d have to get some sort of software for that.  Well, not this time.

PhotoFunia has a nice variety of pictures to put your own photos on top of.  You can put your face on the monalisa, have your photo on a billboard or large city building, on a dollar bill, the cover of a magazine, in the hands of Paris Hilton….this list goes on and on.

The great thing is this:  It’s free and you don’t have to make an account!  All you really need to do is go to PhotoFunia.Com, choose an effect, upload a photo, and you’re pretty much done!  From there you can save it to your desktop or anywhere else on your hard drive, or you can have it hosted on ImageShack so you can embed it to your myspace, blog, or website!

Now the first time I used it, the app moved a little slow, but the second time, it worked great.  I think the first time, the website probably had alot of traffic or something.

At any rate, this is a fun, free, no-account-needed, web application that you can use to edit your photos in ways that can entertain your friends and family…or scare them away   Whatever the case, go to www.photofunia.com and you’ll be having fun in no time!

What Do You Think?
Do you know of any cool web applications that you’d like to share?  What are some photo’s you’ve created using PhotoFunia?  Got any questions?  Whatever you have to share with me, I wanna know about it.  Shoot me an e-mail at david@funkytower.com

Take it easy,
David Crandall

OE-CAKE! is demonstration software for 2D-based multi-physics simulation.
In a way similar to drawing images using paint software, users create objects and can see them move according to the laws of physics.
This software supports various physical materials with real life properties such as fluids, gases, rigid (hard) objects and elasticity (soft) objects as building blocks.
Users can combine these objects to create and play with more complex objects and mechanisms such as cars, gears and moving dolls. Users can also attach pictures and photos to objects and change their shape, break them apart, or melt them.  – OctaveEngine

Really, OECake is kind of a fun toy.  With it you can select properties like water, fire, etc, and set them on fire, pour them on a wall, and just do all sorts of things with it.  It’s kind of a “fluid simulator.”  It’s really hard to describe, so here’s a video I found on YouTube of someone using it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U8em-t6RKo

You can see them taking the different properties and drawing them as if they were using Paint, and then moving them around with their cursor.  One thing the video doesn’t show is if the machine you are using has an Accelerometer installed on it, like the MacBook, you can shake your machine and make the contents move around!  It’s truely interesting and fun! 

Here’s a list of the properties you can use:

1. Water
2. Wall
3. Rigid
4. Spring
5. Elastic
6. Brittle
7. Rigid Axis
8. Mochi
9. Rice
10. Powder
11. Gas
12. Viscous
13. Tensile
14. Dense
15. Light
16. Fuel
17. Fire
18. Heater
19. Cooler
20. Inflow
21. Outflow
22. Jet
23. Snow

Wow, that’s alot of properties you can use!  You can also import textures and backgrounds to mess with.  This seems odd, but this app actually makes Physics fun!  I can honestly see this app on the iPhone in the future, but we shall see.

Until then, if you’re like me and you enjoy fun little apps like this, go online to http://www.octaveengine.com/en_casual/oecake/ and get OECake!  Trust me, you could be sitting there for hours having fun with this thing.

What Do You Think?

Does OECake make physics fun or what?  Do you know of any cool apps that involve, or don’t involve, physics?  If you know of any cool apps, I want to know about it!  So send me an e-mail at david@funkytower.com

Take it easy,
David Crandall