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autistickaitovocaloid

I don't have an interesting caption to add other than they're very cutes here.

#so cute. Hikari has a double denim going on #nice #toqger

oliwabiuuu

容器

#queue angels

doughkazoo

first Pitt fanart, kinda nervous

#immaculate no notes #the Pitt

rodimustar

unfinished cuz I'm lazy

#YES!!!!!!#The little star in it's eye really got me #I love the textures too.... would use this as a phone wallpaper #queue angels #Pacific rim

crazysodomite

eww 💢💢 yucky 💢💢

#why the long face etc etc #queue exorcist #they're so cool

madgear

#boy your hair looks like a cartoon cherry

motgarel

Saddest cops in Revachol

#queue angels #they untouched heads AOUGH #disco elysium

naomistares

a jinx i drew while ignoring uni... arcane is more important

#queue angels #this one fucking gets me she looks so cool #arcane

excdus

2am in Harajuku on Valentine’s Day, 2014.

(source)

#queue angels

miamaimania

“Untitled” (2014) by Nguyễn Hoàng Nam ☀ Child in purple áo dài claims her persimmon kingdom

#queue angels

impillian

white woman blast

#laugh rule

tropicash-deactivated20170103

#so pretty....so colors....

uhanekahiko

Polynesians did also rely on a form of a physical map called a stick chart, illustrating the specific wave and swell patterns surrounding different island chains. These were particularly helpful during cloudy conditions when the sun and stars were less useful. To navigate the Marshall Islands, the Marshallese represented ocean swell patterns using parts of coconut fronds and shells as islands. Like a subway map, they don’t so much represent distances as they do relationships. The complex and decorative stick charts were often only understood by the person who made them. They were memorised before a voyage by the pilot who would lie on the floor of a canoe to get a sense of swell movement and often lead a squadron of 15 or more boats.

baddestvenus-in-virgo

sometimes I am just amazed at how my ancestors managed to navigate the entire Pacific Ocean with these. knowledge that was nearly lost and is being re-learned.

gamebird

AH! I'd heard of these, but this is the first time I've come across pictures.

randomnoteforfuturereference

Clarification: the Marshallese are indeed Pacific Islanders. However they are not Polynesian but rather Micronesian (which also includes groups like Palauans, Kiribati, Yapese, and CHamoru).

Here's a map of the different Austronesian groups and the hypothesized way they spread.

Stick charts are not only a demonstration of the skill of oceanic navigation by Pacific Islanders, but of the diversity in how those skills manifest among the different groups.

hillnerd

What I love about these is that they're showing a water wave phenomena that western naval navigators often did not make charts of, or have as deep of awareness of: wave reflection, diffraction and refraction patterns.

Their charts allow navigators to be familiar with the wave patterns, so they can navigate by waves and understand how near they are to atolls, islands, land etc. without need the usual cues for navigating.

For a time, scientists and scholars did not appreciate how accurate these were- but eventually they've come to realize that these are incredibly accurate teaching devices that made them some of the most acute navigators of the ocean who were very precisely and accurately documenting wave patterns better than even most modern navigators.