Infinity Imagined

Multicellular Organic Neural Network Lives in Nitrogen-Oxygen Atmosphere 270 K - 300 K Eats, Breathes, Thinks, Creates

[infinity-imagined]

Here’s a new visualization technology I created in 2021. This is the Luminous Cartographic Display: a physical 3D map with internal illumination that creates realistic renderings of terrain, day and night cycles, environmental phenomena, and data visualizations. The physical 3D map display renders ‘pixel art’ animations created in blender, combining GIS data, lighting specific to days of the year, satellite images, and animation created with physics sprites and manual pixel-by-pixel editing. The piece was designed and fabricated by Tactile Terrain (me, James Tyrwhitt-Drake) with assistance from Metrographics Art + Design. It features the area around Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, and is on display at the Waterton Visitor Centre if you want to visit it. It is the most complex 3D map I have created to date. If you are curious about this piece or my other cartographic artwork, check out TactileTerrain.ca

[spacethatneverwas]

Real space mission

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to “touch” the Sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the Sun’s atmosphere about 4 million miles from the surface.

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As always, prints of my artworks are available in my print shop at Artstation and at Displate.com

[chibinotan]

Nebulous Butterfly

[therealuniverse]

Westerlund 1 This is Westerlund 1, one of the largest open clusters of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Open Clusters are stars that all formed at about the same time, all of which are about the same distance from Earth, most likely formed from a single dense molecular cloud which in this case has now dissipated due to the flaring up of so many stars.

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[chibinotan]

Turbulent Stellar Nurseries

[noosphe-re]

May you live in an age of burning curiosity, an inferno for the inquisitive.

Ahmed Salman (via inthenoosphere)

[retroscifiart]

David Bergen - Shipwreck from the book The Flights of Icarus (1977) by Donald Lehmkuhl with Martyn and Roger Dean

[secretcinema1]

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Thomas Aquinas (via secretcinema1)

[obscvred]

Source | Photographer

[forgottengenres]

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Chuck Klosterman (via thatlitsite)

[ageofdestruction]

atmosphere over the pacific, photographed by goes-15, 16th & 17th january 2015.

15 frames over 45 hours. each frame is a composite of 3 infrared images: 1 showing cloud cover and height, and 2 showing sea surface temperature and water vapor.

image credit: noaa/nasa. animation: ageofdestruction.

[lazyyogi]

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Thich Nhat Hanh (via lazyyogi)

[maybe-itsmin000]

[thecalminside]

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (via thecalminside)

[libutron]

The beautiful Nodulose Necklace Star, Fromia nodulosa (Goniasteridae), lives on deeper reefs and is rarely photographed. This specimen was spotted in Kuredu, Maldives.

Photo credit: ©Ular Tikk

[claudemonet-art]

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet  (via thelittlephilosopher)

[opticallyaddicted]

[jesuisrempli]

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The Mystical World Of Mushrooms Captured In Photos

Most people consider mushrooms to be the small, ugly cousins of the plant kingdom, but theirs is  surprisingly beautiful and wonderful world waiting to be explored. These beautiful mushrooms, captured by enthusiastic nature photographers, are a far cry from the ones you find in the woods or your local grocery store.

Most mushrooms, as we know them, are actually just the reproductive structure of the fungus they belong to – their fungal networks expand far further underground, and some fungi don’t even sprout the sort of mushrooms that we’re used to seeing. In fact, depending on your definition of “organism,” the largest living organism in the world is a fungus – there’s a honey mushroom colony in Oregon that occupies about 2,000 acres of land! ( Bored Panda )