Kolelinia

"Custom" Roller Coaster?

looks fun/terrifying...



g

Nike

As a memorial to a nurse, my father and I were commissioned to create a sculpture of an angel.  We based the sculpture on the Nike of Samothrace, which currently is in the Louvre. Instead of marble we used 1/4" sheets of plate steel which we will let rest into an umber-ocher patina.  It is at 1:1 scale.

The initial sketch:

Emerging in the workshop: 

We're excited to see it mounted in the hopsitals garden come spring!

-G & G

uWaterloo Pedestrian Traffic Map

As part of my participation on the uWaterloo New Student Services Building Project Committee, I ran a research study to collect GPS points from students on campus over a 2 week period at the end of last term.



To do this we developed, tested and launched a custom built mobile application in 3 weeks. Students downloaded the app, filling out information about themselves, such as their faculty and expected year of graduation, and then let it run the background over the study period.  By leveraging uWaterloo's social media presence  as well as via word of mouth, videos, and an informative website, we had 367 students log 382,200 GPS points, which exceeded our goal of 1% participation of the student body.

To communicate results of this study, in the form of maps of campus, I developed an interactive html5 web app (see below or visit site here) that allows users to plot the GPS data in various ways.  This tool allows stakeholders of all technical abilities to engage and use the data to make more informed decisions.

 This "map app" shows how data can be made accessible and actionable to all stakeholders. My inspiration for this was from a project my friend Matt did which allowed a client to design their own suspended ceiling (here).





I'm interested to hear any comments or suggestions!

Fertilization

Honourable mention in the 2012 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge:



Tons more great animaions from Nucleus Medical Media can be found at their youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/nucleusanimation?feature=watch or here: http://catalog.nucleusmedicalmedia.com/nucleusindex.php?

via: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/science-visualization-winners/?pid=6148&viewall=true

Also check out the Cell in HD: http://blog.geoffchristou.com/2012/10/the-cell-hd1.html

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

Sclera

The white of our eyes is called the sclera. 


Someone's sclera:



Humans have a large amount of their sclera visible, partly because our iris are smaller then most animals and partly because it allows other humans to exchange non-verbal (i.e., to see where other peeps are looking)


Interestingly: "in the course of their domestication, dogs have also developed the ability to pick up visual cues from the eyes of humans, making them one of only two species known to seek visual cues from another individual's eyes... dogs do not seem to use this form of communication with one another and only look for visual information from the eyes of humans"


via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclera