ScienceCasts: Reshuffling Heat on a Warming Planet
Way cool animation on this ScienceCast for the Science Mission Directorate of NASA.
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ScienceCasts: Monitoring Air Quality
How did we miss sharing this one? A global effort to monitor air quality is in the works as the US, Korea, and the European Union prepare to launch geostationary satellites capable of monitoring pollutants and other aerosols. Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more.
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Use anti-RSI
A quick and dirty tip for keeping yourself alert and healthy at work: use an anti-RSI app. I’ve been using Time Out for years and have found it great for keeping my eyes fresh, my wrists free from carpal tunnel, and blood flowing to my legs. We hear so much information about standing (or sitting) at work…
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ScienceCasts: Planetary Defense
Another great video from NASA Science. Where do they get that amazing animation?
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V! Studios Joins Instagram. Like and Follow, It’s Kind of the Thing to Do.
While we have long had a presence on Facebook and Twitter, V! Studios has joined the ever-growing ranks of Instagram. V! Studios has joined the world of Instagram, or, as the kids now call it, the Gram. #coderlife #justcoderthings #helloworld #python #codelife #programming A photo posted by V!Studios (@the_v_studios) on May 24, 2016 at 11:48am…
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Animating and Rendering Large Data Sets
Photo of eight-foot tall prints, with detail. Click for larger view. We were recently given the task of producing a series of animations and high resolution still images based on very dense 3D scan data from an archaeological dig site. The site included four graves and their remains along with an artifact. The data from the…
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Why Use MP4?
MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia format which acts like a wrapper for video and audio files. One huge benefit of MP4 is that the format allows for using different video codecs, such as h.264, which allow for better compression while still providing high quality video/audio but smaller file sizes. Smaller file…
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V! Team Receives an Award from NASA
Congratulations to the V! Studio’s EDRD Team! V! Studios received an award from the NASA Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) Office for creating the EVA Drawing Repository Dashboard (EDRD) Demo. The Office of the CIO commented “You guys deliver!” The Demo is a Proof of Concept to enable real-time access to EVA data during missions. NASA pursued…
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Going in the Deep End
Thoughts after using Go on a few projects. We have been Wading into Go on some projects recently. In fact we have been using it on small and throw away projects for a while. We first used Go in anger to manage transfering and updating ~500,000 unique files (~1TB total) from an EBS volume to S3. It was my…
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XBMC, Is It Right For You?
XBMC, or Kodi as it will be named in the future, is an open source media hub that can be installed on a variety of operating systems such as Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS and Android. The platform allows users to play and access networked digital media files on computers, handheld mobile devices, and televisions that…