Sunday Things - late edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday April 2 2017
It's still Sunday! ... Depending on where you are.



Bonus Alternate System Font corner:
- Olympiad: IBM prototype fonts unearthed - you know the crappy monospaced serif font that was forever the soul of IBM PCs and compatibles? Well, it had a much nicer version.
... TeddyBär! ... what?
Sunday Things - yet another edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday March 26 2017
More random linkage dredged from the bookmarks!


Bonus Useful Skills For After The Apocalypse corner:
- Rough Science - some kind soul has uploaded the complete set to YouTube. Ideal material for insomniacs, this BBC / Open University show had scientists building unlikely things from near base principles. Taking a photograph with horse manure, a sparkly rock and a magnifying glass? Yes. Also the subject of last week's mini-puzzle, solved by Acolyte Pace after a bit of prompting - I'd found precise coordinates for the filming locations for all six series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
- Primitive Technology - for if the apocalypse was really spectacular. Glorious Australian loon making useful stuff from mud, rocks and trees.
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Still another non-photo
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Wednesday March 22 2017
Yet another digitised segment of Derbyshire to explore in room-scale VR, this time some wintry Beech Woodlands on the Destinations Workshop.
A bit of an experiment into capturing vegetation in 3D, with a pretty much worst-case scene. Fine detail, complex topology, large area to cover... It mostly worked. Mostly.
Some of the branches are definitely a bit cobwebby. But some aren't! This is progress.
Description contains an absolutely huge batch of discoveries and processes involved, only some of which are covered in the existing outdoors photogrammetry tutorial.
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Sunday Things - nuclear wasteland edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday March 19 2017
Prompted by no recent events whatsoever, here's a guide to nuclear wastelands of various types - and the apocalyptic events that might trigger them.

Bonus No Really This Isn't An ARG corner:
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Sunday Things - photographic interlude
posted in Photography by Cargo Cult on Sunday March 12 2017
Since I've been thoroughly neglecting to upload any photos recently, have a purely arbitrary selection from the past year or so on the photos page. (I'm still sorting a load out in Lightroom, and realise I've forgotten many.)
Yes, they're old-fashioned 2D efforts and not new-fangled 3D versions to explore, but hey. They start here and crawl their way to the present day.
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