[okfn-labs] great timelapse animation of world map with nuclear explosions history...

Mon Aug 27 11:39:43 UTC 2012

I had something similar in mind - to try out recline.js with heatmaps,
although so far I have just been messing around with
http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/heatmapjs/ for such an effect - without a
timeliner..

Since recline.js seems to use Leaflet for maps, Leaflet have recently
merged a plugin that supports a heatcanvas layer -
https://twitter.com/LeafletJS/status/236130036321759232 .

An example can be seen here -
http://sunng87.github.com/heatcanvas/leaflet.html . That along with some
auto-play timeline functionality could simulate the effect in the video

.. hope this helps :)

- Joel Rebello

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:32 PM, elf Pavlik
<perpetual-tripper at wwelves.org>wrote:

> ahoy!
>
> i find this visualization video a very powerful way of expressing data
> which in tabular way most of us couldn't relate to... maybe we timeliner
> with http://raphaeljs.com could offer similar capacity?
>
> A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto
> http://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY
>
> "Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary
> time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place
> between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity"
> test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of
> 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past
> decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear)..."
>
> cheers!
> ☮ elf pavlik ☮
>
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