| | Apollo 11 lunar landing told through data Jan 04, 2012 10:47 pm • Permalink From Yanni Loukissas of the MIT Laboratory for Automation, Robotics, and Society, comes the story of the Apollo 11 lunar landing told via multiple time series running in parallel and the back and forth between astronauts and mission control. The Apollo 11 visualization draws together social and technical data from the 1969 moon landing in a dynamic 2D graphic. The horizontal axis is an interactive timeline. The vertical axis is divided into several sections, each corresponding to a data source. At the top, commentators are present in narratives from Digital Apollo and NASA technical debriefings. Just below are the members of ground control. The middle section is a log-scale graph stretching from Earth (~10E9 ft. away) to the Moon. Utterances from the landing CAPCOM, Duke, the command module pilot, Collins, the mission commander, Armstrong, and the lunar module pilot, Aldrin, are plotted on this graph.
Climax hits around the 4-minute mark. Too bad it doesn't get to the one small step for man part.  Dynamic face substitution Jan 04, 2012 08:33 am • Permalink Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro play around with a face tracker and color interpolation to replace their own faces, in real-time, with celebrities such as that of Brad Pitt and Paris Hilton. Awesome. And creepy. See Castro's video of him doing the same thing, but with a different blending algorithm. His looks more like a maleable mask rather than a face substitution. Grab the code on GitHub. [Video Link via Waxy]  | | More to read:
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