Qaudricopter Swarm

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