Quoted
Tue Aug 31 2010
Post a comment- Ira Gershwin, Musician, They all laughed, from the 1937 film Shall We Dance.They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round,
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother when they said that man could fly,
They told Marconi wireless was a phony, it’s the same old cry…
Conference Announcement
Tue Aug 10 2010
Post a commentThe International Conference on Sustainable System and the Environment
March 23rd and 24th, 2011. American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)
[The] Committee is looking for original papers on topic addressing issues in sustainability research and education. The conference represents an excellent opportunity for participants to hear from researchers, academic experts, educators and practitioners about the latest developments in sustainable systems.
(More information and the Call for Papers can be found here.)
Speaking Engagement
Thu Jul 15 2010
Post a commentGeoff Parker
July 10th-17th, Beijing (China):
Integrated River Basin Management Workshop at Peking University.
(Sponsored by Research Councils UK; Organized by PKU and The University of Sheffield)
Giga-Panorama of Dubai
Tue May 11 2010
Post a commentAn old friend sent me a link to this amazing panoramic shot of Dubai, that stiches together a 45 gigapixel view of the area.
Oddly enough, I had been toying around with some panoramic shots of my own recently. There’s something about the desert I think that calls for them — probably the combination of the length and visibility of a largely pristine horizon. I’m still sorting through those photos for another project, but maybe I’ll post a few of them on here later.
Making Aerial Imagery Interactive
Sat May 1 2010
Post a commentCBC has a very simple user-controlled visualization up of the oil slick dispersion in the Gulf of Mexico over the last week:
“Drag your mouse to the left of the photograph to see the area on [Sunday] April 25. Drag it right to see the spill as it existed on Thursday [April 29th]. (NASA)”
Their implementation is in a SWF, but it probably would be quite doable in a variety of other ways. I think the thing I like the best is how simple and effective it is, so I’m reluctant to suggest adding complexity. It might however be interesting to see what information could be added or adjusted using, for instance, the vertical mouse movement or scroll wheel.
A simpler change I would make to the interface is to have moving the cursor from the right side of the image to the left move the image forward in time, rather than the reverse. This feels more intuitive, like flipping through a book, which is the closest analogy I can come up with.
