The Ins and Outs of the Abandoned Cart
12:30 pm
The Gulf Oil Spill in Stereoscopic 3D
12:00 pm
Josh Klatt headed off to Grand Isle, Louisiana and captured some stunning images of the BP Gulf Oil Disaster in stereoscopic 3D. Slip on some anaglyphic red/cyan glasses and see the horror.
3-D BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill 3D – week 7 from Pesky 3D on Vimeo.
iDashboards to Track the 2010 World Cup Tournament
11:00 am
iDashboards has taken their BI dashboard software and retargeted it at the 2010 World Cup, providing a set of displays tracking each team.
These dashboards monitor the matches played by each team, match scores and points earned by each team in easy-to-view charts and graphs which are updated after each game. Teams compete to make it past the Group Stage and be among the top 16 teams. From the Round of 16, users can view at-a-glance information on team standings and follow who wins the title. There is also an interactive customized map of South Africa where users can roll-over a stadium to see the matches being played there.
You can see the dashboard here. They have compiled a lot of information, both current and historical.
13 Things Worth Knowing about Mario
10:30 am
25,000 Barrels of Oil Seen a New Way
10:00 am
The New York Times has a short writeup on an entertaining visualization of what 25,000 Barrels of Oil looks like, using the Unreal Gaming Engine to stack them 15,000 ft high and then knocking them down
Here’s a new entrant, using software tools from the gaming world to illustrate what a low-end estimate of the volume of oil gushing from the Gulf of Mexico seabed looks like if displayed as stacked barrels. (Hat tip to my elder son, Daniel, who saw this on Kotaku.com.)
via 25,000 Barrels of Oil Seen a New Way – Dot Earth Blog – NYTimes.com.
Sinisthesia: The Tragic Plight of Hollywood VFX Sweatshops
9:00 am
Over at Sinisthesia, the author has a detailed story about his departure from Disney Animation Studios into the VFX workforce at large, and how he found it less attractive than he expected.
By that time I had a Master’s degree in Computer Art, and I felt like there was no reason someone with my rare technical prowess shouldn’t own their own company in no time. So here I was, a recent Disney graduate, ready to take on the World. But the World was not ready. The greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression was now irrevocably underway (this was just after the housing collapse of late 2008/early 2009), but that wasn’t the main problem. After all, during times of recession, entertainment industries flourish, with so many newly unemployed customers suddenly having more leisure time for movies and games.
via Sinisthesia: The Tragic Plight of Hollywood VFX Sweatshops.
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