Sunday Things - media edition
posted in Media by Cargo Cult on Sunday October 7 2012
Sundays are for reflecting on science fiction - past, present and future. Or is that nonlinear future/more-future, ultra-future and alternate-past?


Sunday Things - miscellaneous edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday September 30 2012
Sundays are for realising the combination of a cold and jet-lag has prevented the Saturday night compilation of the latest Sunday Things. So in a way, this is late - and for the first time ever - but it's still Sunday. So things can't be so bad?




Bonus Extreme Weather corner:
- Extreme Instability - people's hero goes chasing storms in a car with a camera. I went through what looked like a weather front in northern France the other day - a huge bank of clouds with damp consequences on the other side.
- Atmospheric Optics - all those funny crepuscular rays, parhelia, supernumerary rainbows, halos and noctilucent clouds all have names, don't you know.
- French Warship versus Big Waves - I'm hoping for weather like that on Lake Washington. The 271 bus has already been splashed by smaller waves...
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Sunday Things - Seattle LiDAR edition
posted in 3D by Cargo Cult on Sunday September 23 2012
What to do on long train journeys with no intertubes and no books to read? Instead of succumbing to tedious modern media consumption with a Kindle or iPad, why not break out the high-end modelling and rendering packages, combine them with geographical data conversion utilities and visualise some previously-downloaded LiDAR heightfield data of significant Pacific Northwestern cities?



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Sunday Things - underground edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday September 16 2012
Quick subterranean edition, assembled while waiting to board a plane...


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STOP PRESS (again) - THE ROBOT IS LOOKING AT US
posted in Space by Cargo Cult on Sunday September 9 2012
That Martian robot has gained sentience, and is looking at us. It can see itself, and it knows we can see it. Forget the cute, cuddly and anthropomorphic mastcam self-portrait, it is now showing its true nature - a monstrous space-robot bristling with cameras and scientific instrumentation.
In other words, MSL Curiosity's MAHLI camera is fully activated, the lens cover is open and it's busy inspecting itself. Calibration targets, wheels, hazcams - this is rather fancy. SPAAAACE! Ahem.
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