An important reminder that the universe has three spatial dimensions and is best appreciated with all three engaged*.
*engage fourth as needed for EXTREME MODE
Source: cozydark
Eastward wind velocity is plotted at a variety of pressure levels. The animation goes with decreasing pressure, so increasing altitude. Things to notice:
- The jet stream behaving like an ocean wave breaking
- Disparities between the hemispheres
- There is a point directly above Chicago where the air stops trying to push people over
Just look at all this solar energy potential!
maps via National Renewable Energy Labratory
A little experiment rotating the Space Needle using Google Maps and GIFs.
Source: chriseatondotnet
prosthetic knowledge: WebCamMesh
it’s friday, you might want to spend some time playing with this fun interactive webcam toy
Fun online webcam toy turns your visual feed into a trippy 3D mesh, running on HTML5 in your browser - by Felix Turner:
WebCamMesh is a HTML5 demo that projects webcam video onto a WebGL 3D Mesh. It creates a ‘fake’ 3D depth map by mapping pixel brightness to mesh vertex Z…
Source: caucasianmale
- and here is an animated gif of a nuclear blast -
(via tripthelightfantastik)
Source: echostream
