Entries in san francisco (4)

Thursday
Apr222010

California Academy of Sciences (slide show)

 

 

Wednesday
Nov252009

Interactive Flood Maps (SF LA slide shows)

There is a fascinating site that provides interactive flood maps for

Europe  N. America  S. America  Africa  SE. Asia  China & Japan and Australia.

Simply dial in the number of meters of sea level rise and the map will update to show the predicted flooding for that level.

Here are slide shows showing rising sea level flood maps for Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Static images below link to the appropriate interactive map.

N.B. Site uses color “dithering” which is improper from a sampling perspective. Los Angeles maps are higher resolution, and scaled down here — showing the “digital artifacts” that are exposed when “improper” images are manipulated. A common example of this error is to use a black and white checkerboard pattern to represent a 50% gray color.

Data provided by NASA.

 

Saturday
Sep052009

Interactive Flood Maps (global warming, NASA)

There is a fascinating site that provides interactive flood maps for

Europe  N. America  S. America  Africa  SE. Asia  China & Japan and Australia.

Simply dial in the number of meters of sea level rise and the map will update to show the predicted flooding for that level.

Here are maps for the San Francisco Bay Area, 1 and 7 meters sea level rise respectively. Both images are linked to the interactive map that generated them.

Data provided by NASA.

 


Monday
May112009

CryptoZoo West Coast Sneak Preview - Sunday June 7 2pm

The map

The event

 

via Ze Frank:

Jane McGonigal has a new game! She will be demoing it in SF on June 5th. CryptoZoo - a secret world of strange and fast-moving creatures :: Jane told me that I am the godfather of the game, since she was inspired by a parkour session we went on in New Zealand :: how exciting…

 

 


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