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Things 116: Cloud Phase Time-Lapse, 3D Map, Better Tube Map
Video
Point a camera at the sky, create a time lapse video of the clouds. Do the same thing every day of the year. Play back all the videos simultaneously in a grid. Voilà: a kind of phase-diagram visualisation, with seconds representing minutes and space representing seasons. Brilliant.
More detail here. Via Data Pointed.
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This is apparently pretty [...]
Things 49: Galaxy Rising, Tube Time Visualisation, Back Flip Variation
(Originally sent May 2009)
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Time lapse of the stars at night – be sure to watch to the end to see the Milky Way rising:
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.
Link
A simplistic but interesting data visualisation showing travel times from and to different parts of the tube network [...]
Things 100: Spaceship Earth, Fake Hacking, List, Scientific Method, Owlbears
It’s Things 100. Time for some particularly epic Things.
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I remember reading (in Critical Path, lent to me by John) that Buckminster-Fuller felt it was very difficult to watch a sunset or sunrise and intuitively apprehend that what you see is due to the earth turning – but that if we could succeed at doing so, [...]
Things 42: Baby Chaos, Gigapan, Energy Forecast
(Originally sent March 2009)
Movies
I saw and enjoyed Watchmen. I think having already read the graphic novel helped a lot, but it is certainly an interesting bunch of things to see on a screen in any case. Despite an unhealthy obsession with being true to the graphic novel (I personally think changes do need to be made [...]