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“An “oops, all anomalies” world map, where all outlier highlights are overlaid, making a confusing jumble of artifacts and event traces.”
Via https://everything.happens.horse/@vruba/111071685142760156
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August 3, 2015, as captured by the Himawari-8 weather satellite, is now the most beautiful day ever, and you can live it over, and over, and over, and over for ∞.
So stop what you’re doing and go to glittering.blue right now* to view the full version.
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*Warning: massive video file, not guaranteed to work on mobile, may cause moments of existential paralysis and paralyzing awe due to overview effect. You probably have questions about how this was made and what it shows. Creator Charlie Lloyd has your answers.
I really love Tim Maly’s account of Mapbox’s process. It shows us the power of combining computation power with human creativity in the production of perception. Even maps, are socially and mathematically constructed. Here’s a large chunk from his article, which should be read in its…
At Mapbox we’re big on show and tell. Every hire gets a tour of each team’s projects, so that they understand a day in the work of everyone at the company. I have a constantly evolving half-hour speech that explains what my closest coworkers do, where our data comes from, how we like to work, how it fits into the company’s direction, how we see the industry, and so on. Even though Tim’s article was written for a lay audience, and is two years out of date now, I’ve brought it up in every show and tell so far. It’s that good.
Even maps, are socially and mathematically constructed.
I would say especially maps. The clearest example of this is OpenStreetMap. If it bugs you when people use postmodern jargon to say that our shared pictures of reality are made in shared ways, look at OSM. It’s a concrete example of how meaning is collected, reconciled, and constantly but productively squabbled over.
I went to Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog: The Dutch and Belgian villages that are really just one village divided by a complex border into 30 different enclaves. It turned out to be pretty boring. So I’ve blogged about it.
Time-lapse Mining from Internet Photos
Computational photography project from the University of Washington can create time-lapse animations of popular locations using collections of photographs online over a period of time:
We introduce an approach for synthesizing time-lapse videos of popular landmarks from large community photo collections. The approach is completely automated and leverages the vast quantity of photos available online. First, we cluster 86 million photos into landmarks and popular viewpoints. Then, we sort the photos by date and warp each photo onto a common viewpoint. Finally, we stabilize the appearance of the sequence to compensate for lighting effects and minimize flicker. Our resulting time-lapses show diverse changes in the world’s most popular sites, like glaciers shrinking, skyscrapers being constructed, and waterfalls changing course.
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Beijing Traffic Control
SMAP satellite separating over Earth from the Delta II launch vehicle - 31 jan 2015
In September 2013, two military helicopter pilots transporting equipment from Tiksi, a port city in northeast Russia, to the New Siberian Islands spotted a previously unknown island in the Laptev S...
Science Art: #11268 (Small, Unidentified Insect On the Exoskeletal Surface Of A Dragonfly) http://ift.tt/1wJJZvb
(via Abstract Parisian Rooftops Photographed by Michael Wolf | Colossal)
Aghlaghlaghl. Michael Wolf makes even me appreciate architecture.
I don’t use Tumblr much lately but I do write a weekly newsletter.
A few years ago, when the media was reporting about “the endangered state of California,” we screen-printed some shirts with the bear from the flag of the state of California on them. The shirts were gray and the ink we used matched the color of the shirts making the bears intentionally difficult to see. We followed the shirts with a reproduction of the Bear Flag using a gray-blue fabric for each component and allowing the edges of each component to fray. It was a reminder that our state is always a blank slate and that as citizens we have a choice in what our state is and what it can and will be.
That flag led to a series of flags that do some or all of the following, but are still recognizable as the California flag:
rearrange or reposition the components (star, bear, ground, stripe)
recolor or retexture (through fabric choices) the components
resize or re-proportion the components overall or in relation to each other
remove components
use anagrams of CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC
reproduce another historic California flag
When we travel and when people visit us in our home, the flags are often shared and a conversation ensues about the diverse past, present, and imagined futures of our state. People play with the components of the flag and we inevitably create new flags as a result of their ideas. We call this project Californias, a conversation about our collective hopes and dreams for the place that we have called home for over twenty-two years. These are parallel Californias, Parallelifornias that coexist in time and space. They are not a call for splitting the state that we love for all its contrasts, its imperfections, and its beauty. It’s exactly the opposite, an appreciation for our California, simultaneously one and infinite.
We have several more flags in the works and we’re always on the lookout for ideas. If you would like to be part of this conversation, please contact us with your thoughts. Last year, Sophia and Enzo made a Scratch project that allows you to move around the components of the flag. It’s not the same as sketching or playing with fabrics, but if you make something you like with it, please take a screenshot and share it with us.
—Grecolaborativo
(via Rosetta’s Lander Facing An Unexpected Comet Shape: A Double Nucleus)
Second Microconfluence Groundtruthed in Joshua Tree National Park
Second Microconfluence Groundtruthed in Joshua Tree National Park
I was in the gym after work on Thursday and realized I’d rather be hiking. I decided to find the minute-microconfluence nearest the entrance of Joshua Tree National Park, which turns out to be N34 6′ x W116 15′ or 34.10 x -116.25. (Altimeter seems to be broken most of the time these days, so I downloaded DMS converter between DMS and decimal coordinates.)
It looked about a mile from the park…
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As the incredibly powerful microscope zooms in, it goes from showing an amphipod (a type of shell-less crustacean), to a diatom (a type of algae) that’s on the amphipod, to a microscopic bacterium that’s on the diatom that’s on the amphipod. It’s life, on life, on life:
GIF Made with Electron Microscope Zooms In On Life, On Life, On Life
