The easiest way to solve this problem is to have small webcam outside that those persons inside can open to their desktop :)
Veiko http://veikoh.wordpress.com --- On Thu, 11/6/08, Dailey, David P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dailey, David P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [svg-developers] Another SVG challenge -- virtual weather station > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], svg-developers@yahoogroups.com > Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 4:32 PM > For maybe five years now, I have given my Interface Design > students a > wide variety of possible final projects to choose from [1]. > There are a > few several on which nobody has made much progress over the > years. Today > someone showed me a demo of a new beta desktop environment > (called > BumpTop [2]) would work. It reminds me of some of what > I've been talking > about in terms of "physics in layout" and the > <superpath> idea, and > presents some very intriguing concepts for interface. > Anyhow, they have > a little widget thingy that starts to look a bit like the > virtual > weather station I've been asking my students to do. > Given that the idea > is starting to reinvent itself outside of my own little > world, I figure > it's time to try to challenge some folks other than my > students (if for > no other reason than to save someone the agony of > accidentally trying to > patent something for which prior art already exists). > > > > So here's the challenge: > > > > Some people work in offices that have no windows. Let's > build one for > them. > > > > Make an SVG page that determines the visitor's > geographic location > (based on IP address, or direct query through a form). > Next > artificially generate an animated depiction of what the > weather outside > would look like based on current weather data (e.g. > precipitation, wind > velocity and temperature data) from the National Weather > Service), the > visitor's latitude and longitude, the time of day, and > the time of year. > How light or dark it is should vary as a function time of > year, > latitude, humidity and cloud cover. > > > > For example, if it is currently raining heavily and the > wind is blowing > very hard, and it is noon in October in Nome, and the > temperature is -3 > C, the sky will look rather different than similar > circumstances at > 17:00 in Miami at a warmer temperature. > > > > Overall weather categories (like rain, snow, sleet, hail, > sandstorms, > etc.) should be chosen from some relatively international > weather > vocabulary if such exists. > > > > To depict a windy day when there is no precipitation or > airborne sand, > one may wish to draw artificial trees and or clouds, to > show the effect > of the wind. > > > > The best entry will receive the largest smile so tell all > your friends > and neighbors. > > > > David > > > > [1] > http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/cs427/projects.htm > > [2] BumpTop demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ > > > [3] new features for SVG > http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/Spec.html > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and > click "edit my membership" > ----Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
