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The Science Channel aired an intriguing documentary on September 2, 2008, "The Secret Towers of the Himalayas". The hour long documentary chronicled the mapping and dating of an estimated 600 stone towers
scattered throughout Tibet by Frederique Darragon and Michel Peissel between 1998 and 2003. Carbon dating showed that the towers are between 500 and 1,200 years old.
Who built these towers and why is it a mystery.
The ancient manuscripts of the Buddhist monks in the area do not mention the towers. The indigenous people of the region have no written history and, because of their isolation, there is little communication between villages. Often the dialects from one valley to the next is so diverse as to be a different language. Darragon and Peissel assume that this isolation and the lack of a written language may have been a major factor in the lost of the towers' history.
There are mentions of the towers, however, by Chinese scholars late in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in descriptions of kingdoms that were thought to be only legends. Darragon found that many of the villages where the towers are located bear the same names as these kingdoms.
One and Seven WTC,a NYC subway map,and a train's handrail. I'm back here on my original page. I figured how to get back.Sorry about the runaround..I ran around too :-) You can comment here from now on.Thank you for your patience.Your viewership is much appreciated!
The Sun's axis of rotation varies in relation to the solar North pole over the course of a year. Interesting article in Sky at Night magazine about using freeware programs "Helio" and "Tilting Sun" to measure the tilt and overlay a grid for any solar image taken at a particular time. 0-180 line is true North-South and on the 30th September 2017, the axial tilt (P0) was 25,93 degrees.
There is also variation on the forward tilt of the Sun over the year. You can see more grid lines at the North Pole than the South in this instance. The angle of tilt is given as B0 and varies between plus and minus 7 degrees over the year.
The article also quoted the Mount Wilson Solar Seeing Scale - there was good seeing on the day this image was taken - probably a 4:
4: Sun is sharp for more time than it is fuzzy. Solar granulations visible for most of the time. Limb motion and resolution are in the 1-2 arcsecond range.
Equinox ED 120mm scope with Baader Herschel wedge
ZWO ASI174 MM cooled to 14c
TPE class 68 locos 68 032 'Destroyer', on the left, and 68 024 'Centaur' sit in the sun at Scarborough. Visible on the right is a lovely old tiled map of the North Eastern Railway.
The class 68s will soon be entering service on Trans Pennine Express services to York, Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool.
Day 197 of 365. Taken with iPhone camera+2 app in RAW. Tone mapping and editing with Affinity Photo.
First attempt at a disc-to-heart conformal mapping (e-marmotte kind of asked for it).
The original picture is here.
The mapping is very approximate as the detail on mapping isn't as good as I would like , so approx 200 metres or so !!! ..... but if on the trail , the clump is on the left near , top of footpath slope , near a bend to come back to Anderton Marina
Finally finished with school so now I have time to go out.
I'm just trying out some manual tone mapping as an alternative to the usual boring HDR stuff... I like it... it takes considerably longer. However, it is much more flexible!! I'm not quite down with the technique yet unfortunately.
On a rainy day in Long Beach British Columbia.
One of the most compelling sights in Jaipur, India is the Jantar Mantar, a Unesco world heritage site. Completed in 1734 by prince Jai Singh II, the founder of the city, it is an astrological observatory. The structures, like the one pictured, are used as instruments to map the heavens, and the world's largest sundial is part of the complex. Photo by Dave.
Nos intoxicamos siempre con el color, con las palabras que hablan del color, y con el sol que hace brillante a los colores.
André Derain
12.23.2006
Camera: Canon EOS 1D Mark II
Exposure: 1/250 sec
Aperture: f/14
Focal Length: 24 mm
ISO Speed: 160
Who shares their images with the world? This map of Flickr activity around the globe starts to give us an answer.
When they're not mapping zombies, Mark Graham and the team at the Oxford Internet Institute, are undertaking even more serious research into the state of the internet - this map is part of that work.
Using Flickr's API, they mapped every geotagged picture on Flickr by downloading the count of photographs in every 0.5 x 0.5 degree latitude-longitude square on the Earth's surface.
As might be expected, the largest concentrations of photographs can be found in some of the world's most populated places.
Images are an important form of knowledge that allow us to develop understandings about our world. Flickr is the world’s most used and most popular public repository of photographs and currently hosts over five billion images. This map reveals the global geographic distribution of geotagged images on the platform, and thus reveals the density of visual representations and locally depicted knowledge of all places on our planet.
University of Oxford
link to the page : here
Terra Incognita To Australia. By the National Library of Australia..
Just lost myself in the catalogue of the “Mapping Our World” exhibition at the NLA 7 November 2013 - 10 March 2014.
“Lose Yourself in the World's Greatest Maps”
Read all about Pelsaert, the VOC and the wreck of the "SCHIP BATAVIA"
see p132...135
Wandering around the books like this…
vimeo.com/crestpictures/bookcase
see a few good maps here...
www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~31935~...
Jeremy Douglass and Lev Manovich, 2009.
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Data:
The covers of every issue of Time magazine published from 1923 to summer 2009.
Total number of covers: 4535.
The large percentage of the covers included red borders. We cropped these borders and scaled all images to the same size to allow a user see more clearly the temporal patterns across all covers.
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Timescale:
1923-2009.
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Mapping:
Time covers appear in order of publication (i.e., from 1923 to 2009), arranged in a grid layout (left to right and top to bottom).
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Mapping 4535 Time covers into a grid organized by publicatoon date reveals a number of historical patterns. Here are some of them:
Medium: In the 1920s and 1930s Time covers use mostly photography. After 1941, the magazine switches to paintings. In the later decades the photography gradually comes to dominate again. In the 1990s we see emergence of the contemporary software-based visual language which combines manipulated photography, graphic and typographic elements.
Color vs. black and white: The shift from early black and white to full color covers happens gradually, with both types coexisting for many years.
Hue: Distinct “color periods” appear in bands: green, yellow/brown, red/blue, yellow/brown again, yellow, and a lighter yellow/blue in the 2000s.
Brightness: The changes in brightness (the mean of all pixels’ grayscale values for each cover) follow a similar cyclical pattern.
Contrast and Saturation: Both gradually increase throughout the 20th century. However, since the end of the 1990s, this trend is reversed: recent covers have less contrast and less saturation.
Content: Initially most covers are portraits of individuals set against neutral backgrounds. Over time, portrait backgrounds change to feature compositions representing concepts. Later, these two different strategies come to co-exist: portraits return to neutral backgrounds, while concepts are now represented by compositions which may include both objects and people – but not particular individuals.
The visualization also reveals an important “metapattern”: almost all changes are gradual. Each of the new communication strategies emerges slowly over a number of months, years or even decades.
Edition 2022 - Bright Brussels
Frequences - Rencontres Audiovisuelles
This 5-minute video mapping on the facade of the Maison de la Radio is a fresco of sounds that explores the various aspects of radio broadcasting.
It is made up of three movements: the first symbolises the start of the broadcast, with the signal crackling and the beats gradually taking shape. This abstract sound material is materialised on the building through waves and lines. The second movement enriches the fresco with figurative sound matter: voices and music emerge, they blend and disrupt each other, and they merge into a chaotic whole. The image follows this chaos, with organic shapes appearing and disappearing. The third movement is built around clear sounds and ends in a musical climax. All these elements come together in a harmonious, masterful piece of mapping art.
Jules HUVIG - Creation and animation
Jules Huvig graduated from SUPINFOCOM Valenciennes in 2012 and started his career in advertising, as a 3D graphic designer. He then joined the company Nie Wiem for the creation of a digital scenography. In 2017, he completed the video mapping course of Rencontres Audiovisuelles and he participated in a workshop with Romain Tardy. From location scouting to script writing, from production to broadcasting, Jules masters the entire production chain.
Hamza MRABET - Animation
Hamza Mrabet is a visual artist who has been exploring 3D computer graphics for almost a decade. He graduated with a Master's degree in animation cinema and 3D special effects, and works as a director and media supervisor at Rencontres Audiovisuelles. He is also a VJ in the Hauts-de-France region, he performs on the Drum & Bass scene and has diversified his portfolio by also participating in electro events. His visual creations are characterised by a modern and minimalist style.
Simon LEBON - Animation
Simon is a versatile graphic designer who has specialised in 3D computer graphics since 2008, and has been involved in mapping since 2012. A fan of procedural and generative animation, his technique and creativity offer the public unique and contemporary shows combining sound and lighting.
Geraldine KWIK - Composition and sound design
Geraldine Kwik has been playing the piano since the age of four and is trained in many tools and methods in the field of media and sound. She has a Master's degree in interactive media, and for many years she worked as a composer and sound designer for films, series, video games and commercials. In parallel, she launched her own music series. Today, backed by more than 10 years of experience in artistic installations in the Hauts-de-France region, she works as an artist-musician at Rencontres Audiovisuelle.
The festival of lights in Brussels
Bright Brussels, the festival of lights returns to brighten up the capital this winter!
Four evenings and three routes will take you on a journey to discover of some twenty immersive and poetic artistic works. From 10 to 13 February, the Royal Quarter, the European Quarter and the Flagey neighborhood will be illuminated by enchanting light installations. The festival will also feature a fringe programme, including evening events in the museums.
It's become a tradition for the lights of Bright Brussels to warm us up in the dead of winter and, best of all, it's completely free!
( Bright Brussels is a light festival, a fascinating route through the city consisting of a dozen light installations that are artistic, interactive, playful,... and simply captivating. )