Assassination Coordinates

Testing out some shapefile code with a zoom into San Francisco. This uses five different shapefiles:

Country borders are from Eric Muller's fips-10 shapefile.

States and US Counties come from the United States Census Bureau.

San Francisco 5 foot elevation contours from DataSF.

Finally the street map for San Francisco is from data.gov.

These are almost all based on different projections and I did my best to actually line everything up but if you're heading over for coffee it's probably best to stick with Google Maps.

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(Published to the Fediverse as: Assassination Coordinates #etc #video #sanfrancisco #shapefile #animation Animation that zooms from a global map to the streets of San Francisco using five different shapefiles. )

Book reviews for December 2022

Desert Star (Renée Ballard, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #36) by Michael Connelly

Desert Star (Renée Ballard, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #36) by Michael Connelly

3/5

 

JUDAS 62 by Charles Cumming

JUDAS 62 by Charles Cumming

4/5

 

No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27) by Lee Child

No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27) by Lee Child

3/5

 

The Maze (John Corey, #8) by Nelson DeMille

The Maze (John Corey, #8) by Nelson DeMille

3/5

 

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ITHCWY Newsletter for December 2022

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In November ITHCWY reached 1,000 posts. Here are 17 of the best.

What happens if you ask Stable Diffusion to generate a typical person from every country in the world?

WebCamSaver 3.30 is available to download. Also Android Fortune Cookies 1.30 and Catfood Earth 4.30.

Timelapse of a plane landing at SFO. Also some more Bangalore Sunsets. And one from SF.

Get rid of the unhelpful word robot.

Animation of 20 years of shifts in the US Presidential vote.

Does anyone know why San Francisco felt the need to redistrict the Pacific Ocean?

You can now follow both ITHCWY and me on Mastodon.

Previously:

Links for December 2022

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Stable Diffusion Global Stereotypes

Stable Diffusion Global Stereotypes

What does Stable Diffusion think a typical person looks like from each country?

This image is composed of 248 faces generated with the following prompt:

"photo of a typical person from Vietnam, highly symmetrical face, portrait photography, highly detailed Vietnam background, 4k, 35mm, sharp focus, amazing photo, portrait of the year"

Using seed 960604, 50 iterations, 7.5 scale, and just varying the country name in the prompt text.

There is no gender implied in the prompt but it certainly seems more likely to generate a woman. It seems to find something distinctive about most countries. The region that surprises me the most is Eastern Europe which ends up being very similar. Click the image above for a larger version.

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(Published to the Fediverse as: Stable Diffusion Global Stereotypes #etc #ml #stablediffusion A composite image of 248 faces generated by Stable Diffusion for each country in the world. )

ITHCWY on Mastodon

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Thursday, February 16, 2023.

A Mastodon in a primordial forest

Well I picked a bad year to dabble back in Twitter. I'm not ready to delete it all again, but I am experimenting with Mastodon. There is an official ITHCWY account here, this is fully automated via the Mastodon API and will publish posts, comments and news shares. It's currently posting its way through the back catalog.  I also have a personal account here. So far Mastodon is a pretty good experience. There is some stress in picking a server but once you're on everything else is easy. Will just have to see if there is a regression to the mean as the number of users continues to increase.

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Winter Solstice 2022

Winter Solstice 2022

Winter Solstice 2022 (December 21, 2022 at 21:48 UTC) as rendered in Catfood Earth. Winter starts right now in the Northern Hemisphere, Summer if you happen to be south of the Equator.

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(Published to the Fediverse as: Winter Solstice 2022 #code #winter #solstice #catfood #earth The exact moment (2022-12-21 21:48 UTC) of Winter Solstice 2022 rendered in Catfood Earth. )

Landing at SFO

Landing at SFO

Time lapse of a Boeing 777-300ER landing at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

Shot on a Pixel 6 Pro in 10x timelapse mode wedged into a window with the blind closed. I thought I'd just get some clouds but happily the crew didn't force us to open all the blinds, so the video shows us entering California with heavy clouds (a plane with contrails going the other way right at the start), clouds clearing as we cross California and then the full landing. Bit of dirt on the window unfortunately but still quite happy with the result. The flight was from Frankfurt.

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(Published to the Fediverse as: Landing at SFO #timelapse #video #sfo #sanfrancisco #plane Time lapse video of a Boeing 777-300ER landing at SFO. )

Catfood WebCamSaver 3.30

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Sunday, January 22, 2023.

Catfood WebCamSaver 3.30

Catfood WebCamSaver 3.30 is now available to download. This release contains the latest webcam updates.

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More Bangalore Sunsets

More Bangalore Sunsets

A sequel to Bangalore Sunsets, from a different floor of the Shangri-La Hotel. In three of the four sequences you can see Bangalore Palace (featured more closely in More Bangalore).

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(Published to the Fediverse as: More Bangalore Sunsets #timelapse #video #bangalore #india #4k Timelapse from the 11th floor of the Shangri-La Hotel in Bangalore, Karnataka, India showing four different sunsets. )

Links for December 2022

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, December 31, 2022.