Experimental data visualisation and animation. more @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/lEfGuA2sfN Mastodon: @beyondwatts@beyondwatts.social
Joined January 2020
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For now, I'll be mainly found at:
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Fractal Cities: Hannovers Tetrominoes & New Blog!
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I'm closing this r&d project of visualising different methods of showing cityscape expansion with this little viz of the Mitte district in Hannover getting built up with tetrominoes. #3d #map #animation
Popped back to twitter briefly and there's some awesome content to share
#geospatial #dataviz
#Blender3d and other 3d tools
@LoraineRutt maps the artic
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Working on globes I'm constantly reminded of the 'lie of maps'. Thanks @kennethfield for thought provoking @bcsmaps lecture.
The top 30° the most commonly distorted on world maps.
So I made a pair of pieces that show the Arctic and Antarctic coast same scale as my HOME map
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Wow, along with short haul flights ... France is really knocking it out of the park.
Meanwhile in the UK ...
Paris just announced plans to ban private cars in the city centre.
Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done. Congestion is not inevitable, pollution is not inevitable, climate chaos is not inevitable.
#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #ItCanBeDone #GreenNewDeal
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this
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More experiments in data visualization in #Blender3d! Plotting 100k stars within 1000 light-years of the Sun. Thanks to @CgFigures tutorials for showing how to bring data into Blender. I love seeing the faint shape of the Milky Way emerge in the brighter more distant stars!
1. In #QGIS, create a bounding box for the area you're interested in
2. Use the #QuickOSM plugin to download the #OpenStreetMap features
3. create a #ShapeFile using "Export->Save Features As..."
4. Load the shapefile into #Blender with the #BlenderGIS plugin
5. Have fun with the geometry and materials...
- road polygons could be converted to paths and a Bevel depth added
- building polygons could be extruded on the z-axis to give depth
- a point mesh (bars and pubs) can be used as an input to #Blender #GeometryNodes
#30DayMapChallenge has flown by for another year. Have really enjoyed everyone's creations in my feeds each day. Thank you all for sharing.
Ok the first #30DayMapChallenge #BehindTheScenes post for London Bars and Pubs is up @ beyondwatts.com
Check the link for a more detailed write-up, but the basic steps are:
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Finally Day 23 - Movement was a project I'd been working on in the back background for much of this year... #raspberrypi availability was a challenge but I really enjoyed animating local AIS ship movements
#30DayMapChallenge #python #Blender