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OTTER

https://mission-otter.herokuapp.com/

Orbital Twitter Traffic Explorer and Repeater is a citizen science device mounted to the International Space Station. OTTER monitors twitter traffic in realtime within a 50 mile radius of the station's exact coordinates.

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enough for today

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a little scared of what I don’t totally understand

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Not at all what I set out to accomplish.

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little tweaks - thinking about cells and science fiction

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I’ve stared at this too long and have a green dot burned into my vision.

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keep warm!

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got the gif to loop seamlessly, next is to make it more interesting

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something for while you wait

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all I want for xmas is to see a human go to mars

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same algorithm from before, expressed as minimally as possible. not flashy, but makes visualizing the motion easier. 

using sine and cosine to generate points and then distorting the points with perlin noise. I map the points to x/y coordinates and rgb values, creating perfect loops.

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same algorithm with a few tweaks 

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all figured out

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not sure how I made this and may take a few hours to make it again

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try it for yourself

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test it yourself

https://www.darekbittner.com/aura/

lmk if it works or not

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