27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
Alien-like chatter of the world’s deepest lake as photographer shares eerie sounds of newly-formed ice. Alexey Kolganov films himself skating on transparent ice of lake Baikal, as new cracks form under his skates
Bro that is literally nature telling you to stop
Lake Baikal is just like that
always something new with this fucking lake
Geometric GIFs by Florian de Looij
Designer Florian de Looij’s playful GIFs’ geometrical nature lends itself to designing an interesting GIF. By transforming, regenerating, slicing and altering the shape of each figure into smaller singular representations of the whole, the artist creates a fun setting. Deviating from a cold standard design, where mainly the colors black, white and silver are used Florian de Looij implements a vibrant scheme to rejuvenate the typical geometric GIF.
View the artist’s entire portfolio here!
its a simple transparent theme with some cool options wowee
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feel free to ask me any coding questions or contact me if u have any problems w/ this theme~
*EDIT: i’ve updated this theme!! it can be found here
I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.
In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.
Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.
Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.
Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!
Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.
In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)
And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.
And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'
All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.
Solar energy that doesn’t block the view
A team of researchers at Michigan State University has developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over a window creates solar energy while allowing people to actually see through the window. It is called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator and can be used on buildings, cell phones and any other device that has a clear surface. And, according to Richard Lunt of MSU’s College of Engineering, the key word is “transparent.”
[read more at MSU] [paper] [picture credit: Yimu Zhao]
that’s not just…. a pattern? … 😰
It’s based off of a real type of frog that’s transparent!
“Here in the Pacific, 200 metres down, we enter an alien world… This is barreleye a fish with a transparent head filled with jelly so that it can look up through its skull.” - Sir David Attenborough
Blue Planet II
Not to be 20 yrs late to a party but I started playing kotor and it’s p neat
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