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December 13, 2019 3:15 PM   Subscribe

 
Could be cool? Doesn't work so much on a phone.
posted by grumpybear69 at 4:46 PM on December 13, 2019


Jiggling Forever, indeed.
posted by codacorolla at 4:52 PM on December 13, 2019


Needs procedurally generated sound effects to go with it
posted by GuyZero at 5:16 PM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]


"wubba wubba wubba"
posted by moonmilk at 5:46 PM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]


This is really cool and works well for me. Thanks for posting it.
posted by Rumple at 7:01 PM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]


Now I will forever be dissatisfied with 2D maps.
posted by brambleboy at 8:34 PM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]




Yet another Chrome-only thingy? Which would be OK, but Chrome updated yesterday, promptly crashed, and now will not run, period, on this Windows box...
posted by maxwelton at 12:11 AM on December 14, 2019


Works fine in Firefox.
posted by ardgedee at 4:46 AM on December 14, 2019


This is amazing. Here's a link to 'large map' version with much more robust controls.

I just zoomed all of the way out, set the map to 'hyposometric colors', and wiggled the earth; it gave me a whole new appreciation for the topography of the ocean floor. What an awesome way to enhance depth perception. Thanks for sharing this.
posted by soy bean at 6:57 AM on December 14, 2019 [2 favorites]


Elastic Terrain's About page has the following reference:
Willett, W., Jenny, B., Isenberg, T. and Dragicevic, P. (2015).
Lightweight relief shearing for enhanced terrain perception on interactive maps.
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(CHI 2015), Apr 2015, Seoul, South Korea, 3563–3572

ABSTRACT

We explore interactive relief shearing, a set of non-intrusive, direct manipulation interactions that expose depth and shape information in terrain maps using ephemeral animations. Reading and interpreting topography and relief on terrain maps is an important aspect of map use, but extracting depth information from 2D maps is notoriously difficult.

Modern mapping soft-ware attempts to alleviate this limitation by presenting digitalterrain using 3D views. However, 3D views introduce occlusion, complicate distance estimations, and typically require more complex interactions.

In contrast, our approach reveals depth information via shearing animations on 2D maps, and can be paired with existing interactions such as pan and zoom.We examine explicit, integrated, and hybrid interactions for triggering relief shearing and present a version that uses device tilt to control depth effects. Our evaluation shows that these interactive techniques improve depth perception when compared to standard 2D and perspective views.
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Basically, isn't this 3D map effect using Wiggle stereoscopy (WP)?:
Wiggle stereoscopy is an example of stereoscopy in which left and right images of a stereogram are animated. This technique is also called wiggle 3-D or wobble 3-D, sometimes also Piku-Piku (Japanese for "twitching").[1]

The sense of depth from such images is due to parallax and to changes to the occlusion of background objects. In contrast to other stereo display techniques, the same image is presented to both eyes. Animation can be done in a web browser with an animated GIF image, Flash animation, or JavaScript program.
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posted by cenoxo at 5:28 PM on December 14, 2019 [1 favorite]


This is really fun, I am imagining a world where all terrain is as trampoline.
posted by GoblinHoney at 9:20 AM on December 16, 2019


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