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sand “boils” in Christchurch, NZ, from last week’s earthquake

via Through The Sandglass

printeresting:

Carl Cheng, Santa Monica Art Tool (we make money not art)

Microclimates by PostlerFerguson - air-conditioning hives (think large evaporative coolers) made out of 3D-printed sand

via BLDGBLOG

crab balls in the sand (by e-love)

Designs made by sand crabs (by Paricia Quinn)

pentagonal spiral (2005)

sand trace

via jean-pierre hébert

(via ecotone)

USB Hourglass random number generator by John Park

“It watches falling sand in an hourglass with an optical sensor. That data is sent via the Arduino USB output to the PC where it’s analyzed. This entropy is useful for all your random number needs. My favorite part: when the hourglass runs dry a servo motor flips it over and it starts again.”

via Boing Boing

this might have just replaced the lava lamp (LavaRnd) random number generator as my favorite RNG ever. for those playing at home, it’s now

1. this hourglass
2. lavarnd
3. random.org (using atmospheric noise)

60 Stunning Satellite Photos of Earth | Webdesigner Depot

Ocean Sand, Bahamas – Though the above image may resemble a new age painting straight out of an art gallery in Venice Beach, California, it is in fact a satellite image of the sands and seaweed in the Bahamas. The image was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) instrument aboard the Landsat 7 satellite. Tides and ocean currents in the Bahamas sculpted the sand and seaweed beds into these multicolored, fluted patterns in much the same way that winds sculpted the vast sand dunes in the Sahara Desert