Timelapse of NASA images – a must see. From the originator’s description: Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan fragileoasis.org/?bloggernauts/?Astro_Ron and the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km with...
Category Archives: Science & Technology
A superb animation from Cristobal Vila, which he describes as “inspired on [sic] numbers, geometry and nature”. A complete delight to view especially if, like me, you’re both a fractal nut and a lover of close-up nature photography.
… when you stitch 2,346 (yup, two thousand, three hundred and forty six) images from the Canon 5d Mk11 together? You get a 26 gigapixel panoramic image of Paris, that’s what! 354159×75570 pixels in size. See it here. Read the photographer’s blog here. I’ve posted before about a particular gigapixel image, which remains one of...
All of the above occurred recently. Oh, joy. We had a duff ‘net connection for weeks, yet BT kept telling me – after testing the phone line – that there was nothing wrong with it. Grump. I changed the microfilters. Then I changed the cables. Then I went to a lot of trouble to connect...