http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Fatlities Posts tagged with 'Fatlities' at MetaFilter. Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:36:27 -0800 Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:36:27 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/43056/Iraq%2DWar%2DFatalities%2DThe%2DNext%2DIconic%2DWeb%2DAnimation <small>Iraq War Fatalities is a chart of US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in the War in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space. It is an ongoing project that is updated regularly, and will continue to go on as long as the war does. The animation runs at ten frames per second--one frame for each day--and a single black dot indicates the geographic location that a US fatality occurred. Each dot starts as a white flash and a larger red dot that fades to black over the span of 30 frames/days, and then slowly fades to grey over the span of the entire war. Accompanying the visual representation is a soft 'tic' sound for each fatality, the volume of which increases relative to the number of fatalities that occurred simultaneously that day. More deaths in a smaller area produces visually deeper reds and audibly more pronounced 'tics.'</small> <br><br> <a href="http://www.obleek.com/iraq/index.html" title="Can you imagine how it would look and sound if it included military and civilian Iraqi fatalities as well ?">Iraq War Fatalities</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;<small><small>(via <a href="http://www.bopnews.com/" title="The Blogging of the President">Bop News)</a></small></small> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.43056 Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:36:27 -0800 Animation Fatlities Flash Iraq War y2karl