…This amazing Mount St. Helens Lidar image.
Oh, people! Those flows! If you look closely (which is far easier if you download the pdf file), you’ll notice the drastic difference in texture between the young, pyroclastics-rich north and the older south side with its stubby flows. Oh so delicious!
I never would’ve appreciated Lidar before moving to the Pacific Northwest. Up here, having a technology that can look past trees is priceless. This is so neato! And yes, I literally drooled when I saw the full file available for download.
What are you geeking out on?
Lovely, although I think I’d rather see it without the false color.
Which reminds me, what sort of image is the blog background again?
What am I geeking out on?
Right now, DNA profiles and the stapler. (It’s Results Day at the lab!) It’s a mix of the usual crap and surprising matches.
But generally, I’m still thrilled with myself for finding my first plant fossil a couple of weeks ago. No idea what it is, but it’s definitely a plant (and not a shell and not a coral). Exciting!
WWII fighter aircraft design. I wore my Hawaiian shirt with such airplanes on it, today, and watched vids about the P-38 and the F4U Corsair. Both were incredibly well designed, and pretty with it.
I was also thinking about how much fashion and fad and belief get involved, even with something as allegedly functional as an airplane. But dang, when a good designer makes clever compromises, the human aspect is amazing.
Excellent geekery! I remember my dad building a Corsair model. Dang, that thing was delicious. I should make him fly it for me next time I visit.
Yay, DNA! Double-yay, fossils! If you want to send a pic or few, we can try doing a mystery fossil thingy.
I’m torn on the false color. I wish they’d have both.
The background image is Lidar of the Seattle area. I think I chose the Bothell bits, but I can’t remember. I’ve got so much Lidar of Seattle you don’t even know. They don’t use false color, just gray. I changed it to light purple cuz mah blawg.