Mastodawn

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Jan 13, 2025

Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/ <-- shared technical article
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines

Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries

The world map you know is totally wrong. Check out this clever graphic, which helps put into perspective the true size of countries.

Visual Capitalist

Bose-Einstein-Kondensat Jun 6, 2024

#bIUreactor: A modular #OpenSource 3D tissue #research platform:

-perfusible #3Dtissues
-#tissue culture #bioreactor chamber
-cyclic compression module
-#PET-compatible

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-024-03481-5
#DIYbio #lab #instruments #biofabrication #bioprinting #3Dprinting #spheroid #Arduino #science

The ‘bIUreactor’: An Open-Source 3D Tissue Research Platform - Annals of Biomedical Engineering

We developed the open-source bIUreactor research platform for studying 3D structured tissues. The versatile and modular platform allows a researcher to generate 3D tissues, culture them with oxygenated perfusion, and provide cyclic loading, all in their own lab (in laboratorium) for an all in cost of $8,000 including 3D printer, printing resin, and electronics. We achieved this by applying a design philosophy that leverages 3D printing, open-source software and hardware, and practical techniques to produce the following: 1. perfusible 3D tissues, 2. a bioreactor chamber for tissue culture, 3. a module for applying cyclic compression, 4. a peristaltic pump for providing oxygenated perfusion to 3D tissues, 5. motor control units, and 6. open-source code for running the control units. By making it widely available for researchers to investigate 3D tissue models and easy for them to use, we intend for the bIUreactor to democratize 3D tissue research, therefore increasing the pace and scale of biomedical research discoveries using 3D tissue models.

SpringerLink

aNdy Jan 12, 2024

My #commodoreamiga game #Spheroid is complete and released, so work resumes on my #c64 game CHILL3R!

I'm designing Stage 4, the city at night, in the rain with thunder and lightning! The numbers show where the rain will fall! There will be splashes on the pavements and side-walks too!

#commodore64 #8bit #retrogames #indiegamedev #retrogaming #commodore #pixelart #retro #indiedev #indiedev @EC64