The Space Toast Pages

Matthew Rasmussen's journal of journals on various topics of interest, published here, there or somewhere since 1999.

Things That Just Seem Kind of Sleazy Now

• Facebook flirting
• Sites that spell out a word by including the domain suffix (e.g. http://fluf.fr)
• Neo-burlesque
• Car murals
• Anyone Oprah approves of
• The whole "my ad looks like it was shot for YouTube" thing
• The Reagan Presidency
• Weezer
• Every news channel but The Weather Channel

New Population Map Images

Work on the Population Map continues. Below are some test renders from last night. Click for high-resolution images.

The Animation:Master project file is 5.5MB in size, culled from about 7.5MB of data. Some of the random colors chosen by the script make neighboring states hard to distinguish, which will be corrected in jEdit with find/changes. The enormous Yukon/Koyukuk Census Area in Alaska, with an average of one person every 22.5 square miles, is so close to the ground plane that it's causing the software to glitch. The fill lighting is perhaps a bit too strong while facing west, and the key a bit dingy overall.

Griping aside, this project is coming along well in my opinion.

Moleskin Notes

These were my original scribbles for the population map project. I try to work as much out on paper as I can before moving to the computer.

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