Zooming into the Mandelbrot Set is always fun but I feel it's often a bit static and would be enlivened by a good spin so you can corkscrew your way down. Enjoy:
This was cloud rendered over two weeks using a Google Compute Engine high CPU instance (on a free trial, thanks Google).
I used the coordinates from a video posted by metafis on YouTube and a palette approach posted by Alex Russell on Stack Overflow.
The music is Flaming Memories generated by JukeDeck.
This timelapse contains edited highlights from January 2015 to January 2016. I have a Nest Cam (previously DropCam) pointed at the Pacific from the back of my house. To create the footage I grab a frame every 20 seconds and save it to Google Drive using Google Apps Script. I fire up a program about once a week that creates a daily timelapse movie from the frames.
The music on the video is from the excellent JukeDeck. This particular track was randomly but happily called California Battle.
As well as the conventional timelapses I'm creating a couple of different videos from all of the footage. More over the next few months.
Bayview Rise is a large work of art created by Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan installed at Port Pier 92 in the Bayview district of San Francisco.
3/5
It's a prequel - how Hutch became Hutch - and because of that it's a bit limited in scope. Comfortable filler with a few good moments - worth reading for completeists.
Wisdom teeth removal is rarely necessary
Glad to hear it because my dentist is always wanting to rip out my wisdom teeth and I've always refused...
Case made for 'ninth planet'
Can we call it Pluto?
A few people have asked for 3D shape support in my ESRI Shapefile library. I've never got around to it, but CodePlex user ekleiman has forked a version in his ESRI Shapefile to Image Convertor that supports PointZ, PolygonZ and PolyLineZ shapes. If that's what you need please check it out.
San Bruno Mountain State Park has outstanding views of San Francisco, the Pacific out to the Farallon Islands and much of the bay. We did the three mile summit loop (the wrong way round, San Bruno pros do it counter-clockwise).
Hike starts at 37.6888964,-122.437008 (Google Earth).
3/5
I always want to like Kim Stanley Robinson more than i do, this time was no different. It's a generation ship colonization story with a pretty decent if depressing twist and I really enjoyed the fist half of the book. After that it gets pretty slow and repetitive and then ends in a pretty unsatisfying and trite way.
360 degree 4K timelapse from Mount Davidson, the highest peak in San Francisco. Shot in five segments.
Robert Ellison's blog, I Thought He Came With You, on the Fediverse via fed.brid.gy. Photography, time lapse, programming, politics, hikes and more.
