Giant Map of Superpowers
Die Popchart-Labs haben ihre Karte der Superkräfte aktualisiert und neu gestaltet, jetzt mit über 200 Kräften und über 600 Superhelden und Superarschlöchern. Nice!
In its 3rd iteration, this is the universe’s most extensive charting of superpowers. The sprawling taxonomy of over 200 superpowers and 600 superheroes and villains spreads over six square feet. Powers from the mighty (Super Strength and Immortality) to the meek (Open Any Window) to the weird (Infinite Mouth Storage) are charted, along with the characters that wield these awesome abilities, spanning the past 75 years of comic book history from the giant publishers like Marvel and DC to indies like IDW, Image, and Dark Horse.
The Giant-Size Omnibus of Superpowers
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Map of Superpowers
Map of Superpowers on a T-Shirt
Excellent iOS-Map-Glitches
Glitches auf digitalen Karten mit Satellitenbildern sind echt nix neues, aber Peder Norrby hat in iOS-Maps nochmal ein paar sehr schön surreale gefunden, hier das Flickr-Set. Mir gefallen ja die Containerschiff-Glitches aus irgendeinem Grund am besten. (via AnimalNY)
Tracking Faces in Places: Google Earth Pareidolia
Über Maschinen-Pareidolia – der psychologische Effekt, Gesichter in Mustern oder Strukturen zu erkennen, übertragen auf Face-Tracking-Software –, habe ich schon ein paar mal gebloggt. Jetzt haben die Leute vom Onformative Studio das Prinzip durch Google Earth gejagt:
One of the key aspects of this project, is the autonomy of the face searching agent and the amount of data we are investigating. The source of our image data is halfway voluntary provided by Google Maps. Our agent flips through one satellite image after the other, in order to feed the face detection algorithm with landscape samples. The corresponding iteration algorithm steps sequentially along the latitude and longitude of our globe. Once the agent circumnavigated the world, it switches to the next zoom level and starts all over again.
Google Faces – searching for faces on Google Maps (via Creative Applications)
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Tracking Faces in Places
Tracking Faces in Places: Machine Pareidolia
A Map of every Music-Genre
Angeblich eine Karte aller Musik-Genres. Ich vermisse allerdings Eurodoomtrashpoptechnocore. Egal, passt auch so:
This is an algorithmically-generated non-analytical map of the musical genre-space. Genres and artists are positioned by code and data, adjusted for legibility, but the underlying vectors are less interesting than the juxtapositions and clusters that they produce, so the axes have been deliberately left unlabeled and uncalibrated.
Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like. Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists.
Google Streetview Hyperlapse
Vimeo Direktlapse, via Interweb3000
Tolles Spielzeug von Teehan+Lax Labs, ein DIY-Timelapse-Dingsbums mit Fixpunkten für die Kamera per Google Streetview. Den Sourcecode gibt’s auf Github, damit kann man dann so schöne Videos machen, wie das obige.
Hyper-lapse photography – a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest – has been a growing trend on video sites. It’s not hard to find stunning examples on Vimeo. Creating them requires precision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations. We aimed at making the process simpler by using Google Street View as an aid, but quickly discovered that it could be used as the source material. It worked so well, we decided to design a very usable UI around our engine and release Google Street View Hyperlapse.
The site settings are purposely low (like having a maximum of 60 frames per animation) for greater accessibility. However, all the source code is available on Github (including examples and documentation) so developers can play with higher frame rates, better image quality, and more complicated camera movements.
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ASCII Street View
Map of Superpowers on a T-Shirt
Die Popchart-Labs haben ihre 2011er Karte der Superkräfte aktualisiert und auf ein Shirt gedruckt. Sweet!
Behold the universe’s most extensive charting of superpowers. This sprawling breakdown features over 300 heroes, anti-heroes, villains, and beasts as well as hand-drawn “Kirby krackle” effect by comic book artist John Amor. Face front, True Believer!
The Giant Omnibus of Superpowers
Nach dem Klick nochmal das Original in HighRes: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
Experimental 3D-Maps of Berlin, San Francisco, London, New York
Schickes Spielzeug: Stamen Design haben mit 3D-Daten und Kartenmaterial von Nokia Maps ein paar komplette 3D-Karten von Berlin, San Francisco, London und New York online gestellt, die im Browser laufen und die man einbetten und geobasiert verlinken kann. Sweet!
[Stamen Here] uses 3D data from HERE for San Francisco, New York, London, and Berlin to create city-wide 3D browsable maps, and it does this in the browser (though you’ll need a WebGL-enabled browser to see it). As in many of our other mapping projects, the urls change dynamically depending on location and other factors, and the data conforms, more or less, to the Tile Map Service specification. What this means, among other things, is that it’s not only possible to link to and embed these maps at specific locations and zoom levels, but that it’s easy.
Abandoned McDonalds in Fukushima
Google hat gestern seine Streetview-Maps aus Fukushima online gestellt, was ich mir grade zum ersten mal richtig angesehen habe. Spooky. Chris hat mir grade das vorrottende McDonalds dort geschickt, nach dem Klick noch ein verwesender Sony-Laden: Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan McDonalds (Danke Chris!)
Illegal Botnet-Map of the Web
Wissenschaftler haben mit einem Botnet eine „illegale“ Vermessung des Webs und eine Karte des Internets erstellt, inklusive animierten XKCD-inspirierten Karten auf Basis von Hilbert Kurven. Fun!
“Two years ago while spending some time with the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) someone mentioned that we should try the classic telnet login root:root on random IP addresses,” wrote the anonymous researcher behind the Carna botnet. “This was meant as a joke, but was given a try.” […]
Carna turned out to be an effective way of measuring a big chunk of the Internet, but there’s one major catch: It’s illegal and invasive, which no doubt explains why the researcher has remained anonymous. Carna was, as per the name, a botnet, a type of malware secretly loaded into any device it could penetrate. At its peak, the botnet controlled an estimated 420,000 devices.
Daily Dot: Rogue researcher uses illegal botnet to measure the Internet
Internet Census 2012: Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices , hier alle Karten und animierten GIFs in verschiedenen Auflösungen.
Crowdfunded Nazi-Map
Tolles Projekt von Open Data City, die per Crowdfunding eine interaktive Nazi-Karte von Deutschland auf die Beine gestellt haben. Das Teil wird ausgebaut und mit Daten der Antifa aktuell gehalten.
Rechtes Land, TAZ: Virtuelle Deutschlandkarte – Sag mir, wo die Nazis sind
Classy Submarine Cable Map
Hübsche Karte der aktuellen Seekabeln, das Design basiert auf alter Kartographie aus den 1920ern:
The design of our new map was inspired by antique maps and star charts, and alludes to the historic connection between submarine cables and cartography. We drew inspiration from a number of sources including Maury’s New Complete Geography (Revised Edition) published by American Book Company in 1921 and The Timechart History of the World, a collection of antique timelines published by Third Millennium Press.
The map depicts routes of 232 in-service and 12 planned undersea cables. Country dialing codes and capital cities are also provided. Insets provide detailed information about cable landing stations in key regions including New York and New Jersey, Egypt, Cornwall, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Movie-Scenes in Google Street View
Google Street Scene: „Moments from cinema captured by Google Street View cameras.“ Bild oben: 113 Suttand Place, Lawrence aus Good Fellas. (via Gawker)
Gravitational Map of the Moon: Giant Flummi in the Sky
Die NASA hat vor ein paar Wochen eine Gravitationskarte des Mondes veröffentlicht, die roten Stellen haben eine besonders hohe Masse, die blauen Stellen eine besonders niedrige. Außerdem sieht der Mond auf dieser Karte aus wie ein Flummi und ich liebe Flummis.
This image shows the variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) during the primary mapping mission from March to May 2012. Very precise microwave measurements between two spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow, were used to map gravity with high precision and high spatial resolution. The field shown resolves blocks on the surface of about 12 miles (20 kilometers) and measurements are three to five orders of magnitude improved over previous data.
Lasercut Underwater-Topographic Maps made from Wood
Sehr tolle Topografie-Karten von Below The Boat, lasergeschnitzt in übereinandergelegte Holzschichten. Oben die Great Lakes („I love the lakes. Just something very special here. The Great Lakes but also all the little inland lakes that dot the parts of Michigan. I love cars.“ SCNR.)
Starting with a bathymetric chart (the underwater equivalent of a topographic map), the contours are laser-cut into sheets of Baltic birch and glued together to create a powerful visual depth. Select layers are hand-colored blue so it’s easy to discern land from water, major byways are etched into the land, the whole thing’s framed in a custom, solid-wood frame and protected seamlessly with a sheet of durable, ultra-transparent Plexiglas.
The result is stunning. It lifts the surface of the water back like a veil, exposing the often-overlooked, under-explored, awe-inspiring world that lies below. To those familiar with the floor of the ocean or the bed of a lake, it’s a beautiful reminder of the deep channels, sharp drop-offs, and mountainous landscapes that are hidden from normal view. To the uninitiated, it’s wonderfully eye-opening; as though the world suddenly took on a fourth dimension.
Below The Boat (via Colossal)
Warning: Apple Maps could be life-threatening
Die australische Polizei hat eine offizielle Warnung vor Apple Maps rausgeben müssen, weil sich mehrere Leute in den Outbacks verirret hatten und beinahe verdurstet wären. Mit Steve Jobs wäre das nicht passiert:
Using Apple’s new maps system could be potentially life-threatening, police in Mildura, Australia, have warned, after a number of people trying to find the town of 30,000 people have become hopelessly lost in scorching temperatures.
One man was stranded for 24 hours last week in temperatures of up to 46 degrees centigrade, and at least three more have had to be rescued after following the directions given on Apple’s new maps, which locate Mildura far from its actual position.
Apple Maps could be life-threatening, Australian police warn
