Theo Jaffee made a Weather Atlas that shows where in the world has the right weather for you. Set the sliders to your perfect day and the international heat map will shift to show which areas get it the most times a year. — Read the rest
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The three-body problem remains unsolved—we can't generally predict the motion of three bodies for all starting conditions using regular maths—but there are many solutions showing periodic orbits given specific conditions. Three Body Orbits is a beautiful "atlas" animating 3,942 of them. — Read the rest
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The FBI National Stolen Art File lists more than 8,000 paintings, sculptures and other "culturally-significant property" that has found its way out of galleries, museums and private collections and into swag bags. The sprawling online gallery provides a description, dimensions, artist, and, if available, a photograph. — Read the rest
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Camera Index represents camera expert Pierro Pozella's quest to document every film camera ever made. He aims to turn it into the ultimate encyclopedia of the form, complete with specifications, manuals and, of course, photographs of the gadgets. [via Kosmofoto]
"Our aim is to create one of the most comprehensive film camera archives available, while keeping it freely accessible to photographers, collectors, researchers and anyone interested in analogue photography.
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Book of Shapes [via] is a collection of minimalist generative SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski. Beautiful and elaborate, yet each defined by a few lines of code, they can be customized for use on the web or in print. — Read the rest
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Page Rage and Destroy Any Website let you ruin any website with a little pixel-art character controlled in classic WASD fashion. The styling is retro and the weapons are futuristic and extremely destructive.
"Destroying pages is all the rage today," wrote Page Rage creator Alex Reardon to Destroy Any Website creator Hugo Duprez after the similar toys popped up within a few days of one another. — Read the rest
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You've surely seen interactive maps showing the effects of the sea level rising, but Sliding Shores makes a game of it: you get a beautifully-rendered globe and a slider to raise or lower the oceans. There's a load of presets, from "oceans drained" to "drown Everest," a feat not even Waterworld managed. — Read the rest
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