The Moon

Here’s a new visualization technology I created in 2021. This is the Luminous Cartographic Display: a physical 3D map with internal illumination that creates realistic renderings of terrain, day and night cycles, environmental phenomena, and data visualizations. The physical 3D map display renders ‘pixel art’ animations created in blender, combining GIS data, lighting specific to days of the year, satellite images, and animation created with physics sprites and manual pixel-by-pixel editing. The piece was designed and fabricated by Tactile Terrain (me, James Tyrwhitt-Drake) with assistance from Metrographics Art + Design. It features the area around Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, and is on display at the Waterton Visitor Centre if you want to visit it. It is the most complex 3D map I have created to date. If you are curious about this piece or my other cartographic artwork, check out TactileTerrain.ca

lockscreens from nasa 🪐

Marco De Archangelis 

Sun Fun Facts

For my twenty-third Evangelion book review, here is Evangelion Racing RQ: Sentou to Nichijou (Evangelion Racing RQ: Combat and Everyday).  It contains photographs – mostly in full color – of the race queens from the official Evangelion Racing team of 2012.  This book is not available in English or French, but it’s all pictures except for the credits at the beginning and end of the book, so this isn’t much of an issue.  However, the book comes with a DVD that is in Japanese.  More on that later.

The photographer is a woman named Maki Taguchi, and the five models are Noa Mizutani (Rei), Yuuna Chiba (Asuka), Mana Takatsuka (Mari), Haruna Noro (Shinji), and Hana Uneme (Kaworu).  The Shinji and Kaworu models’ outfits have shorts instead of miniskirts, but they still rock those high heels, as Kaworu demonstrates with Asuka here:

Wow, fierce!  Keep reading for the rest of the book review, plus a few more pictures!

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Masamune Shirow

We’ve finally added Pluto to the family portrait of the Solar System