Style.org
style.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Style.org is Corum's site of data visualizations and design essays, including the unladen swallow airspeed estimate and Strouhal number flight pages.
What HN saysCommenters call everything on the site amazing and point to the unladen swallow and Strouhal flight pages as an especially good pair.
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tptacek · 2014-02-09
Everything else at style.org is equally amazing. Corum was, IIRC, a student of Tufte's.
Here's an especially great pair:
http://style.org/unladenswallow/
http://style.org/strouhalflight/
ableal · 2014-02-09
Yes, it also struck me that way.
As an offtopic aside, the Mars day/year slide ( http://style.org/visualized/images/weightofrain_34.jpg ) made me think we should really build a "second home" (or vacation house, or mountain cabin).
Perhaps mountain cabin is the appropriate metaphor. It's another 70 million km up the Sun's gravity well. If we take solar energy supply as a feasibility criterion, it's 43% of what we get on Earth. (Data courtesy of
http://idahoptv.org/ntti/nttilessons/lessons2000/lau1.html )
Tangurena · 2009-05-17
This has some calculations showing the speed of a swallow:
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
The speed calculations are based on the Strouhal number
http://www.style.org/strouhalflight/
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/theories/
antoinevg · 2015-04-01