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This fantastic video by Vi Hart shows you what the math of music looks like in a visual representation — or, should that be “what visual frieze patterns sound like when turned into music”?

Frieze patterns are symmetrical repeating patterns that show up in architecture, art, and even our model of DNA. According to Hart, this video is:

A visual and musical expression of mathematical symmetry groups. The transformations done to the video are equivalent to the transformations done to the notes.

Very cool to watch! Here’s the video link.

En una mesa redonda en la Feria del Libro, Beatriz Busaniche, Eduardo Abel Giménez y Fabio Tarasow debatieron sobre las nuevas posibilidades que ofrece Internet para la creación y la circulación de la palabra.

Peanuts

Excelente campaña por la neutralidad de la red en Brasil. Queremos una internet completa y libre!

Sobre Neutralidad de la red from Partido Pirata Argentino on Vimeo.

Working with the USGS, NASA, and Time, Google has built a viewer for satellite image time lapses. Among the images are those of the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, the retreat of an Alaskan glacier, and the growth of Dubai. You can also refocus the map on any other area you want. More info here.

Depression Part Two

En el marco del 16.º Congreso Internacional de Promoción de la Lectura y el Libro, que se llevará a cabo del viernes 10 al domingo 12 de mayo, en la Feria del Libro de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Fundación Vía Libre participa de la Mesa Redonda “Leer, escribir y compartir en el mundo digital”.
El encuentro será el viernes 10 de mayo, de 15:45 a 17:15. en la Sala Jorge Luis Borges (Pab. Frers).

Para conocer de antemano la ubicación de la sala, consultar el plano de la Feria ingresando al siguiente link: http://bit.ly/11WsObSl

Panelistas:
-Beatriz Busaniche (bea@vialibre.org.ar)
-Eduardo A. Giménez (eagimenez@gmail.com)
-Fabio Tarasow (Fabio.tarasow@gmail.com)
Coordina: Mabel Kolesas (mabelstilman@gmail.com)

from Boing Boing Back up at its original URL courtesy of CERN: “Twenty years of a free, open web.”

My glib description of Tom Gauld’s cartoons would be “a science fiction Edward Gorey.” It’s unfair though, because there’s is only a superficial stylistic resemblance between the two writer/illustrators.

To read a Tom Gauld cartoon or illustrated book (see my reviews of The Gigantic Robot and Goliath) is to be entertained, but also to be affected on a deeper level, where timeless truths about the human condition wait for talents such as Gauld to tap a line into them and provide lesser mortals like me with a chance to taste them.

The folks over at Teehan+Lax have just released a new tool (you’ll need Google Chrome and a pretty kickin’ internet connection) that lets you scrape public data from Google Street View to create sweeping hyperlapse videos. What’s a hyperlapse? Via Teehan+Lax:

Hyper-lapse photography—a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest—has been a growing trend on video sites. It’s not hard to find stunning examples on Vimeo. Creating them requires precision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations. We aimed at making the process simpler by using Google Street View as an aid, but quickly discovered that it could be used as the source material. It worked so well, we decided to design a very usable UI around our engine and release Google Street View Hyperlapse.

The team turned their new UI over to one of their motion designers, Jonas, who made the stunning clip above. Incredible. Some other great examples of art made with Google Street View: Address is Approximate and this clip from Giacomo Miceli. (via it’s nice that)

Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been photographing for over three years. One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy then digitally stacked the numerous photos to reveal shifts in color and shape reminiscent of painterly brush strokes that smeared the sky. You can learn more about his “timestack” technique over at Digital Photo Magazine and prints are available here. (via bored panda)

from Otros Douglas

The term of art for time lapse videos in which the camera moves is hyperlapse. In playing around with the hyperlapse technique, Teehan+Lax developed a system to make hyperlapse videos using Google Street View. Like this one:

Make your own here.