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. 

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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/

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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:

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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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