Off to Burning Man

Yeah!!!

See below for an exerpt from the "abstract/rationale"...

My thesis/research into the paths communities take, and how these path contain historical information, will be heavily engaged by studying the ephemerality of paths/movement Black Rock City.

As the cosmologists studies singularities, so I travel to Black Rock City.

The questions I will attempt to answer are:

1.) What is the shape of the general liturgical rite within the Temple of Diana to be erected this year? I have previously mapped the shape of Catholic liturgies in 5 churches in Rome and a map of the path of people in the Temple will form an important partner to this selection.

 ^ Map of Paths in Piazza della Rotonda

2.) What is the shape of individuals during the Festival? Using a GPS receiver,  I will map 4+ individuals in a series of day-long gps mappings, collecting over 200,000 gps data points over the duration of the festival. This information will form an addition to the similar Data I have collected on Rome and Toronto.

 ^ Map of Paths in Trastevere, Rome. 

I will be back from Burning Man around first week of September and hope to have some exciting new maps/stories/etc.

-g

Recapitulation theory

Note to self... rememeber to look this up:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory

Hover Bike

I'll believe it when I own it...



... so often these are fake and more often these new-flight-thingys are run by terrible business-people or idealists who destroy the company. Anyone remember Solotrek?



But then again Sikorsky must have been a nut bar and he brought us the helicopter... so...



-g

Water in Zero Gravity

Space Timelapse

via Singularity Hub

Experiments with Super-Helices

Was messing around with the Processing script I've been making (slowly) to plot GPS points but instead of GPS Latitude-Longitude data I plotted the functions for a helix and super helix:

x =100*(COS(x)+0.5*COS(15*x)+2)
y =100*(SIN(x)+0.5*SIN(15*x)+2)

 The bottom two images had some coding problems, but they look pretty neat also:

Thanks to my brother, Alex, for his help with the equations. 

-gc 

Concectome Project

 "Human Connectome Project" maps in very high resolution connections within the human brain.

http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/

via http://singularityhub.com/2012/08/16/scan-reveals-brains-structure-to-be-much-simpler-than-we-thought/

-g

Winds Maps

http://hint.fm/wind/index.html

Google Ripples

Fascinated to find out about Google+ Ripples today... very similar to some projects that Shamir, Azzo, Natalie, and I were working on at Partisans Projects last summer. (link)



Here is what we were working on, or a snippet of it at least:

-gc

Mt. Desert Island, Maine

While looking through the Library of Congress online map catalogue (link) I found some beautiful hand drawn maps... this one in particular:

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Poster for M1 - Publication

I finally got around, after much cajoling by Shane and Virgina, to completing my poster for the M1 Studio's publication!!

 I opted for modifying the z-axis to be "time" versus altitude... in this case the x- and y-axis become latitude and longitude in the vein of a Couchy Surface. 

GPS Mapping

Some etchings I have been working on... testing out how to do it.

Current approach:

1.) Using custom built Java script Export GPS path data as 3d DXF.

2.) Take DXF into AutoCad. Set lineweights to etch.

3.) Plot on Acrylic with 50W laser cutter.

4.) Rub acrylic paint onto etched sheet.

5.) Mount multiple mappings in wooden frame, overlayed to show similar patterns.

6.) Remove blue-plastic scratch covering.

Had alot of difficulty with dado's on frame, and also scratchs on acrylic. Generally happy with result (which will be displayed at Open Eyes Toronto 2012 on August 9th).

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