Posts Tagged ‘visualization’

Cool Subway Maps

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

tokyo-metro-map-large-japanese

Unless you are a lost tourist, subway maps are fun to look at.  Check out treehugger’s slideshow of impressive subway maps.

Surface of the Sun

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

sunspot

What happens when scientists get their hands on a 76-teraflop supercomputer? Wired reports that this mind-boggling CPU power was used to create a simulation of a sunspot, modelling the sun’s magnetic processes at work over a region 31,000 miles by 62,000 miles, and with a depth of 3,700 miles. That is a lot of sun action – and we can just be thankful that the output is so completely gorgeous. Check out wired for the full story.