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I made this, and I’m happy to answer questions. (And to politely ignore contentious remarks about how I characterized GOES-R.)

by celoyd 11y ago

antidamage 11y ago
How come you pointed it at Australia and not NZ :( Also, it'd be nice to be able to pause it and really take in the colours.
- celoyd 11y ago
  Also, it'd be nice to be able to pause it and really take in the colors. You can zoom in on the NICT browser: http://himawari8.nict.go.jp http://himawari8.nict.go.jp Their color mix is more cloud-oriented, so it’s darker, but at least the image quality is higher than the video’s.
- caf 11y ago
  In Firefox at least the context menu includes "Pause".
- seanalltogether 11y ago
  https://s3.amazonaws.com/hi8/v/2015-08-03.mp4 https://s3.amazonaws.com/hi8/v/2015-08-03.mp4 There's the raw video. Added bonus is that it actually fits in the full browser window when viewed directly.
  - Tepix 11y ago
    Thanks. It's a 2200x2200 24fps H.264 video (33MB).
alainv 11y ago
Beautiful, thanks for sharing.
danielvf 11y ago
Thanks! This was increadable to watch over and over again. I'm so used to highly compressed video, that the detail in this was staggering. Is there a good public reasonably live feed of this data? I found the 800x800 8 bit pngs, and I found information on the restricted access full sized 103 gigabyte per day feed.
- deleted 11y ago
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- celoyd 11y ago
  Is there a good public reasonably live feed of this data? Right here: http://himawari8.nict.go.jp http://himawari8.nict.go.jp
  - detaro 11y ago
    How awesome would it be if we had that kind if quality available from all "sides"... (Ok, yes, one could mostly build displays of blue spheres. But fancy ones ;))
  - danielvf 11y ago
    Fantastic! Thank you! I've cropped several as desktop wall paper.
    - pantalaimon 11y ago
      Why not make a cron job that does that automatically every couple minutes ;)
      - danielvf 11y ago
        That's the plan! It just need to be intelligent enough to find interesting lighting.
        sp332 11y ago
kevingadd 11y ago
Cool demo. On my machine though (high-dpi monitor, win10, firefox) the globe is enormous and way too big for the browser viewport. If I zoom out enough with ctrl-minus it is about the right size, so I think you're sizing the page elements incorrectly in some sort of dpi-unaware fashion. Can probably work around this with devicePixelRatio.
- celoyd 11y ago
  I know it’s odd, but I wanted it not to be visible all at once.
  - benjamincburns 11y ago
    FWIW, I really appreciated this. I think it helped add to the feeling of enormity, and helped me to realize the resolution of the video.
    - err4nt 11y ago
      FWIW I don't think ‘enormity’ means what you think it does! ‘Enormity’ refers to severe moral transgression, like you could say, “It wasn't until after the war had ended that the German people became aware of the enormity of Hitler's concentration camps…” That's closer to what the word means.
  - ambicapter 11y ago
    I appreciate that choice, but maybe add a zoom out button to notify people that you can in fact zoom out, because I didn't even realize I could see the whole earth (Also, this made the 'what is that bright spot moving east to west' question very confusing).
    - betenoire 11y ago
      <ctrl>- Repeat as necessary. Went too far? <ctrl>+ When done, <ctrl>0 (on chrome at least)
skybrian 11y ago
This is great, but it would be nice if there were a way to slow it down a bit.
- chib 11y ago
  document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 0.1;
Zaheer 11y ago
Thanks for the super informative FAQ in Credits/About - for others visiting the site, be sure not to miss it on top left!
Tepix 11y ago
I'd love to have something like this as an animated desktop wallpaper - but it should be moving much slower. Are you aware of a movie file that I could use for this?
- lolc 11y ago
  Try xplanet. Xplanet can render to the background and keep an updated view of earth. At some point I obsessed over having current cloud cover images overlaid and that looked really nice. It can even render sun reflections.
- glandium 11y ago
  I wrote a script that downloads the live (well, every 10 minutes, with 30 minutes delay) tiles from the himawari-8 website and update my background with it. Gnome is nice enough that it refreshes the background when the configured image changes. I'm waiting for the solar eclipse in March, it should be (indirectly) visible. http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2016-march-9 http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2016-march-9
  - namtrac 11y ago
    Sounds nice, do you have it up somewhere?
    - glandium 11y ago
      Now on https://github.com/glandium/himawari-wallpaper https://github.com/glandium/himawari-wallpaper (I'm not actually sure the eclipse will be visible on the cut I'm using)
      - namtrac 11y ago
        Thanks!
rajacombinator 11y ago
Beautiful! Well done.
thepiwo 11y ago
Thanks for making it! I tried a little with your scripts and got to these results: (original files available if you ask) 1 Day in 4400x4400: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_orOM8zOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_orOM8zOg 1 Month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwN2KJcQfoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwN2KJcQfoQ 11000x11000 Sunset: https://i.imgur.com/wMIXQvC.jpg https://i.imgur.com/wMIXQvC.jpg 11000x11000 Daylight: http://i.imgur.com/y1zTyU2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/y1zTyU2.jpg

I made this, and I’m happy to answer questions. (And to politely ignore contentious remarks about how I characterized GOES-R.)

by celoyd 11y ago

I made this, and I’m happy to answer questions. (And to politely ignore contentious remarks about how I characterized GOES-R.)

antidamage 11y ago

How come you pointed it at Australia and not NZ :( Also, it'd be nice to be able to pause it and really take in the colours.

celoyd 11y ago
Also, it'd be nice to be able to pause it and really take in the colors. You can zoom in on the NICT browser: http://himawari8.nict.go.jp http://himawari8.nict.go.jp Their color mix is more cloud-oriented, so it’s darker, but at least the image quality is higher than the video’s.
caf 11y ago
In Firefox at least the context menu includes "Pause".
seanalltogether 11y ago
https://s3.amazonaws.com/hi8/v/2015-08-03.mp4 https://s3.amazonaws.com/hi8/v/2015-08-03.mp4 There's the raw video. Added bonus is that it actually fits in the full browser window when viewed directly.
- Tepix 11y ago
  Thanks. It's a 2200x2200 24fps H.264 video (33MB).

alainv 11y ago

Beautiful, thanks for sharing.

danielvf 11y ago

Thanks! This was increadable to watch over and over again. I'm so used to highly compressed video, that the detail in this was staggering. Is there a good public reasonably live feed of this data? I found the 800x800 8 bit pngs, and I found information on the restricted access full sized 103 gigabyte per day feed.

deleted 11y ago
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celoyd 11y ago
Is there a good public reasonably live feed of this data? Right here: http://himawari8.nict.go.jp http://himawari8.nict.go.jp
- detaro 11y ago
  How awesome would it be if we had that kind if quality available from all "sides"... (Ok, yes, one could mostly build displays of blue spheres. But fancy ones ;))
- danielvf 11y ago
  Fantastic! Thank you! I've cropped several as desktop wall paper.
  - pantalaimon 11y ago
    Why not make a cron job that does that automatically every couple minutes ;)
    - danielvf 11y ago
      That's the plan! It just need to be intelligent enough to find interesting lighting.
      - sp332 11y ago

kevingadd 11y ago

Cool demo. On my machine though (high-dpi monitor, win10, firefox) the globe is enormous and way too big for the browser viewport. If I zoom out enough with ctrl-minus it is about the right size, so I think you're sizing the page elements incorrectly in some sort of dpi-unaware fashion. Can probably work around this with devicePixelRatio.

celoyd 11y ago
I know it’s odd, but I wanted it not to be visible all at once.
- benjamincburns 11y ago
  FWIW, I really appreciated this. I think it helped add to the feeling of enormity, and helped me to realize the resolution of the video.
  - err4nt 11y ago
    FWIW I don't think ‘enormity’ means what you think it does! ‘Enormity’ refers to severe moral transgression, like you could say, “It wasn't until after the war had ended that the German people became aware of the enormity of Hitler's concentration camps…” That's closer to what the word means.
- ambicapter 11y ago
  I appreciate that choice, but maybe add a zoom out button to notify people that you can in fact zoom out, because I didn't even realize I could see the whole earth (Also, this made the 'what is that bright spot moving east to west' question very confusing).
  - betenoire 11y ago
    <ctrl>- Repeat as necessary. Went too far? <ctrl>+ When done, <ctrl>0 (on chrome at least)

skybrian 11y ago

This is great, but it would be nice if there were a way to slow it down a bit.

chib 11y ago
document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 0.1;

Zaheer 11y ago

Thanks for the super informative FAQ in Credits/About - for others visiting the site, be sure not to miss it on top left!

Tepix 11y ago

I'd love to have something like this as an animated desktop wallpaper - but it should be moving much slower. Are you aware of a movie file that I could use for this?

lolc 11y ago
Try xplanet. Xplanet can render to the background and keep an updated view of earth. At some point I obsessed over having current cloud cover images overlaid and that looked really nice. It can even render sun reflections.
glandium 11y ago
I wrote a script that downloads the live (well, every 10 minutes, with 30 minutes delay) tiles from the himawari-8 website and update my background with it. Gnome is nice enough that it refreshes the background when the configured image changes. I'm waiting for the solar eclipse in March, it should be (indirectly) visible. http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2016-march-9 http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2016-march-9
- namtrac 11y ago
  Sounds nice, do you have it up somewhere?
  - glandium 11y ago
    Now on https://github.com/glandium/himawari-wallpaper https://github.com/glandium/himawari-wallpaper (I'm not actually sure the eclipse will be visible on the cut I'm using)
    - namtrac 11y ago
      Thanks!

rajacombinator 11y ago

Beautiful! Well done.

thepiwo 11y ago

Thanks for making it! I tried a little with your scripts and got to these results: (original files available if you ask) 1 Day in 4400x4400: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_orOM8zOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_orOM8zOg 1 Month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwN2KJcQfoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwN2KJcQfoQ 11000x11000 Sunset: https://i.imgur.com/wMIXQvC.jpg https://i.imgur.com/wMIXQvC.jpg 11000x11000 Daylight: http://i.imgur.com/y1zTyU2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/y1zTyU2.jpg