Category: Science
Dec
09
Caught this over at BoingBoing, it's a nice Flash-based simulation that runs through rapidly evolving a vehicle design, using a physics engine to test the thing out over some terrain (not sure whether it's home-rolled or one of the big ones).
Quot… more »
Feb
28
My colleague James Hay has been experimenting with Processing, working with some public data made available on the UK government's statistics site:
http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/Download1.do
The end result has been captur… more »
Jan
08
I've just finished reading a paper I picked up over at BoingBoing titled "The physical world as a virtual reality", by Brian Whitworth. It's a very interesting read so I'm recommending it on here. It's not a long read, but it does help stop that grey mat… more »
Aug
22
This demonstration is pretty incredible. The software performs calculations on the entropy of an image (amongst other things), to allow you to resize it whilst maintaining key visual entities. Some examples include mountains, tree-lines or people.
Oth… more »
Aug
15
NASA have released a Java component called World Wind that enables developers to build something that includes Google Earth-like 3D map data. This component can be added to for example a Swing application and the developer can create a mashup in any way… more »
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