30 March 2007

Map-Based Horizontal Navigation in Educational Hypertext : http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v03/i01/Brusilovsky/

Any convex hexagon will tessellate if it has a pair of opposite sides that are equal, and three adjacent angles that add up to 360 degrees. Semi-regular tessellation check using full screen manipulator. Via

Displaying maps on PSP's web browser : http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=32620

Spatial Problems : http://naturalmaths.com.au/hexagonia/spatial.htm

Leading Churches Map : http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/church_bodies.gif Via

GameNodes Map : http://www.adastragames.com/graphics/Maps/TubeMap.pdf

The Forbidden Land Via

Totally Tessellated Historical Image Gallery : http://library.thinkquest.org/16661/gallery/thumbnails.html

TimeLine of Art History : http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

Interesting design group : http://www.arup.com/aboutus.cfm Office

"A good pun is its own reword." - Unknown Via
"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few." - James Gleick
"Sapere aude. " - Dare to know." - Kant Via
"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience." - Georges de Buffon
"It's not an optical illusion, it just looks that way." - ?

29 March 2007

Maps & Directions Search Tool : http://www.ask.com/?tool=img#subject:map%7Cpg:1

Examples of self-similar tilings : http://www.math.okstate.edu/mathdept/dynamics/lecnotes/node27.html

SpanishSpeakers Map : http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/language/leading_non_eng_lang.gif Via

Map of Public Transport Routes in Jerusalem : http://www.egged.co.il/Eng/Main.asp?lngCategoryID=2721

See how easy it is to customize Firefox browser : http://askbobrankin.com/tricking_out_firefox.html

Share The Wealth : http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/03/24/share_the_wealth_utopia_or.htm Utopia Or Opportunity?

Fun search : http://images.google.com/images?q=cartoon+maps&start=120&gbv=2&ndsp=20&svnum=10&hl=en&sa=N

"Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible." - Unknown
"The roots of conflict and the strategies used to address it have not changed in 2400 years." - Henning Fischer
"Exceptions always outnumber the rules." - ?
"One of the great surprises to emerge from studies of nonlinear dynamics has been the discovery that stable steady states are the exception rather than the rule." - Siegfried Grossman and Gottfried Mayer-Kress
"Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune time." - ?

28 March 2007

Thematic Navigation in Space and Time Interdependencies of Spatial, Temporal and Thematic Navigation

Fractal Tilings Based on Dissections of Polyhexes (PDF) - View as HTML (hexagon supertiles ) *****

WoW UI Mod: Cartographer : http://borkweb.com/story/wow-ui-mod-cartographer

Silk Road Maps : http://www.chinahighlights.com/map/images/silkroad-map-gansu.jpg Via

Redefining the Basemap : http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol6_No2_interactive_city_sant.htm download pdf

Panoramio : http://www.panoramio.com/(why geotag your photos on Flickr when you can just have them stuck right into Google Earth?)

Geometry 2012

How long will my digital pictures last?

"If you want to be an artist--try being artistic." - Maurice Golleau
"... it's when you physically prepare the way - no matter how silly, tiny or futile your efforts may seem - that 1,000 miracles will transform you." - TU
"Painting is not made to decorate apartments ... it is an instument of war, for attack and defense against the enemy." - Picasso
"... on a stage of your own design, you have all you need, to become all you want." - The Universe
"You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it." - Robert Shaw

27 March 2007

The Many Faces of Carbon (PDF) - View as HTML (including the truncated icosahedron)

Challenges in Multi-level Wayfinding (PDF) - View as HTML

Citizen Media Sites : http://www.kcnn.org/citmedia_sites/ Zoom in on individual states or pins to get site snapshots, or search via keywords.

Interactive Guide to SXSW : http://www.austinist.com/sxsw.php

Animated map of a day’s traffic on Google.

NSF 2007 Visualization Challenge :
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/index.jsp?id=win2006


Landscape as Territory : http://a06.cgpublisher.com/proposals/126/index_html Mapping and Maps in Contemporary Art in Israel (questions of identity and territory have been given a complex representation across semantic systems through representations of maps and border markings in work done in different areas: performances, environments, photography, video-art, textile work, collage, digital art and paintings).

Da Ali G Show, Best of Borat (24 min)

"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't." - ?
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Chinese
"You have the instinctual ability to instantly acclimate to miraculous life changes, avalanches of abundance, amazing new friendships, and your "star" suddenly blasting off." - TU
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." - William Gibson
"My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses,those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like--but truer than the literal truth." - Vincent Van Gogh

26 March 2007

Visualising Uncertainty in Spatially-Referenced Attribute Data : http://www.geocomputation.org/2003/Papers/Kardos_Paper.pdf

Knowledge Management State of the Art : ( PowerPoint ) - View HTML

Personal Learning Environment Map : http://simslearningconnections.com/ple/ray_ple.html Via

INVASION MAPS : http://www.space-invaders.com/ed.html

GREAT WALL of CHINA at Beijing

MAP VIEWER GPS APPLICATION 4 PSP : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nitCHViaCU

The Pavilion of Polyhedreality : http://www.georgehart.com/pavilion.html

The history of cartography : http://www.rsoperations.com/History/Cartography/Cartography.htm View the map gallery

Example of using border thumb roll-over to central zoomed image : http://www.howe-two.com/nctm/tessellations/examples/index.html

Map Designer Wanted

This searcher missed finding what s/he was looking for: MAPSwithOUTborders (?)

"Chaos is the law of nature; order is the dream of man." - Henry Brooks Adams
"The great thing about change is that it absolutely, positively, always means things are going to get even better. Even when you don't know how." - The Universe
"If you are on a road to nowhere, find another road." - Ashanti Via
"Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last." - Irish
"I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else." - Pablo Picasso

23 March 2007

Flow Map Layout : http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/flow_map_layout/ reduce visual clutter by merging edges. Via

Simple Hex engine using DirectX

Fractal Tilings : http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/reptile1.htm Via

Blended Maps and Layered Semantics for a Tourist Mobile Guide (PDF) - View HTML (Because hand-drawn artistic maps allow emphasizing tourist points of interest, they are more attractive and recognizable for the user...)

Shakespeare Timelines : http://www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian/download/Genshakespeare.pdf

An oblique viewpoint improves wayfinding performance, but not cognitive-map acquisition : http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v000347

Mindcamp Creativity Weekend : http://thinkxic.com/mindcamp/weekend.php

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"In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it." - John Archibald Wheeler
"Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificance." - Emily Carr, 1871-1945
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." - Isaac Newton
"Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do." - Gustav Klimt
"I long to set foot where no man has trod before." - Charles Darwin

22 March 2007

PowerWEB Zoom Free : http://www.dart.com/pwzmf.aspx enables panning and zooming of high-resolution images within a browser, turning static images into exciting interactive elements (handles the difficult tasks of image rendering and delivery).

New perspectives on forbidden symmetries, quasicrystals,and Penrose tilings ( PDF)

Introduction to the World of Fractals : (PDF) - View as HTML (this hexagon all over the plane).

Cartography and Geographic Information Society : http://www.cartogis.org/

Recording your ideas in a visual format enables you to capture a large number of thoughts and their relationships in a tangible form in front of you. In addition, the combination of words and shapes engages both the left and right hemispheres of your brain, which helps you to be more creative. Via

How is Second Life Different? : http://askbobrankin.com/what_is_second_life.html

How to make big prints with little printers

The American Physical Society coloring book of famous physicists : www.physicscentral.com/coloringbook (download the Feynman page directly at http://www.physicscentral.com/coloringbook/feynman.pdf ).

"I do not want to forsee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following." - Mahatma Gandhi Via
"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow." - Plato (c. 428-c. 348 B.C.)
"Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment." - Donald J. Walters
"It may be small stuff you're doing, and your inadequacies may revisit and haunt you, but the artist's life is big stuff indeed." - Robert Genn
"There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear." - David Mahoney, Business leader and philanthropist (1924-2000)