Earth Matters

One of my (many) pet peeves in data visualization is vertical exaggeration. For example, here’s a 3D rendered view (from the south looking north) of Mount Etna: Compared to the real thing, photographed from the International Space Station (from the north looking south): The 3D view is scaled so the volcano appears much higher than […]

In the process of writing captions I can run into some amazing stuff, like this photo of incandescent rocks arcing through the sky during the collapse of a lava bench near Kilauea.