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Pomegranate Bear - artwork by Lawrence Yang
Fresh pomegranate juice has an amazing color to it, so I tried bursting some seeds on a scrap of paper... and then I made a bear out of it.
How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools | FlowingData
yeah!make a choropleth map. You know, the maps that color regions by some metric. … In this post, I'll show you how to make a county-specific choropleth map using only free tools.
25 Tools, Cheat Sheets and Inspiration for Designers working with Color Themes | tripwire magazine
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October 2009
Cartogrammar.com | Blog » Flickr as a paintbrush
This being a blog about maps, I of course mean Harvard not as a school but as a geographic entity. What color is the landscape, physical and cultural? When people look around at whatever interests them, what colors are they looking at?
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Time/Weather Desktop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.
Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.
In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".
Times are generated by running shell commands like
env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"
every 20 seconds
The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.
FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)
From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.
Voyage à Kyushu - journal - 5e jour | Color Lounge
Après Takachiho, l’autre grande motivation pour ma venue à Kyushu est de voir un volcan en activité.
September 2009
We are Colorblind » Patterns for the Color Blind
The patterns and examples on this site help you create websites the color blind can use without problems.
We are Colorblind » Patterns for the Color Blind
About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites.
We are Colorblind » Patterns for the Color Blind
About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites.
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