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Carbon Globe (Robbie Tilton)

via Visualising Data

carbon emissions as smoke

Google Error by Marco Cadioli 

via TRIANGULATION BLOG

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The Sound Of The Earth by Yuri Suzuki 

A globe-like spherical record with grooves arranged as world map, playing music related to geo-political positions:

THE SOUND OF EARTH BY YURI SUZUKI from Alice Masters on Vimeo.

The Sound of the Earth is a content of Yuri Suzuki`s spherical record project, the grooves representing
the outlines of the geographic land mass.  
Each country on the disc is engraved with a different sound, as the needle passes over it plays field
recordings collected by Yuri Suzuki from around the world over the course of four years;
traditional folk music, national anthems, popular music and spoken word broadcasts.

An aural journey around the world in 30 minutes.

You can find out more at Yuri’s website here, which includes a full audio recording of the piece.

paper world (makerie studio)

via . of paper and things .

Cloud Globe (Chrome Experiments)

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One of the First Computer-Generated Films, from 1963 - AT&T Archives 

A short, simple 3D animation of a satellite object orbiting a globe:

This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space. Edward E. Zajac made, and narrated, the film, which is considered to be possibly the very first computer graphics film ever. Zajac programmed the calculations in FORTRAN, then used a program written by Zajac’s colleague, Frank Sinden, called ORBIT. The original computations were fed into the computer via punch cards, then the output was printed onto microfilm using the General Dynamics Electronics Stromberg-Carlson 4020 microfilm recorder. All computer processing was done on an IBM 7090 or 7094 series computer.

Zajac didn’t make the film to demonstrate computer graphics, however. Instead, he was interested in real-time modeling of a certain theoretical construct. At the time, The Bell System was still deeply engaged in satellite research, having launched Telstar the previous year, with plans to continue developing communications satellites. Zajac’s model is of a box (“satellite”), with two gyroscopes within. In the film, he was trying to create a simulation of movement — the pitch, roll, and yaw within that system. 

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World Trip (Takuro Yamamoto), glass aquarium

via DesignBoom

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Geografia, a collaboration between two Japanese studios, makes remarkable geography-inspired paper objects blending craft, cartography, and cutting-edge printing.

Water Underground (UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling)- global groundwater fluctuations (left: Sept 2004; right: March, 2011)

10 Years of Fires on Earth Seen from Space (from 2002 on)

via Wired Science

africa contributed 70% of the world’s blazes over the years