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Frédéric Beigbeder : Vous ne croyez pas que ça l'emmerderait Rimbaud, d'être dans la même typo que Katherine Pancol?

François Bon : On est complètement d'accord sur le fait que le livre numérique n'est qu'une projection transitoire et bâtarde. L'enjeu, c'est le Web.

Si l'enjeu c'est le Web... mais arrêtons de parler du livre alors !

This projection method transfers a 3-dimentional sphere into a 2-dimensional rectangle while maintaining areas proportions. Using this method, the “AuthaGraph world map” succeeds in transferring an image of the spherical Earth to a flat surface while evenly distributing distortion. An architect, Hajime Narukawa and his collaborators invented it in 1999.

simple tool for “remixing” a public domain world map available via Wikimedia (a Robinson projection in vector graphic format that shows all U.N. member states). After this map was chosen for use in a university web project, we had a need to refactor it in various ways. This script automates most of the operations that we require.

have a very simple set of basic maps, with low-to-medium level of detail, all with the same projection, and to provide a Javascript utility that converts back and forth between long/lat and the coordinate space of the image. There would be one world map, and a map for each country, and a map for each major region within each country (in the US, this would be states).

The projection used for this world map, also known as the "Dymaxion Map," was created by Buckminster Fuller, distinguished mathematician, inventor and 20th century visionary. The map began as a sketch,

Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.

Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.

In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".

Times are generated by running shell commands like

env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"

every 20 seconds

The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.

FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)

From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.

GeographicLib is a small set of C classes for performing conversions between geographic, UTM, UPS, MGRS, geocentric, and local cartesian coordinates and for solving geodesic problems. The emphasis is on returning accurate results with errors close to round-off (about 5–15 nm). In addition, various properties of the Transverse Mercator Projection are described and an accurate algorithm for Geodesics on the Ellipsoid is given.

Tutorials to help you understand the various projection and coordinate systems. Also find conversion tools to convert datasets from one system to another.

This is an experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques.