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Things 116: Cloud Phase Time-Lapse, 3D Map, Better Tube Map
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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.
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A simplistic but interesting data visualisation showing travel times from and to different parts of the tube network [...]
Things 20: Cake Division, Dinorun, Christian the Lion
(Originally sent July 2008)
This week’s film — one line reviews :
Hancock was like a TV mini-series compressed into 90 minutes, with the first half used to trick people into going to see it, and a plot that looks like it suffered from too many cooks.
Next Week’s film
Kung Fu Panda
Actually I saw this on IMAX [...]
Thing 19: The Beginning of Time, Cat game, Animal Friendship
(Originally sent June 2008)
This week’s film — one line review
Wanted was an extraordinary hotch-potch of the ridiculous and the sublime, and I highly recommend it to anyone that liked the look of the trailers. Incidentally, it now has 71% on rotten tomatoes, and I can’t help noticing that WALL-E is on 98%, but we have [...]