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To generate the resultant pattern, a 3-dimensional bulge is formed around the tree, and its distorted wire-grid projected onto a 2-dimensional surface. Taking into account appearance effects created by perspective views from inside, the resultant planar surface appears sink around the tree.
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Geography gifts. Equal Area Maps, Educational Maps, Presentation Maps
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Buy maps online from OS, IGN, Michelin and many more!
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The Wallace Collection is a national museum in an historic London town house. In 25 galleries are unsurpassed displays of French 18th century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master paintings and a world class armoury.
Entries from November 2009
links for 2009-11-29
30 Nov 2009 · Leave a Comment
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links for 2009-11-28
29 Nov 2009 · Leave a Comment
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User-Friendly USVN is a web interface written in PHP used to configure Subversion repositories.It's goal is to ease the creation of new projects without having to use the command line interface, therefor, maybe without privileged access to the server. USVN will then generate the list of users allowed to access your source code. This enable the delegation of rights to administrate Subversion repositories.
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1BOG (One Block Off the Grid) organizes group purchases of solar panels to lower the cost of solar energy on your home.
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links for 2009-11-27
28 Nov 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Wiredrive is a private and secure online media sharing site for uploading, managing, and presenting files. With over 500 clients worldwide, Wiredrive is used by tens of thousands of creative professionals in the advertising, television, motion-picture, and interactive industries.
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Stylizer lets you design CSS layouts in real-time right on a browser, without any loss in control. It's much faster and more intuitive than using an external editor like Notepad or Dreamweaver.
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Picsengine is the most accomplished web flash photo gallery, usable interface and administration.
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Named TAM-5, the 11-pound plane flew 1,888 miles from Canada to Ireland in 38 hours, 53 minutes.
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A nice how-to on getting your BeagleBoard location-aware and connected to the Internet anywhere using an RTK-GPS and a USB HSDPA modem. Real Time Kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation is a technique used in land survey and in hydrographic survey based on the use of carrier phase measurements of the GPS, GLONASS and/or Galileo signals where a single reference station provides the real-time corrections of even to a centimetre level of accuracy.
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links for 2009-11-26
27 Nov 2009 · Leave a Comment
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iphoneography
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Designed exclusively for MacBook, BassJump is a sweet, one-of-a-kind, go anywhere, USB-powered subwoofer that turns your MacBook into a mini sound system. One single USB cable delivers power and sound. Custom software blends the music coming out of your built-in speakers with the sound output of the BassJump for dramatically enhanced audio performance.
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San Francisco stairway covered in mosaic tiles.
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GRACE is the World`s first street legal E-Motorbike. 1300 watts strong, >45 km/h fast with lithium-ion technology, watertight inside a ultralight CNC-Aluminium frame. Deviced in Berlin/Biesenthal, handmade with eurofighter and formula one parts.
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links for 2009-11-25
26 Nov 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Internet par satellite est un site d'informations consacré à l'internet par satellite, ses fournisseurs d'accès, son matériel, son actualité.
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A set of short, easily digested learnings from the world of Interaction Design, inspired by "101 Things I Learned in Architecture School", by Matthew Frederick.
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A huge repository of blueprints of cars, trains, ships, weapons, sci-fi vehicles, etc.
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Device Doctor is a freeware Windows application that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for your devices. It also locates drivers for "unidentified devices" in the Windows Device Manager.
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links for 2009-11-23
24 Nov 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web.
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links for 2009-11-22
23 Nov 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Petition to: abolish the proposed law that will see alleged illegal filesharers disconnected from their broadband connections, without a fair trial.
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At the osmotic power plant, fresh water and salt water are guided into separate chambers, divided by an artificial membrane. The salt molecules in the sea water pulls the freshwater through the membrane, increasing the pressure on the sea water side. The pressure equals a 120 metre water column, or a significant waterfall, and be utilized in a power generating turbine.
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Phone boxes, Wristwatches, Bedside alarm clocks, MP3 players, Compact digital cameras, Netbooks, Handheld games consoles, Paper, Thinking.
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links for 2009-11-21
22 Nov 2009 · Leave a Comment
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The U.S. Geological Survey recognizes 17 different rare earths, materials with science-fictionesque names like lanthanum and gadolinium. They are used in everything: glass polishing and ceramics, automotive catalytic converters, computer monitors, lighting, televisions and pharmaceuticals. China accounts for about 97% of global rare-earth production — 139,000 metric tons of material in 2008 — and it also consumes about 60% of the world's rare earths.
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The Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition recognizes outstanding images of life science specimens captured through light microscopes, using any magnification, any illumination technique and any brand of equipment.
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links for 2009-11-20
21 Nov 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Sulfurcell has been manufacturing and developing thin-film solar modules based on chalcopyrite-type semiconductors (CIS/CIGSe) since 2003. Our modules feature an unobtrusive and homogeneous outward appearance and meet the highest aesthetic expectations. Since market introduction in 2005 they are integrated in roofs or facades and give buildings a modern and distinguished design.
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Villa Åkarp is a positive net energy house (plusenergihus in Swedish) being built outside of Malmo, Sweden. The house will generate more energy on an annual basis than it consumes by combining energy conservation, energy recovery and energy generation technologies, an amazing feat given that Sweden is hardly known for gratuitous solar energy.
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Foursquare on your phone gives you & your friends new ways of exploring your city. Earn points & unlock badges for discovering new things.
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OOPOST transforms your photos into real postcards printed and sent by Post to your addressees.
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"Smart Meters" are designed primarily for the electric utility industry so they can better manage the supply-and-demand of electricity. TED is designed specifically for the consumer, so that one can better manage the use and costs of electricity.
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AlertMe Energy puts you in control, allowing you to monitor how electricity is used in your home, helping you to make simple changes and reduce your energy bill.
AlertMe allows you to view and control your energy usage wherever you want, on-line or on your mobile phone whether you’re at home, in the office, on holiday or on the move. View your data in hard cash or kilowatt hours and by day, week, month or year. It’s your home and your energy so you decide what works best for you.
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In this tutorial I will be showing you how to piece together an interactive picture – aka an image that contains tooltips and popup boxes. This can be useful for showing off a particular aspect of a photo (ie items or people).
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