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Yesterday, we announced a trio of new maps on maps.stamen.com – we’ve had a lot of interest in how the watercolor map gets generated, so here’s the play-by-play. We’ll be using a section of London as an example:
To begin with, we wanted to capture so…
A reason that could contribute to so many of the badge systems around looking quite similar, is that badge designers don’t have many references to work from. It isn’t practical for badge designers or software developers to all become assessment e…
With 901 commits to the various branches on WebKit’s repository, last week brought highlights including the move of WTF and a new CSS property to aid usage of responsive images: image-set(). Following much discussion and preparation, including e-mail threads going back more than a year, Eric Seidel moved the WTF (Web Template Framework) code out [...]
Jon Bruner of Forbes, in collaboration with Hilary Mason and Anna Smith of Bitly, maps the most popular news source …
The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab is accepting nominations for visiting instructors to its ongoing digital humanities training / workshop series for the 2012-13 academic year. This series runs aligned with, and outside of, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.
One such workshop, an Introduction to TEI led by Malte Rehbein (Wurzburg), ran over the March 24th weekend [...]
The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab is accepting nominations for visiting instructors to its ongoing digital humanities training / workshop series for the 2012-13 academic year. This series runs aligned with, and outside of, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.
One such workshop, an Introduction to TEI led by Malte Rehbein (Wurzburg), ran over the March 24th weekend [...]
The Humanities program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design currently under review. MIAD is a four year college of art and design offering a BFA degree in 14 different majors. One third of the credits that students earn are i…
From the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library comes this beautiful portrait of Ada Byron: writer, mathematician and daughter of the poet Lord Byron. Painted around 1835, this portrait depicts the future Countess of Lovelace as a teenager, just as her interest and talent in mathematics became [...]
Fancy seeing the world’s first 3D projection-mapped infographic animations? Along with ad agency DDB London and the Financial Times, we helped gather data and shape some of the stories for three short infographic films which will be projection-mapped on the inside of Grand Central Station in New York! Go see! (Projection-mapping throws a 3D model [...]
On 29 and 30 March I attended ThatCamp Luxembourg / Trier in order to give a joint workshop on the Text Encoding Initiative. Having not had the chance to attend a ThatCamp before I have to say that I am really impressed by how int…
DVCAM (encoding)Type: Digital videotape cassette encoding Introduced: 1996 Active: Yes, but few new camcorders are being produced. Cessation: – Capacity: 184 minutes (large), 40 minutes (MiniDV). Compatibility: DVCAM is …
DV (encoding)Type: Digital videotape cassette encoding Introduced: 1995 Active: Yes, but tapeless formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 are becoming more popular. Cessation: – Capacity: MiniDV cassettes can hold up to 80/1…
DV can be used to refer to both a digital tape format, and a codec for digital video. DV tape usually carries video encoded with the DV codec, although it can hold any type of data. The DV format was developed in the mid 1990s by a consortium of video …
