#learning maps

[calypsorbit]

redraw of THE Sanji ever

[stardella]

More doodles of my fanbaby Astra and her plethora of besties/dads/future son

[specialmaps]

Map adjacent - analysis of different cities' street orientation as compared to the cardinal directions. Fascinating. I would love to see them arrayed on a globe or at least in latitude order.

This post is adapted from this research paper that you can read/cite for more info. It analyzes and visualizes 100 cities around the world.

This one is just for US cities.

[shadowsegregious]

not. the greatest cook (still comic under cut <3)

[dreamyblanket]

Hello it's my first time asking I don't speak English frequently so excuse me if i made a mistake

can you draw caramel arrow cookie teaching reader how to make a campfire and stargazing

I really love how you draw her

Thank you for the kind words! //^^//

[nebuladreamz]

IT'S FINALLY FUCKING OUT AND I CAN FINALLY POST THIS!!!! (Go watch it NOW)

Thank you so much to @ohno-the-sun for hosting the map, this was the most fun first experience I've had with being a part of one :D

[exhausted-archivist]

Interactive Map for Dragon Age: The Veilguard

If you're trying to find all the chests, notes, codices, loot, and even some of the easter eggs, a really helpful and amazing tool would be this interactive map! You can even track your progress.

[ootron]

that new perpetua video game looks great! veile is such a cool character :)

(anyway i have been really enjoying perpetua so far and it inspired me to go basically learn most of blender from scratch to model some characters, starting with veile!! all hand painted modeled etc.)

some more shots:

[saturnstrays]

Forsaken reminded me she exists </3 I am a big fan of the version of her I made up in my head.

[iamthepulta]

"Geology is 90% vocabulary" feels like such a poor description of such a large, important topic, but it feels like it would solve so much if people just... had the words to describe the world.

It's so unfair to everyone that the majority of the population's understanding of the world stops at "tectonic plates", "ring of fire", and "rock cycle". It's so unfair.

Everyone deserves to go on a hike, and when the rock changes colors, wonder "what is that?" and be able to answer the question themselves. Everyone deserves to be able to fulfill their curiosity and it is such a disservice that they cannot.

[specialmaps]

[reasonsforhope]

"The world's coral reefs are close to 25 percent larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, we found an extra 64,000 square kilometers (24,700 square miles) of coral reefs – an area the size of Ireland.

That brings the total size of the planet's shallow reefs (meaning 0-20 meters deep) to 348,000 square kilometers – the size of Germany. This figure represents whole coral reef ecosystems, ranging from sandy-bottomed lagoons with a little coral, to coral rubble flats, to living walls of coral.

Within this 348,000 km² of coral is 80,000 km² where there's a hard bottom – rocks rather than sand. These areas are likely to be home to significant amounts of coral – the places snorkelers and scuba divers most like to visit.

You might wonder why we're finding this out now. Didn't we already know where the world's reefs are?

Previously, we've had to pull data from many different sources, which made it harder to pin down the extent of coral reefs with certainty. But now we have high resolution satellite data covering the entire world – and are able to see reefs as deep as 30 meters down.

Pictured: Geomorphic mapping (left) compared to new reef extent (red shading, right image) in the northern Great Barrier Reef.

[AKA: All the stuff in red on that map is coral reef we did not realize existed!! Coral reefs cover so much more territory than we thought! And that's just one example. (From northern Queensland)]

We coupled this with direct observations and records of coral reefs from over 400 individuals and organizations in countries with coral reefs from all regions, such as the Maldives, Cuba, and Australia.

To produce the maps, we used machine learning techniques to chew through 100 trillion pixels from the Sentinel-2 and Planet Dove CubeSat satellites to make accurate predictions about where coral is – and is not. The team worked with almost 500 researchers and collaborators to make the maps.

The result: the world's first comprehensive map of coral reefs extent, and their composition, produced through the Allen Coral Atlas. [You can see the interactive maps yourself at the link!]

The maps are already proving their worth. Reef management agencies around the world are using them to plan and assess conservation work and threats to reefs."

-via ScienceDirect, February 15, 2024

[hatredmadeofgold]

I cannot stop drawing Raiden with iridescent hair and I am not sorry

Birthday gift for my lovely girlfriend @e6as95 💕

[shroomerr]

Oh, help me God, this hellboy got me coming back for more

reblogs super appreciated !!! close-ups under the cut !

[manglechanbluh]

Sawmill Rain My Beloved

[luxfuxxvii]

okay, like ... technically im supposed to start writing today. but...... im so sleepy. and also im supposed to be getting books today. and clear sticky notes for annotation purposes.