Digging in the crates here.

I love A Walk On Deep Snow, choice tune, check it out.

Good fun. Varied forks, traps and endgame scenarios.

From Mr Lovenstein.

Read them all and show support here:

https://m.tapas.io/series/MrLovenstein/info

(Protip, click below each of the recent comics, to show the secret 5th panel)

A fun path-maker game.

A fun path maker game.

I found this about a month ago, for viewing equirectangular projection images.

Wikimedia has a collection of images that can be used with this viewer.

Here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Equirectangular_projection

And here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:360%C2%B0_panoramas_with_equirectangular_projection

Uses the mobile phones sensors to move the image around.

Went to watch the sun go down on this river bend.

This fine bird circled in, and perched, watching the water below for about 7 minutes.

Straight up fun.

Blurb:

Panoramicon is an immersive viewer for spherical panorama images (full 360×180° images in equirectangular projection).

Detail:

As per the README from github.

Example Images

If you're looking for example panoramic images to use with the app, Wikimedia Commons has a large collection of freely licensed spherical panoramas available under Creative Commons licenses. You can browse and download images from:

Spherical panoramas category - A wide collection of panoramas from various contributors

Spherical panoramics by Domob - Panoramas contributed by the app developer

Simply download any equirectangular panorama image and open it with Panoramicon to explore it in full 360° view.

NOTE: Zoom is currently restricted in Panoramicon, so downloading the full-sized images is wasteful. On Wikimedia, the second size down image, should give enough detail. 2560x1280 pixel.

CONTROLS :

Pinch = zoom, swipe = pan, gyro = mlook.

Saw this for the first time today.

The theme is about the illuminating nature of science.

An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar-system.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Philosopher_Lecturing_on_the_Orrery

Found this data trove today.

Recommend to check one dataset, and it's associated paper. Maybe post anything interesting that you find.

Not recommended to go full rabbit-hole and read a days worth of papers. (or go for it)

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From a paper in the Science section,

Monitoring of Humpback Whales in the Pender Bay, Kimberley, 2009 to 2012

"it was observed that the number of whale sightings decreased around midday as well as a shift in the whales’ behaviours from more visible displays like blowing to less visible activities such as surface travelling."

Hi All,

I find Kiwix to be the most streamlined way to download and organise large amounts of offline content.

Feel free to post and share the best offline-content that you have found on Kiwix.

I'd like to share some of my favourite .zim file finds.

Arqade - videogames

Blender Studio films - libre animated shorts

Board and Card games - as per title

Bookdash - Kids picture books , under free Creative Commons licence

Chess

Health

Lifehacks

Open Data

PhET Interactive Simulations - Physics interactive simulations(HTML5), just excellent

Vikidia - Children's encyclopedia

So, I added this comment to an Asklemmy post about 'What is your most memorable video game experience? '

I thought it would be of some interest here too.

From 35yrs ago:

https://lemmy.world/comment/20159805

Just breathtaking. A huge monolith in the desert centre of Australia, with deep spiritual significance for Australian Aboriginal people.

For size, in the shaded part, the white spec is someones shirt.

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Notes (Added the OC tag - Photo date: 4.10.25).

(If you are seeing a gradation of blue bands in the sky, caused by some compression artifact, download the picture and then view. The bands should be gone.)

In case you missed it.

Straight up fun mix.

Several clones and original space-games, all available under an open licence.

I can recommend the 2D side-scroller Project:Starfighter, which is a fun and challenging play-through.