Douglas N. Arnold and Jonathan Rogness at University of Minnesota provide an explanation for Moebius transformations that is elegant and clear, with the rare but crucial “ah-ha” moment. I get it.
Living in monospace type will make you a connisseur. Inconsolata is one of the best I’ve seen. The curves are lovely, and the effect clean and legible. See the attached preview image.
Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. Google Tools is hosting an amazing visualization of per capita income against life expectancy. Animation + clear visualization = crazy delicious.
Ten thousand years from now, the last remaining momument of the U.S. military-industrial complex could well be the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. And it will be marked by an elaborate keep-out sign. Planners building underground storage for radioactive military waste hope to develop a universal warning system that will communicate its message to future societies, regardless of language, custom or even species.
Dreamlines is an attempt to visualize dreaming as a process. Provide the site a few keywords from your dream, and Dreamlines fetches the Google Image results for those words. Instead of displaying the results, the images are used to alter the vector of 1500 autonomous particles, whose trail composes the image you’re shown when the process is complete. Confused? Try reading the official explanation instead. [via Info Aesthetics]
I'm the Chief Technology Strategist for the Red Hat US Public Sector group, an open source and free culture advocate, a picky drinker, an amateur aesthete, and a dog enthusiast.
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I'm the Chief Technology Strategist for the Red Hat US Public Sector group, an open source and free culture advocate, a picky drinker, an amateur aesthete, and a dog enthusiast.
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