An Interative Game Installation that uses body movement and sound input to play.

Barry C Paul is well aware what the glowing spheroids over our area are about. As has been posted earlier, Barry is working on an alien communication device, and his backyard test of June 9th suggests he may be on the right track.

Reflections of a single object (a cube with a spherical hole) inside a spheroidal mirror twice as long as it is wide. In the beginning, the camera (which is invisible) and object are at opposite foci and the camera is looking at the object. Since all rays coming from one foci reflect to the other, there are no infinite reflections in this position. As the video progresses, the camera and object start to move toward each other, exchanging places. A variety of reflections moving at different speeds and in different directions is seen. As the camera and object approach the opposite foci, the reflections move more quickly, even though the camera and object are slowing down. When the camera and object reach the opposite foci, all reflections within the view disappear. The situation is the same as the beginning except the camera is looking away from the object; there are only reflections on the object's side of the spheroid. Rendered in POV-Ray. Hope you enjoy!

Animation for the new SPHEROID soundtrack, called "Introduction"

A Place to Return Hades server

Restitution demonstration of common spheroid.

An inspiration to Spiritualized

Spheroid Digital Music Project http://www.myspace.com/spheroidproject Copyright by Spheroid ! Promo

This is a composite of shots taken from the end of each of the first 133 generations of a Volumetric model of early stage cancer growth created as part of an MEng research project. Yellow spheres are filled volumes, red spheres are currently filling ones. Each completed sphere represents 400 tumor cells. After 133 generations slightly more than 12000 spheres have been generated to model over 3.8 million actual cells, each of which can shift cells throughout the population during mitosis. Generating the result of this model takes less than 5 minutes from program initialisation to generation of the final image you see in the sequence shown within a virtul environment (Open SG), however to render each image and combine to create this video took about 6 hours. The model is rotating slightly in order to give a better indication that this is a 3D model in a virtual environment.

Still Blue Dot. For Dr Carl Sagan. ...VV Cephei is a Supergiant of 1600~1900Radius with a Temperature 3300~3650kelvin. ...VY Canis Majoris is a Red Hypergiant 1800~2100Radius with a Temperature 2800~3000kelvin. ....So if a human could walk on the surface of Canis Majoris -- assuming a speed of 5 km/h (3 mph) for 8 hours a day -- the person would have to walk for 650,000 years to circle the star (compared with 2 years 11 months to complete the same task on the Earth, and 310 years 7 months on the Sun. ..The Earth's shape is very close to an oblate spheroid—a rounded shape with a bulge around the equator—although the precise shape (the geoid) varies from this by up to 100 meters. The average diameter of the reference spheroid is about 12,742 km. More approximately the distance is 40,000 km/π because the meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris, France. The rotation of the Earth creates the equatorial bulge so that the equatorial diameter is 43 km larger than the pole to pole diameter. The largest local deviations in the rocky surface of the Earth are Mount Everest (8,848 m above local sea level) and the Mariana Trench (10,911 m below local sea level). Hence compared to a perfect ellipsoid, the Earth has a tolerance of about one part in about 584, or 0.17%, which is less than the 0.22% tolerance allowed in billiard balls. Because of the bulge, the feature farthest from the center of the Earth is actually Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador. ..The Volume of Water is -125.000G cubic km - 137.000G cubic km, The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame, When the natural cycles of the seas grind to a halt normal pattens of weather will go into chaos, More extremely than that which we face today, Ocean temperature changes allowing algae to frive, Intern leading to a dramatic recomposition in the Atmosphere. ..Maybe we will find this is something similar to what happend on mars?, As for the two moons of mars that in itself is an enigma as is much of what we want to know?. ...Please No More Questions!..My Brain is Full?.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Astronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind -- until its discovery helped them pinpoint a second one that was much closer to home. In a paper published in a recent issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Ohio State University astronomers and their colleagues suggest that these star systems are the progenitors of a rare type of supernova. ** Oblate Spheroid **

0Rooster4Life0 presents a battle of two sports the NRL takes on The NFL which is the tougher , more skillful Sport ? You Decide. Rugby League:Rugby league football is a full-contact team sport played with a prolate spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. Rugby league is one of the two major codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union. The league code is most prominent in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and France, where the sport is played professionally. Rugby league is also popular in Papua New Guinea where it is considered the national sport. The game is played to a lesser extent in several other countries, such as Russia, the United States and Lebanon. Rugby league takes its name from what was initially a breakaway faction of the English Rugby Football Union (RFU) known as the Northern Rugby Football Union when established in 1895. Both unions played rugby football under similar rules at first, until similar breakaway factions occurred from RFU-affiliated rugby unions in Australia and New Zealand in 1907 and 1908, and formed associations known as rugby football leagues, introducing modified Northern Union rules to create a new form of rugby football. The Northern Union later changed its name to the Rugby Football League in 1922 and thus, over time the sport itself became known as "rugby league". Over the following decades, the rules of both forms of rugby were gradually changed, and now rugby league and rugby union are distinctly different sports. American Football: American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football,[1] is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball[2] into the opposing team's end zone. The ball can be advanced by carrying it (a running play) or by throwing it to a teammate (a passing play). Points can be scored in a variety of ways, including carrying the ball over the goal line, catching a pass from beyond the goal line, tackling an opposing ball carrier in his own end zone, or kicking the ball through the goal posts on the opposing side. The winner is the team with the most points when time expires at the end of the last play. American football is also played outside the United States. National leagues exist in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, Mexico, Israel, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and several Pacific Island nations. The National Football League, the largest professional American football league in the world, ran a developmental league in Europe from 19911992 and 19952006.

I perhaps wasn't explicit enough when I said "Feel free to go and press your nose up against the glass of her enclosure, but refrain from attacking or taunting." I do NOT advocate you guys harassing her over this, and apparently a few of you are. On the one hand I can't be too surprised considering I took pains to mention her name and link to her profile. On the other hand, the pwnage has already been dealt. If you think she is an imbecile - and I would have every sympathy with this perspective - post in the comments and snigger. Anything further moves into the murkier realm of Being A Twat. High Quality: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=23eQ9DVeMgE&fmt=18 Whilst wandering through Youtubes many caverns and slopes, I came across a strange creature - moist and pale as an ecclesiastical handshake, this thing, and huddled shivering on the ground. Much as a scientist might peer under a hitherto undisturbed stone, I approached the beast. I realised - too late! - that this poor, wretched thing was actually a Christian fundamentalist. Feeling disgust but also a sickened pity, I tried engaging it in conversation . . . but it eventually bloated itself into an oblate spheroid and rolled into the shadows. The conversation we had may be of some interest to you all. First, of course, I'd like to thank AndromedasWake for encouraging me to turn the transcript into a video, voicing my opponent himself and finally taking on the task of editing the video. The result is as sleek and polished as weve all come to expect and demand. Technically, of course, AW guest starred in my video - but we all know that I actually guest starred in his. He can be found here, nestled amongst high-quality astrophysics videos: http://uk.youtube.com/user/AndromedasWake And meljane1970, whom I must thank for a diverting couple of days, can be found here: http://uk.youtube.com/user/meljane1970 Feel free to go and press your nose up against the glass of her enclosure, but refrain from attacking or taunting. You can find the original conversation in the comments of this video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=glRAN_8CkvQ This was the first video by EdwardCurrent I'd seen, and you all probably knew him as being a bit special before I did. Check out that bastard. Clear skies and OH FUCK

Reviving a technology from 40 years ago in the iconic TV series "The Prisoner", I celebrated my successful rebuild of libode.so (with many thanks to the patience of Teravus, Dahlia, and Nebadon) under Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64. No longer do my regions suffer the scourge of spheres! Back in 1967, The Prisoner series featured a security system that was a white spherical, bouncy device that always captured the escapees. Here, I have simulated its Dutch cousin, as a slightly oblate orange spheroid rolling down from LBNL terrain near the Greek Theater. Of OpenSim technical interest: might be that this is 40 standalone regions running the ODE physics engine, with one physical prim and one logged in av. System: Intel Core2 Duo E6550 overclocked to 3.4 GHz / 4GB / Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64 ODE2 from opensim-libs changelog thru 20080328 mono 1.2.6 launched with OpenSim.exe or OpenSim.32BitLaunch.exe Either SQLite or MySQL 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1 SL client 1.19.1.4 x86_64 Linux or 1.19.1.4 Win32/XP There are bits of friction at the region crossings, but Rover manages to cross several regions (shown in the viewer as red property lines) on its way down the hill. It is so much more fun to have physics working!

Imagine a string tied snugly around the equator of the earth. (Assume a flat, spheroid earth. Also, for the sake of making the math easier, lets round the distance around the world at the equator to 25,000 miles, or about 132,000,000 feet.) The string is tight enough that you cant slip a sheet of paper under it, but not so tight it digs into the dirt. Now cut the string, and tie on an extra yard—three feet, or 36 inches—to that really, really long string. Assuming the string could be suspended in space around the earths equator, Could you slip a sheet of paper under it now? How about your hand? Could, say, four people strategically positioned around the world each slip a sheet of paper under the string? Thousands? A million? THE QUESTION: About how far away from the earth would the string be suspended?

Citizens of Fuzzytopia know full well that while the Great Unwashed call the 11th Month "November," we in the Grand Duchy of Fuzzytopia call it Fuzzypalooza: The Celebration of All Things FuzzyDave. On Nov. 15th (The Ides of Fuzzy), we celebrate FuzzyDave's birthday with a Great Feast and Snakki Treats. A Traditional Fuzzypalooza Snakki Treat is the Buckeye, a small spheroid of butter, powdered sugar and peanut butter dipped in chocolate. Consumption of more than 3 Buckeyes in an hour is guaranteed to induce a Sugar Coma. Here then is a nifty instructional video (complete with toe-tappin' soundtrack by HANSON!) on how to make this Beloved Fuzzytopian Delight....

Specifically this idiot has stated that he considers all of modern biology to be a quote "viewpoint that people have" unquote. That is like claiming to believe the heliocentric model of the solar system, whereby Earth orbits Sol and not the other way around, is a "viewpoint people have," or like saying it is only a "viewpoint people have" that Earth is an oblate spheroid instead of a flat round pan-cake.

LOCATION: Waldy's Wood Fired Pizza and Penne (6th Avenue and 27th Street) GUEST(S): Beth Cartier, Dan Fairall, Charlie Whitcroft ORDER: 3/4ths of a small Margherita PIZZA REPORT: Touchdown. Waldy's different sized football shaped (elliptical spheroid) pizzas are delicious from beginning to end-zone! The combination of fresh mozzarella and shredded mozzarella with the cherry tomatoes and basil [I cut myself] on my Margherita was, in a word, "unique". There was no shortage of delicious tomato sauce yet the stiff wood fired crust held strong. Well played, Waldy's, well played. ATMOSPHERE: Once you near this quaint pizza joint tucked in between a couple of banks in the shadow of the Empire State Building, the smell of the wood burning fire will bring you in. It's a pay-at-the-counter place to get high quality brick oven pizza. The dining area is small yet comfortable. There is a large flat panel television and interesting wall ornaments if you come alone and several tables if you come with guests. Behind the counter are several extremely helpful pizza cooks that welcome newcomers with patience and recommendations. Although the food is more expensive than a typical NY slice joint, it does not break the bank. A foot long, 6 inch wide ellipse (Waldy's small) is only $5. Try it out, if you're in the area. You know what? Try it out, even if you're not in the area. VERDICT: 4 out of 5 MISC: 1. There is a picture of a record album that looks like a butt. Charlie Whitcroft describes it as "artsy". 2. Dan Fairall explains how you should decide which size of pizza to order. 3. Beth Cartier likes cheese.

Ronchi test of a 16" mirror after 2 hours of polishing. First hour polishing by hand, second hour MOT /w Pneumatic Polisher. Ronchigram looks definitely better even though there is plenty of oblate spheroid + TDE + roughness present.

Have some free time and i play with Vegas video editor. ---------------------------------------- Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant, along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets, where Jovian is the adjectival form of Jupiter. The planet was known by astronomers of ancient times and was associated with the mythology and religious beliefs of many cultures. The Romans named the planet after the Roman god Jupiter.[10] When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of −2.8, making it the third brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. (However, at certain points in its orbit, Mars can briefly exceed Jupiter's brightness.) The planet Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a small proportion of helium; it may also have a rocky core of heavier elements under high pressure. Because of its rapid rotation, Jupiter's shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it possesses a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator). The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the 17th century. Surrounding the planet is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere. There are also at least 63 moons, including the four large moons called the Galilean moons that were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede, the largest of these moons, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury. Jupiter has been explored on several occasions by robotic spacecraft, most notably during the early Pioneer and Voyager flyby missions and later by the Galileo orbiter. The latest probe to visit Jupiter was the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft in late February 2007. The probe used the gravity from Jupiter to increase its speed and adjust its trajectory toward Pluto, thereby saving years of travel. Future targets for exploration include the possible ice-covered liquid ocean on the Jovian moon Europa. Jupiter is one of the four gas giants; that is, it is not primarily composed of solid matter. It is the largest planet in the Solar System, having a diameter of 142,984 km at its equator. Jupiter's density, 1.326 g/cm³, is the second highest of the gas giant planets, but lower than any of the four terrestrial planets.

Barry Paul (born Oakland CA, 1952) communicates with the celestial universe via an orbiting space ship and various distant telepathic entities. This began when his alien father from a previous life tracked Barry to this existence. Barry builds cosmic generators utilizing transmitted alien technology. Barry holds a Cosmicnight, which in true form is a no mass large prismatic pure energy spheroid which forms into anything.

workin workin workin I don't necessarily know if Ben was talking about the Earth - I just said that. It was pure metaphor ... but he did say it was a 'bad metaphor' ... does that imply that he was literally talking a ball perhaps the Earth? The earth is an oblate spheroid though ... I don't know if this qualifies as a ball. A ball is a sphere though ... Oh to hell with it. My bad for any mischaracterization .. Worldpeace, Ben http://www.john-keats.com/gedichte/the_fall_of_hyperion.htm

"Songstress of Faith, Spheroid of Fury" Not mine. Fanmade, and belongs to whomever did this. Gundam SEED property of Bandai and Sunrise. This is a fanmade parody and nothing more so please support the official release.

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Reviving a technology from 40 years ago in the iconic TV series "The Prisoner", I celebrated my successful repair of libode.so (with thanks to Teravus, Dahlia, and Nebadon) under Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64. No longer do my regions suffer the scourge of spheres! Back in 1967, The Prisoner series featured a security system that was a white spherical, bouncy device that always captured the escapees. Here, I have simulated its Dutch cousin, as a slightly oblate orange spheroid rolling down from LBNL terrain into the Greek Theater. Of OpenSim technical interest might be that this is 40 standalone regions running the ODE physics engine, with one physical prim and one logged in av. There are bits of friction at the region crossings, but Rover manages to cross several regions (shown in the viewer as red property lines) on its way down the hill. It is so much more fun to have physics working!