From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-12-08T16:10:19+09:00
Subject: Re: nighttime fun with ruby :wq

On Dec 7, 2006, at 22:04 , ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> i can't put much of what we work on online, but we just put this up  
> for a
> conference so i thought i'd share
>
>   http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/nrt/html/mosaic/ut_night/loop/
>
> ruby is driving about 50% of the code that makes these images.   
> each set (vis,
> tir) of data is approximately 10gb of input data - though these are  
> obviously
> thumbnails - and burns up something like 1hr of compute time.

That's one hell of a gif, 13.2M

> if anyone is interested we are working to make this data publically  
> availible
> via a mapserver wms/wcs interface sometime in the next few months.   
> mapserver
> is a http interface so i may whip up a ruby api so you can, for  
> instance, pull
> a cloud image over new-york state down easily.

This would be awesome.

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