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Really? (Prolly not, but I'll bite.) Here we have a small showcase where a company took pictures of Earth from space - something that when described clumsily b
by HCIdivision17 13y ago
Really? (Prolly not, but I'll bite.)
Here we have a small showcase where a company took pictures of Earth from space - something that when described clumsily by second hand observers has brought tears to people's eyes - and their goal is to build a base layer that is the idealized, cloudless view of our planet in peak vibrancy.
A map of paradise.
And it's generated by a clever, possibly elegant, algorithm using tools anyone could use (aside from a massive server farm).
This is perhaps the most appropriately, unambiguously beautiful thing I've personally seen here.
- celoyd 13y agoa clever, possibly elegant, algorithm It’s just barely clever enough that no one thought of it before. It has to be really simple, because the innermost loop (estimating how cloudy a given pixel is) runs several trillion times. using tools anyone could use (aside from a massive server farm) EC2’s m2.4xlarge (> 64 gigs of memory, 8 decent cores) is going for $0.14/hour right now. You could run ten of those all day and spend less than on dinner at a restaurant with cloth napkins.