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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Pleasures of Vertical Scrolling


"QUANTUM SHOT" #173


Scrolling wheel workout for your computer mouse
+ visual feast for your eyes

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Yet another "computer specific" (or rather "monitor-specific") art-form is emerging on the net - images designed for viewing by scrolling down, and down, and down - to marvel at the VERTICALLY unfolding vistas. It also can be a bit disorienting... Have a look at these examples:


Art by Dinyctis, "Space Lane", Order prints here


The Dizzying Bridge

You may have seen this image circulating in emails around a year ago. This photograph is probably responsible for starting it all, and certainly works very well (especially if you keep scrolling up and down, creating the swinging effect)


(image source Mighty Optical Illusions - original unknown, please help)


Into the Forest

Tony Karp at Techno Impressionist Museum makes pictures that are too large for your browser window. They are often eclectic, but always seemless and intriguing. Here is an example, see more at his site.




Scrolling through the spiritual realm

A 39-foot long scroll created by Naxi people of Yunnan Province, China (around a year 1500) depicts the spiritual realms through which the deceased soul has to travel on its way to paradise. It has 103 sections and serves as a bridge for the soul to "reach the realm of the gods" (according to certain elements of Tibetian and Indian Tantric religions)

Here is the lower resolution version, showing only a part of this incredibly long scroll, but on this page you can view it complete and at "high res"!


(Image courtesy: Library of Congress, collected by Joseph Rock)


Scrolling into outer space

Found on Pruned via BldgBlog, here is a stupendous scrolling across the Jupiter's landscape (a cylindrical projection, stitched from the photos taken by Cassini spacecraft):


(Image courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Some interesting HORIZONTAL scrolling can be found here
(found on the Finnish military forum)

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  • HA HA i wonder how it must feel for the mom to have a spiny hedgehog comg out of their...well you know what.

    just wanna say great site! i visit everyday and ure site is like my source of entertainment and knowlegde everyday keep up the great work!
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  • awwwwh. still: look like foreskin with spikes to me.
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  • You've done it. You've beaten cuteoverload.com for cuteness of hedgehogs.
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  • oh i am flattered
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  • OMG they were so cute I've never seen baby Hedgehogs ..I wish I could hold one, too bad they get big and then you dont find them cute anymore..lol...
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    well, I'm from the north of Spain and i've hosted some hedgehogs at my garden, most of them as big as a hand or more. They never stayed with us mora than a few weeks but returned many times, no meaning about our german Shepard dog (they ate his food!!)

    Once we found a really small one, not so bigger than the displayed on the article but with developed spikes. He probably was left by his mom. We tried to feed him but he died in 2 weeks.

    The are wild animals; can“t hold in a place and have to live on their own, doing what they want, going where they feel like to.

    Nice article! Wonderful site! I follow you daily.

    PS: nice trick to touch them: rub them from head to back, they will relax spikes.
    And remember, no snails or slugs at home with a hedgehog around!
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  • Hey Avi, what part of Canada are you from? I, myself, am from Vancouver. As far as blogs are concerned, I think I have some material on my blog that might be of interest to you every so often (I think you know that already, though). And it is exciting that you're getting 50,000 pageviews a day. I believe, of course, that if you simply provide good content, people will know where to get the goods.
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  • We're from Calgary, and visit Vancouver quite often. Please write to the email provided, we'll stay in touch. I'd like to provide a place where people can submit and enjoy simply the best content in the universe ;)
    (... not counting digg and reddit, of course)
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  • The Iranian women's air force rocks my socks off. As far as the "Women Keep Your Virtue" video is concerned, I'm posting that tonight. That's bloody awesome.
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  • Ditto. That Harry Enfield piece was awesome! Comedy at its best. Thanks Avi!
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    All your job is more than very good.
    My best greetings
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    quite unreal
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  • The world in its most black nightmare.Another dimensoin of our too logical life.
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  • Ick.

    The animals may not mind, but I would.
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    These aren't dyed for fun, tho'. They put a chalking harness on the rams, each ram getting a different colour chalk. This is how the farmers know which ewe was bred by which ram.
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  • That is so cool and interesting.
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  • These animals are meant to be used for their wool and perhaps meat. I think dying them is unnecessary and cruel.

    Fred Smilek
    Email- Fred_Smilek@yahoo.com
    Webpage- http://sites.google.com/site/fredjsmilek/

    Fred Smilek is the acting president of the Society to Save Endangered Species. It was founded in 2006 by Fred Smilek along with his two best friends Charles and Jonathan.
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  • There is also the Swedish Navy 'Visby' class corvettes.
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  • Your 'mystery' photo looks like a scale model testbed for the US Navy's Zumewalt class destroyers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD%28X%29)
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  • here is more about the 'mystery-ship':

    http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/dd-x-sea-jet.htm
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  • Awesome stuff, Avi!
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  • some infiormationd found on google


    http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/dd-x-sea-jet.htm


    http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMV/2005aug0252.html
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  • sorry, wrong link, here's the right one: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/dd-x-sea-jet.htm
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  • Thanks for solving this!
    I'll include the info soon...
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  • Your mystery photo is a sub.

    http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowStory.aspx?StoryID=200503
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  • Er, the only clandestine purpose the Sea Shadow was ever used for was R&D. It's a testbed. The actual ship was not used for
    the Bond film; doesn't have a helicopter
    pad.
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  • That ship i'sn't the bond ship, the bond ship has a flat top. Here's a pic of the real bond ship:
    http://www.shanklinsailingclub.btinternet.co.uk/ali/boats/stealth.jpg
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