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Architectural Projection Mapping is a relatively new art form, but it may give fireworks shows a run for their money in the outdoor nighttime entertainment department.

Using 3-D effects, motion graphics and choreographed music video artists are able to transform the surfaces of buildings and objects into unique, giant canvases for their animations. The effect can be stunning.

Here we've collected some of our favorite examples. Enjoy!

I tend to agree, in spirit, with Isaac Asimov when he wrote, “I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just an infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.” In fact, our brains, which evolved to make us run from lions on the African savanna, may not be constructed to penetrate the infinite veil of reality. We may need mathematics, physics, computers, brain augmentation, and even literature, art, and poetry to help us tear away the veils. For those of your readers who are about to embark on reading The Physics Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.