I am surprised more film people don't make short movies of their 'concepts', and use them as a demo to pitch to major studios/investors. If I were a film executive, I would be much more willing to consider spending $ on someone who would take that much initiative on their own dime. Also, you could sell the short film to recoup some of your costs (even if it doesn't get picked up).
ExxonMobil Morning Mixer for Students: Wednesday, 10 December, Yerba Buena Ballroom Salon 9, San Francisco Marriott, 6:30-8:00 A.M
A complimentary breakfast will be held in honor of all graduate and undergraduate students registered for the meeting. Students will have the opportunity to hear an overview of AGU programs that serve its student members, meet with AGU leadership and representatives from ExxonMobil, and network with other students and future colleagues attending the meeting.
In addition to space astronomy, Spitzer's work greatly advanced knowledge in other fields, including stellar dynamics, plasma physics, and thermonuclear fusion.
He must have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night!
Re:[Q] Hi-Res Elsewhere? [Q] Quality Print?
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Are high resolution satellite/aerial images available for other locations?
Yes. Do a google for your state/province and "GIS data". Most US states have some sort of FTP setup with elevation maps, aerial images, and topographic maps to download.
No, I don't expect to be able to buy hi-res images of Area 51, but was looking for my neighborhood.
Actually, I used to work for Space Imaging, and their conference demo was a 3D flyover of Area51 that had elevation and 1-meter resolution color imagery. To get a quickie on your neighborhood, check out Terraserver.
Also, are there ways of getting really nice poster prints of high resolution images?
www.mytopo.com
USGS extension office
Space Imaging has some famous stuff for sale as posters (pyramids, WTC site, etc.)
It is more significant to know the image resolution than the file size. This is represented by the number of ground units a single pixel takes up. 5 meter resolution refers to each pixel being 5 square meters (obviously). For mapping grade imagery, you want at least 5 meters. The standard is moving much closer to 1 meter as companies like Space Imaging start to dominate the market.
The performance is TERRIBLE on single large images, if you plan to use it at multiple zoom scales. It is much more efficient to have a spatially indexed series of seamless smaller images. This index, known as an image catalog in the GIS world, is basically a database with image coordinates and file names. When you zoom in to a given area on the map, the geographic coordinates are used to determine which images to display.
It is possible to compress the file size using such means as jpeg, but this is not thought of very highly in the mapping world. The ideal is to have a georeferenced (has a *.tfw header file that contains the coordinates for one of the image corners) tiff file, and to add compression using a package like MrSID. People who use air photos frequently will have two datasets: a compressed one and a standard tiff. It is much easier to change a map projection on an uncompressed image.
If you have some $, there is a software package called SDE that enables high performance raster display for mapping purposes. It works really well, but you are getting locked into a highly proprietary and expensive format.
I was an ecology student in college, when I started using GIS to track some research. Promptly switched from botany to geography, and I am now a GIS consultant.
You might also be interested in the Online Oklahoma Hunting Atlas developed by our company. It is pretty cool, call your wildlife department and tell them you want one.:) Make sure to look at the topographic maps, aerial photos, and elevation shading.
Step 1: Develop spacecraft with the capacity to traverse, and navigate accurately, distances measured in lightyears.
Step 2: Arrive at the watery planet.
Step 3: It sure would be nice to have some knowledge of biology and deep sea diving so you could SEE WHAT IS ON THE WATERY PLANET.
If the surface of Mars was covered in water, you can bet that every probe being sent would have some type of submersible payload to cruise around and measure water temp, currents, chemical properties, gather depth profiles, and look for living organisms.
Any experience garnered while learning about our own planet's oceans would be beneficial.
Terragen makes attractive 3D layouts. It is both free and easy to use.
It is essentially useless for geospatial analysis (I haven't messed around with it in a couple of years, so who knows), but it is remarkably easy to make some cool terrain, add vegetation, and brew up some clouds on the horizon.
The problem may be the definition of success. If your goal is to become famous, open source development probably isn't for you. If your goal is to become influential, open source development probably isn't for you.
No fame, no influence, no dollar bills - what motivates people to do it? This is not a troll, looking for answers from RealPeople(tm).
If you are basing your video game on a movie, you spend lots of cashish on licensing the brand name. Thus, less money gets spent on development. They are relying on the FRANCHISE to sell the game, not the fun-factor or the mechanics of it. Can someone say Harry Potter?
I can't speak for everyone, but I can't think of one exceptional game based on a movie.
Hire creative people to make creative games, and only use movie rights to sell commodity crap like happy meals and automobiles.
The bad guys have even worse computer security than the US does. Besides, our hackers are better, anyway. (these guys owned an Arab bank to get Osama's account info).
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about windows are the themed 'schemes' that people can load.
i am doing an install at a clients PC today, and I absolutely hate wagging around the "reigndeer" pointer that goes with the X-mas scheme. This feature should be disable on "windows professional", and be relegated to home users.
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This is the best short film I've ever seen
I am surprised more film people don't make short movies of their 'concepts', and use them as a demo to pitch to major studios/investors. If I were a film executive, I would be much more willing to consider spending $ on someone who would take that much initiative on their own dime. Also, you could sell the short film to recoup some of your costs (even if it doesn't get picked up).
"Piping" is a long hole surrounded by a solid material
That's hilarious, you should get an award for that definition.
While at the conference, be sure to attend:
ExxonMobil Morning Mixer for Students: Wednesday, 10 December, Yerba Buena Ballroom Salon 9, San Francisco Marriott, 6:30-8:00 A.M
A complimentary breakfast will be held in honor of all graduate and undergraduate students registered for the meeting. Students will have the opportunity to hear an overview of AGU programs that serve its student members, meet with AGU leadership and representatives from ExxonMobil, and network with other students and future colleagues attending the meeting.
(don't believe me?)
Allen hopes Rutan's ship will win the $10 million X-Prize to help kickstart private manned space flight.
If he was that worried about it, he could cough up 10 million without too much trouble. Larry Ellison's yacht cost more than that.
Allen probably just likes being the patron saint of technology.
with a digital camera, ipod, or an xbox w/ halo.
It's like cocaine, you just have to get them started...
In addition to space astronomy, Spitzer's work greatly advanced knowledge in other fields, including stellar dynamics, plasma physics, and thermonuclear fusion.
He must have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night!
Glazier's an electronic poet, a web poet
This sounds like a Geocities homepage to me...
Are high resolution satellite/aerial images available for other locations?
Yes. Do a google for your state/province and "GIS data". Most US states have some sort of FTP setup with elevation maps, aerial images, and topographic maps to download.
No, I don't expect to be able to buy hi-res images of Area 51, but was looking for my neighborhood.
Actually, I used to work for Space Imaging, and their conference demo was a 3D flyover of Area51 that had elevation and 1-meter resolution color imagery. To get a quickie on your neighborhood, check out Terraserver.
Also, are there ways of getting really nice poster prints of high resolution images?
www.mytopo.com
USGS extension office
Space Imaging has some famous stuff for sale as posters (pyramids, WTC site, etc.)
I have found MrSID compression to be extremely lossy beyond about 20:1. (That's still alot!) I agree - jpegs suck for mapping. My 0.02.
It is more significant to know the image resolution than the file size. This is represented by the number of ground units a single pixel takes up. 5 meter resolution refers to each pixel being 5 square meters (obviously). For mapping grade imagery, you want at least 5 meters. The standard is moving much closer to 1 meter as companies like Space Imaging start to dominate the market.
The performance is TERRIBLE on single large images, if you plan to use it at multiple zoom scales. It is much more efficient to have a spatially indexed series of seamless smaller images. This index, known as an image catalog in the GIS world, is basically a database with image coordinates and file names. When you zoom in to a given area on the map, the geographic coordinates are used to determine which images to display.
It is possible to compress the file size using such means as jpeg, but this is not thought of very highly in the mapping world. The ideal is to have a georeferenced (has a *.tfw header file that contains the coordinates for one of the image corners) tiff file, and to add compression using a package like MrSID. People who use air photos frequently will have two datasets: a compressed one and a standard tiff. It is much easier to change a map projection on an uncompressed image.
If you have some $, there is a software package called SDE that enables high performance raster display for mapping purposes. It works really well, but you are getting locked into a highly proprietary and expensive format.
Maybe they could bring the Hubble back for a 10th the cost.......?
Even if they only got a 10th of it for us, we could put it in the Smithsonian.
Not only are the formats arcane, but the (stupid) government seems to publish everything in some oddball map projection (UTM Zone *).
You can make a decent living writing scripts to convert data and make it usable.
I was an ecology student in college, when I started using GIS to track some research. Promptly switched from botany to geography, and I am now a GIS consultant.
:) Make sure to look at the topographic maps, aerial photos, and elevation shading.
You might also be interested in the Online Oklahoma Hunting Atlas developed by our company. It is pretty cool, call your wildlife department and tell them you want one.
My point was simply this:
Step 1:
Develop spacecraft with the capacity to traverse, and navigate accurately, distances measured in lightyears.
Step 2:
Arrive at the watery planet.
Step 3:
It sure would be nice to have some knowledge of biology and deep sea diving so you could SEE WHAT IS ON THE WATERY PLANET.
If the surface of Mars was covered in water, you can bet that every probe being sent would have some type of submersible payload to cruise around and measure water temp, currents, chemical properties, gather depth profiles, and look for living organisms.
Any experience garnered while learning about our own planet's oceans would be beneficial.
Wow, another GISer on Slashdot (not too many).
Terragen makes attractive 3D layouts. It is both free and easy to use.
It is essentially useless for geospatial analysis (I haven't messed around with it in a couple of years, so who knows), but it is remarkably easy to make some cool terrain, add vegetation, and brew up some clouds on the horizon.
We have 2/3's of a watery planet right here, that we are yet to explore in great detail.
The problem may be the definition of success. If your goal is to become famous, open source development probably isn't for you. If your goal is to become influential, open source development probably isn't for you.
No fame, no influence, no dollar bills - what motivates people to do it? This is not a troll, looking for answers from RealPeople(tm).
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This is the UK - I'm surprised their "anti-spam bill" isn't comprised of a 10p flat tax on every outgoing email...
If you are basing your video game on a movie, you spend lots of cashish on licensing the brand name. Thus, less money gets spent on development. They are relying on the FRANCHISE to sell the game, not the fun-factor or the mechanics of it. Can someone say Harry Potter?
I can't speak for everyone, but I can't think of one exceptional game based on a movie.
Hire creative people to make creative games, and only use movie rights to sell commodity crap like happy meals and automobiles.
The bad guys have even worse computer security than the US does. Besides, our hackers are better, anyway. (these guys owned an Arab bank to get Osama's account info).
Do you have a URL for the electronic whiteboard you purchased? Does it work as advertised?
The aliens will be looking down at Earth, and say:
"Dude, there is a 30-meter blinking eye, right there on the surface of that blue planet."
This report card was supposed to be classified.
about windows are the themed 'schemes' that people can load.
i am doing an install at a clients PC today, and I absolutely hate wagging around the "reigndeer" pointer that goes with the X-mas scheme. This feature should be disable on "windows professional", and be relegated to home users.
Gag - this is worse than Clippy.