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Month: May 2021

Thank you to Jonathan at Bangor University for Reference Image

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 30, 2021

The Grid:  https://csee.bangor.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/regular-grid-random-colours.png Jonanthan, Bangor University: https://csee.bangor.ac.uk/cy/project-rainbow/create-a-coloured-grid-in-processing/ Jonathan, Thank you. I was working on a simple camera calibration and needed a good target. Your random colored grid made a great clear image. Correcting the camera colors, positions and intensities is much easier with a quantitative reference. The only suggestion I have is to also have the Javascript
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Comment on Facebook Allsky Camera group site

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 28, 2021

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172438633343696 Do you know of even one allsky camera on the Internet that shares live lossless images? And archives lossless images for stacking, research, correlations? The usual photos of stars and planets on the Internet are in jpg, or compressed video, so the pixels are not real pixels. The location and properties of the camera
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Comment on Video by: Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics

Richard K Collins Uncategorized May 28, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ZukOEmnBE Please provide links to your site and your work: Geometrical calibration of an all-sky imager: from spherical to cartesian and cylindrical coordinates If you are sharing the method, please share in JavaScript or universally accessible form (right now, on the Internet, that is only Javascript). Most people who are interested in this particular lens
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Comment to Astronomical League

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 28, 2021

I had to try several times to get the LONG captcha code right.  My eyes are really tired and it makes no sense.  Finally realized they were using case sensitive.  It failed because it was more than 1024 characters. Did they tell me there was a limit?  No.  Did they warn me that I went
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All sky live cameras for teaching, research and learning to collaborate globally

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 28, 2021

Luis, Attilla —  Hi Dodie, Gary, I appreciate you looking into this.  I got a separate reply from Attilla Danko offering to help with monitoring and reporting on all sky visibility.  Lenses that see the whole sky will have visible areas on parts of the sky.  I have found live cameras where a few stars
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ClearDarkSky, All Sky Camera Standards and Goals, Education, Research, Weather and Climate

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Experimenting, Internet Best Practices, Radiation Channels, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 27, 2021

Luis, This year I joined the Houston Astronomical Society, the Astronomical League and now Texas Astronomical Society. I am a retired mathematical statistician, but I work full time still as Director of the Internet Foundation.  If you want me to bore you to tears about global Internet communities, I am happy to oblige. I have
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Gravity Research Foundation Campaign, Gravitational Engineering, Simulating Gravity

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Gravitational Engineering, Internet efficiency, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 27, 2021

Samir, Glad you noticed it.  Most of my messages never get answered or noticed.  I guess they mostly get treated as spam.  I try to not let it bother me. Your paper is online now.  I guess I was in a hurry to read it.  It has a really ugly URL.  It really needs to
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Sample Internet Foundation Tasks and Projects

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Covid, Experimenting, Internet Covid Project, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Skinning the Internet May 26, 2021

Sample Instructions: “server boxes” project Research “old computers with barebones boot and run my own server” Buy old or new mid tower that can hold 6 disks, fast SATA, NVME SSD for memory mapping to handle big transfers at maximum speed.  And enough processors to run batch jobs like compile chromium process google ngrams gather
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Comment on: Trabecular bone organoids, synthesizing earth-like gravity equivalents

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Experimenting, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 25, 2021

Trabecular bone organoids – A micron scale prototype designed to study the effects of microgravity and degeneration – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-021-00146-8 Alexandra, I received this note today about your work.  I have been tracking most all the levitation technologies on the Internet for some time. Then I realized that you probably know all this already, except maybe acoustic
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Comment on: What is Clay by Miss Territo

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Experimenting, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 25, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgzW_qRRRLs Taking clay from natural soils requires mixing with water, settling, separation. Or crushing and dry separation, to get the fine enough particles that have the properties you want or need. And usually a degree of experimentation and learning to find the right sizes and properties that give different ultimate results. And some luck and
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