It’s a sensation, a feeling, most Irish people will have experienced at some time in their lives. It’s a saying we’ll all have heard by those in a delicate way on a Sunday or Monday morning. Eoin Whelehan’s visualization documents brilliantly the feelings associated with this experience.
(h/t broadsheet)
Researchers at the University of Washington and Google have stitched together fascinating time-lapse films based on large collections of online photos.
We introduce an approach for synthesizing time-lapse videos of popular landmarks from large community photo collections. The approach is completely automated and leverages the vast quantity of photos available online. First, we cluster 86 million photos into landmarks and popular viewpoints. Then, we sort the photos by date and warp each photo onto a common viewpoint. Finally, we stabilize the appearance of the sequence to compensate for lighting effects and minimize flicker. Our resulting time-lapses show diverse changes in the world’s most popular sites, like glaciers shrinking, skyscrapers being constructed, and waterfalls changing course.
The engadget article explains the basic process:
Here’s how it works: first, the researchers sorted some 86 million photos by geographic location, looking for widely snapped landmarks. Next, the photos were ordered by date and warped so that all had a matching viewpoint. Lastly, each photo was color-corrected to have a similar appearance, resulting in uniform time-lapse videos.
For more on the research and a PDF of the process, check out their project website at Time Lapse Mining from Internet Photos.
(h/t boingboing)
Vincent LaForet’s beautiful collection of photos on the nighttime sprawl that is America’s second largest city.
More at AIR: Los Angeles 10K.
(via broadsheet)
The relative scale of the Planets in our Solar System – as shown through fruits!
Graphic by Avi Solomon.
(h/t boingboing)
The folks over at HappyPlace have created a wonderful chart to indicate what cats and dogs want from their petting interaction. Some useful advice for all pet owners.
(via HappyPlace)
Rocket science in the 100 most frequently used words.
(via xkcd)
GlobalSecurity‘s striking comparison of Aircraft Carriers by country.
From GlobalSecurity.org: (my emphasis)
An aircraft carrier is a ship that is capable of operating fixed wing aircraft, including jump-jets such as the Harrier. America has nearly twice as many aircraft carriers – 20 – as the rest of humanity combined – 12 – and America’s aircraft carriers are substantially larger than almost all the other’s aircraft carriers. The Navy likes to call the big Nimitz class carriers “4.5 acres of sovereign and mobile American territory” — and all twenty American carriers of all classes add up to nearly 70 acres of deck space. Deckspace is probably a good measure of combat power. The rest of the world’s carriers have about 25 acres of deck space, approximately one third that of America’s [until 2011, this number was only 15 acres, but new Chinese and Italian vessels upped the total appreciably].
(h/t SunlightFoundation)
Over the past few weeks @Betfairpoker has been tweeting some of the key differences between different animals/insects etc.
The history of Earth in a single 24-hour clock image…puts the experience of the human race on earth into context.
(via exp.lore.com)
Peter Cox presents a short collection of time-lapse photography of Ireland. Titled ‘Between the Raindrops‘ it showcases how “showery weather can lead to some dramatic skies”.
Between the Raindrops from Peter Cox on Vimeo.
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