Sunday, June 18, 2017

The Animated GIF

What Makes The GIF Great is a nice history of the GIF, invented 30 years ago!

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90129895/what-makes-the-gif-great

Worldmap Generator

Choose your projection, zoom, center, etc. with Worldmap Generator and see that indeed the world in 2D can look however you want it to look!

Friday, June 16, 2017

Making Air Visible!

Excellent video by Veritasium: Seeing the Invisible (embedded below). The NPR Skunk Bear showed something similar a couple of years ago: Seeing Thin Air (showing work by RIT students).

Thursday, June 15, 2017

One Year In The Life of Earth

One Year In The Life of Earth (by NASA) offers some nice videos from the EPIC camera on NOAA's DSCOVR satellite. Below is the simple animated GIF.


2016 Election by Precinct

Below is the MA map: this would be so much better with town lines as context! And: as an interactive map. Maps of the other states and the USA as a whole are at 2016 Presidential General Election Maps.

http://rynerohla.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/16-MA-Inverted.png

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Thursday, June 1, 2017

A 1.4-Billion-Pixel Map of the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor

Who knew that we have a federal agency called the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management? I'm not quite sure what they do, but they just released a stunning bathymetry grid for the Gulf of Mexico. Read more about in EOS: A 1.4-Billion-Pixel Map of the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor.