The basic thesis is that between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of time — 0.1s — acquired a weirdly powerful role at the heart of science, and indirectly, in the shaping of all modernity.
The tldr of the book might even be: the failure to come to terms with the 0.1s limit in human cognition gave birth to modernity, with all its inherent tensions, via a set of parallel crises.
An ongoing series of vibrant river and delta images from North America and other parts of the world. The images are constructed using high-resolution elevation data. To learn more about the rivers and to download the 4K-resolution versions, use the links at the bottom of the page.
Source: Dan Coe Carto – 4K Rivers
Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture
— Read on www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/01/biodiversity-heritage-library-free-download/
I’ve been fascinated with pen plotters for a long time now and I’ve owned several of them – but for some reason never posted any of my explorations or findings online. Until now, at least. You might wonder what’s so special about pen plotters? Well, let me tell you. Pen plotters are friendly robots
Source: An intro to Pen Plotters — Hej.
Just as the bright city lights are vanishing behind us, the Milky Way starts to become clearly visible up ahead. Its now us, pacing at almost the speed of sound along the invisible highway and the pitch-black night sky above this surreal landscape. Ahead of us are another eight hours flight time, but we already stopped counting the shooting stars. And we got already to a few hundred.
Read the full article on Beyond Clouds.
In 256 bytes, Linus Åkesson has produced not only an incredible set of visuals, modulating and morphing sierpinsky gaskets, but a beautiful, driving, piece of music.
He goes into depth about how it was made. The code can be seen below, in all its inscrutable wonder:
Via: Metafilter, Via: Other People
Via: Grandbrothers, a piano duet from Dusseldorf. Found along the way.
8 Earth years are roughly equal to 13 Venus years, meaning the two planets approximately trace out this pattern with 5-fold symmetry as they orbit the Sun.
Via: iBleeedorange @ Reddit
Offscreen Colonies is a 64k intro from Hungarian multimedia artists, Conspiracy.
To put it into perspective, the program that renders the video in that youtube link is 35 times smaller than any of the images captured from that program listed below.
Think about that. (also Blade Runner!)
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