Neave.com

Neave Planetarium now includes planets, sun and moon!

2008-08-05T19:00:00+00:00

Hello stargazers. I've updated my Flash-based planetarium so now you can find the planets, the sun and the moon, and create a permanent link to any view from any time at any point on Earth. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Well it is. It is very exciting. The accuracy is pretty good too, so you can check out last week's solar eclipse or see the one from 1999 or even go to Sydney, Australia and preview the upcoming transit of Venus in 2012, or just find out when the next full moon will be.

Space pie in your face!
Paul.

Flash Earth updates

2008-07-02T11:00:00+00:00

My little Flash-based mapping website Flash Earth has had a few alterations after some people commented that the menus were obstructing the view of the map. So now they're resting back where they once were in the far corners of the screen. The same is also true for my space star map chart application Neave Planetarium. I must admit the menus look better there. I don't know what I was thinking of before. Kittens in string or evil clowns or something probably.

And more good news, NASA's daily satellite imagery is now being updated again thanks to Lucian Plesea from OnEarth. It's amazing that this one man is able to provide this imagery at all, given the budget cuts and insufficient resources at NASA.

That's it for now. Laters potaters,
Paul.

A new Neave.com

2008-06-11T10:00:00+00:00

Hello. This is just a quick note to tell you about a new version of my website called Neave.com, which by a bizarre coincidence is also its web address.

Clickety-click here: www.neave.com

Here's a summary of the new website in all its bullet-pointed glory. I know you haven't got all day, so I'll make it snappy:

Flash Earth and Neave Planetarium are now more integrated so you can easily flip between perusing the planet the gazing at the stars from any location on Earth. Both interfaces have had a spring clean with new collapsible menus, and Neave Planetarium now features constellations and more star information. Sadly, Google have asked for their imagery to be removed from Flash Earth, but the other satellite imagery remains.
Neave Games has also joined the redesign party with bug fixes and new features. You can now add the games to your website using the code provided at the bottom of each game page.
Neave.tv is now called Neave Television and hosts a collection of weird videos that lack any context and will hopefully make your mind drop out of your head. If you do go insane, please let me know as I'd love to hear your dribbling, incoherent ramblings.
Neave Imagination and Neave Strobe are still there but now have added clever.

And now onto the new stuff with seven more pieces of experimental Flashing:

Neave Webcam. Watch yourself pulling silly faces, upside-down, on fire, in a snowstorm, in a fishbowl, with a big nose and small eyes, in an x-ray and more, then record a short video onto my free-for-all webcam video wall.
Neave Anaglyph. Don a pair of red-blue 3D spectacles and draw big wiggly lines in the space in front of your face. I task you not to draw oversized rude body parts.
Neave Dandelion. Blow real air with your real lungs at my 3D digital dandelion seeds using the microphone on your computer.
Neave Light and Neave Bounce. Two experiments that were born out of the old Neave Audio/Visual section, both of which allow you to play music or shout at your computer and make your screen go all pretty.
Neave Fractal. Zoom into a world of psychedelic mathematical patterns in my full-screen Mandelbrot set explorer.
Neave Vote. Cast a series of votes of pointless insignificance and let your indifference be heard.

All the Flash ActionScript source code for these experiments can be downloaded and used and abused freely without permission from the Code of the Google.

Once again, here's that website I was talking about: www.neave.com
Go there. Go there now. I hope you like.

Baked beans on sticks,
Paul.