MH17 Crash Reconstruction

Video about the Dutch Safety Board’s investigation into the causes of the crash of flight MH17 on 17 July 2014 in the eastern part of Ukraine and the Board’s investigation into flying over conflict zones. Quite neat to see that the fuselage was reconstructed with the shards an pieces found. Do note that this analysis …

The Jefferson Grid

The aforementioned Sad Topographies reminded me of The Jefferson Grid, an Instagram account curating a list of areal photos depicting a grid with cells the size of one square mile each, spread throughout the United States. Looking from the window seat on a long plane flight, you might have noticed that large swaths of the …

Augmented Reality Coloring Book

In this paper, we present an augmented reality coloring book App in which children color characters in a printed coloring book and inspect their work using a mobile device. The drawing is detected and tracked, and the video stream is augmented with an animated 3-D version of the character that is textured according to the …

Clipboard.js

<!– Target –> <input id="foo" value="https://github.com/zenorocha/clipboard.js.git"> <!– Trigger –> <button class="btn" data-clipboard-target="#foo"> <img src="assets/clippy.svg" alt="Copy to clipboard"> </button> Copying text to the clipboard shouldn’t be hard. It shouldn’t require dozens of steps to configure or hundreds of KBs to load. But most of all, it shouldn’t depend on Flash or any bloated framework. That’s why …

iOS9 MobileSafari Viewport Problem

The viewport is set incorrectly when the viewport meta tag is specified with initial-scale=1 or width=device-width, and the page contains an element (e.g. div tag) that is wider than the desired viewport’s boundary. In the screenshot above (courtesy @RWD) you can see that the off-screen menu actually appears on-screen in iOS9. Apple changed how iOS9 …