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.
More crack animation for NASA and the Sciencecast series.
From Python to Go We dove into Python years ago and now are wading into the Go language. Our team’s been using Python for a hells age, building applications in Plone, Django, Flask and Pyramid. It’s been very good to us and the communities are full of bright folks who are willing to share what…
If you are like me, and want to use volumetric atmosphere in a scene that incorporates the use of scanned imagery from Megascans (using their 2D scanned imagery known as Atlases) to populate the area, you are out of luck using the standard method of applying the images to planes and use the opacity channel…
We’ve been coming up to speed with Docker, planning to use it for deployments on AWS and GCE. I’ve tried it before and gotten a bit frustrated with the disconnect between my daily driver — a MacBook laptop — and the docker server; the cool kids running Linux laptops have no such issues. While boot2docker…
V! Studios develops high volume solution for extracting text from scanned documents faster and cheaper for NASA’s Johnson Space Center by utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda serverless technology. V! Studios, a creative technologies company, has developed a new high-speed, low-cost cloud-based solution for optical character recognition (OCR) and text extraction. Standard OCR software extracts…