Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
blprnt.com is a home online for digital artist and designer Jer Thorp. It is an exhibiition of generative projects & experiments with evolution as well as a space for discussion and learning. Jer Thorp is an artist and educator working out of Vancouver, Canada. His work has been exhibited internationally and he is a regular speaker at conferences and events around the world.
A recent assertion from a team at Argonne National Laboratory proposed a simple yet still “fringe” answer to an increasingly pressing question for scientists in data-intensive fields. Before we get there, however, it might go without saying that all scientific disciplines are data-intensive now, especially following the explosion in sensors and data collection gear sparked by the era of limitless mobility...
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