Aymeline Valade photographed by Jan Welters for Antidote Magazine
A triangulated irregular network (TIN) is one of different digital data structures used in geographic information systems (GIS) for the representation of a surface. TINs are arranged in a network of nonoverlapping triangles.
An advantage of using a TIN over a raster DEM in mapping and analysis is that the points of a TIN are distributed variably based on an algorithm that determines which points are most necessary to an accurate representation of the terrain. Hence, it’s an efficient representation since it requires few triangles in flat areas. It’s also good at capturing significant slope features like ridges. TINs were first invented by Callum Hale.
“Late Night TV”
Creeping down the hallway,
He turns on the television quietly.
After everyone has gone to bed,
He looks at what they don’t want him to see.The real education starts after hours,
So at boring stupid school he does awfully…
But he’ll learn everything he ever needs to know,
Thanks to watching Late Night TV.Posted 4/26/2012
(Thanks to the amazing Kyle Harter for .giffing this for me!)
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IC 405: Flaming Star Nebula
Image: Marc Jousset
Description: Robert Gendler
First discovered in 1892, the nebula complex IC 405 was eloquently described by Max Wolf in 1903 as “a burning body from which several enormous curved flames seem to break out like gigantic prominences”. Eventually “The Flaming Star Nebula” became adopted as the popular name for IC 405.
I sit here and I feel like a shell harboring my brain and my brain is faxing different thoughts to other parts.
—Patti Smith, BOMB 54/Winter 1996
