I absolutely love Bach on the violin, and I wanted to try to visualize it in PV3D. The logic is that it averages the amplification and frequency over 100 and 500 frames, respectively. This allows those modifiers to gracefully control the shapes. I am setting the size of the shape to respect the amplification at the sample time. (via Papervision3D v2 Sound Visualizer Experiment 1 « lukesh +interactive
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The environmental group Greenpeace said it was the first time Brazil had accepted a link between global warming and preserving the rainforest (via BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil launches rainforest fund)
Reducing the data in this case was basically converting all the float values to integers, and then just saving the deltas instead of the real values. (via ricardo cabello* blog* )
Miss You The Rolling Stones 12 single mix (via podmixture)
The first two monkeys to survive their trip into space are presented at a NASA press conference in 1959. Able, on the left, a seven-pound rhesus monkey, and Baker, an 11-ounce squirrel monkey from Peru, withstood forces 38 times the normal pull of gravity and endured weightlessness for about 9 minutes during their historic flight. (via Animals in Space - Photo Essays - TIME)
A squirrel monkey, his body swathed in protective silicon rubber padding, is strapped into a capsule as part of a training exercise for spaceflight. A comrade of his known as Gordo was similarly secured for a 1958 fifteen-minute flight that ascended to a height of 310 miles. (via Animals in Space - Photo Essays - TIME)
I had to mess with this data a little bit to get it to show up on google earth. At first I just divided each countries consumption by its population to get per capita but the numbers were so low that they would not show up at all here. Even multiplying per capita use by 365 to get a years worth of data only had the USA using 24 barrels a year per capita. So after I got a figure for a year I also multiplied them all by a factor of 100,000 and so what you are seeing is the data from the CIA factbook in consumption of barrels per day per country divided by the countries current population for per capita and multiplied 36,500,000 times to get its representation in meters of height. I was surprised to see Singapore take the lead in per capita use! The USA comes in only 9th place right ahead of Canada.
