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sexta-feira, 10 de maio de 2013

Os 50 maiores portos do mundo - interativo

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/interactive-the-50-largest-ports-in-the-world.html

quinta-feira, 9 de maio de 2013

Visualização animada de todos os meteoritos que atingiram a Terra desde 861 dC

Carlo Zapponi, a data visualization designer at Nokia, has created a prettysplendid visualization of the 1,042 meteorites that humans have witnessed hitting our planet since 861 AD. If you click the image above, you will see the visualization in full screen mode. And if you then click on various points along the timeline, you’ll get essential data (produced byThe Meteoritical Society) about each observed meteor strike. Most are clustered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The last is the terrifying rock thatblasted through Siberia earlier this year.

Note: A total of 34,513 meteorites have hit our planet since 2500 BC. But the vast majority were never observed. They were only later found.

via The Guardian

Oceano perpétuo: uma visualização estilo Van Gogh das correntes oceânicas

Hats off to the Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, which produced this three minute animation called Perpetual Ocean. The visualization shows ocean currents as they swirled around between June 2005 and December 2007, and it was all produced with a computational model called ECCO2. ECCO2 attempts to model the circulation and climate of the ocean, helping scientists to understand how the ocean will contribute to future climate change. It’s some heady science that also yields some visually impressive animations. Perpetual Ocean (which was submitted to the SIGGRAPH 2011 Computer Animation Festival) can be viewed in a variety of formats from this page. More excellent clips can be found in our collection of Great Science Videos. via Kottke

http://goo.gl/75UQz