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Will Google or Bing try to buy this?

Here is a bit of infor­ma­tion about the project:

Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable users to vir­tu­ally visit cities by nav­i­gat­ing between immer­sive 360° panora­mas, or bub­bles. The dis­crete moves from bub­ble to bub­ble enabled in these sys­tems do not pro­vide a good visual sense of a larger aggre­gate such as a whole city block. Multi-perspective “strip” panora­mas can pro­vide a visual sum­mary of a city street but lack the full real­ism of immer­sive panoramas.

… As the user slides side­ways, the multi-perspective panorama is con­structed and ren­dered dynam­i­cally to sim­u­late either a per­spec­tive or hyper-perspective view. This pro­vides a strong sense of par­al­lax, which adds to the immer­sion. We call this form of slid­ing side­ways while look­ing at a street façade a street slide…

Thanks, Tom.

For the 3D and physics lovers

Bach visualized

via Kim

Jon Stewart on BP oil spill

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon — Thurs 11p / 10c
Day 62 — The Strife Aquatic
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Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

via Infrastructurist

Collection of inspiring infographics videos 5

Slagsmålsklubben — rein­ter­pre­ta­tion of “Little Red Riding Hood“
by Tomas Nilsson

How Will You Manage?
by Kronos and XPLANE

History of the Internet
by Melih Bilgil

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Nature by numbers

Cristóbal Vila cre­ated this mes­mer­iz­ing short movie about the present of numer­i­cal pat­terns in nature. In his words:

Artists and archi­tects have used since ancient times many geo­met­ri­cal and math­e­mat­i­cal prop­er­ties: we could take some exam­ples sim­ply by observ­ing the refined use of the pro­por­tions by archi­tects from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome or other Renaissance artists like Michelangelo, Da Vince or Raphael.

But what is more sur­pris­ing for me is that many of these prop­er­ties and math­e­mat­i­cal devel­op­ments are also present in NATURE. We could find count­less cases, but I wanted to refer only three of them on this short ani­ma­tion: The Fibonacci Series and Spiral / The Golden and Angle Ratios / The Delaunay Triangulation and Voronoi Tessellations.

Via FlowingData.

Animations explaining the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Al Jazeera released a cou­ple of infor­ma­tive ani­ma­tions explain­ing the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Thanks, Nicolas Ramallo.

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