have cut down through the topsoil into the lighter material underneath resulting in a scene resembling a 3D X-ray image of the brain.
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Showing posts with label Gaia's Brain. Show all posts
Monday
More Brains
When it rains it pours. I spent a great deal of time searching for landscape that would help illustrate the idea of Gaia's Brain without any success. But then I finally found the rock outcroppings in the Animas Valley that help illustrate the idea. Then yesterday mornings flight to Playas Valley produced another location which also does the same thing. Instead of rock this brain like feature covers an area with a dark thin layer of topsoil over much lighter subsoil. The solution rills
have cut down through the topsoil into the lighter material underneath resulting in a scene resembling a 3D X-ray image of the brain.
Click on photograph to enlarge, opens in a new window.
have cut down through the topsoil into the lighter material underneath resulting in a scene resembling a 3D X-ray image of the brain.
Click on photograph to enlarge, opens in a new window.
Gaia's Brain: Low Level Aerial Photosynth
Just finished a 76 image photosynth of Gaia's Brain (see preceding post). It took 2 flights to get the photographs and Microsoft's Photosynth to make sense of them. On the second flight 2 Border Patrol trucks were waiting for me. I dropped low and grabbed this photograph, waved, and start gathering photographs for this photosynth. There's me flying in circles photographing rocks and the Border Patrol watching. Kinda like watching grass grow, it could not have been very exciting. But I do like having the backup.
Here is the final product, there are at least 2 halos I've found indicating that I managed fairly good coverage of Gaia's Brain. You may also view Gaia's Brain on BAlvarius' page at the photosynth site where a larger version is available. While the original "Gaia's Brain" black and white tilt shift photographs may not appear to be aerial photographs the photosynth should put to rest any doubt (and I have witnesses).
A simple multi-image panorama may be seen here.
Here is the final product, there are at least 2 halos I've found indicating that I managed fairly good coverage of Gaia's Brain. You may also view Gaia's Brain on BAlvarius' page at the photosynth site where a larger version is available. While the original "Gaia's Brain" black and white tilt shift photographs may not appear to be aerial photographs the photosynth should put to rest any doubt (and I have witnesses).
A simple multi-image panorama may be seen here.
Saturday
Gaia's Brain
The idea for an image of Gaia's Brain has been floating around for awhile and several flights were made trying to capture an image that would serve as its basis, but none of the proposed sites for the photograph produced anything publishable. After much work I got the aircraft in the right place, at right time of day, at the right altitude, and right angle to bring the idea to life. Taken from an altitude of between 50' and 100', the photograph is of exposed bedrock that is highly fractured, weathered, and eroded. The eroded rounded bedrock has the appearance of the convolutions found on the surface of the brain and by processing the image with tilt shift software and presenting it in black and white this effect is highlighted.
By presenting an image suggesting a physical brain and implying that it can be localized (to the bootheel of New Mexico), the photograph reiterates some of the early ideas about he anthropomorphic nature of the Gaia hypothesis that were very controversial. Primarily, that planetary homeostasis and the feedback loops that maintain it requires an underlying intelligence to create and maintain the system. Evidence suggests otherwise.
Click on photograph to enlarge and open in a new window, but the image looks best when Viewed On Black
View on Black
By presenting an image suggesting a physical brain and implying that it can be localized (to the bootheel of New Mexico), the photograph reiterates some of the early ideas about he anthropomorphic nature of the Gaia hypothesis that were very controversial. Primarily, that planetary homeostasis and the feedback loops that maintain it requires an underlying intelligence to create and maintain the system. Evidence suggests otherwise.
Click on photograph to enlarge and open in a new window, but the image looks best when Viewed On Black
View on Black
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