#ernestshackleton — Public Fediverse posts

For the first time in a long while am reading a book of popular science that really engages; Ben Alderson-Day's fabulous study of felt presence.

I remember hearing Ben talk about the "third-man factor" at a conference and I was already then delighted to hear him relate the story of Shackleton, Worsley and Crean crossing the mountains of South Georgia with an unseen man among them. Here in the book version he tells the same tale – and many others – so well.

And I have new respect for my temporoparietal junction.

#psychology #cognition #perception #hallucination #presence #ErnestShackleton

https://benaldersonday.com/

‘Endurance’ Review: Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Voyage to the Icy Bottom of the Earth Comes to Life in a You-Are-There Documentary
#Variety #Reviews #Endurance #ErnestShackleton

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/endurance-review-the-journey-of-ernest-shackleton-1236199279/

The sitters on Portrait Artist of the Year generally sit still and quietly - at least according to the TV edit - but I love that Dan Snow has been shown talking about Ernest Shackleton to the artists and other attendees.

#PAOTY #DanSnow #ErnestShackleton

Shackleton cross makes 7,000-mile journey to Dundee, Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24vxzpn9do #Shackleton #ErnestShackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Dundee #Scotland #Discovery #RRSDiscovery #Exploration #History #SouthPole

Shackleton cross makes 7,000-mile journey to Dundee, Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24vxzpn9do #Shackleton #ErnestShackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Dundee #Scotland #Discovery #RRSDiscovery #Exploration #History #SouthPole

Shackleton cross makes 7,000-mile journey to Dundee, Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24vxzpn9do #Shackleton #ErnestShackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Dundee #Scotland #Discovery #RRSDiscovery #Exploration #History #SouthPole

Shackleton cross makes 7,000-mile journey to Dundee, Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24vxzpn9do #Shackleton #ErnestShackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Dundee #Scotland #Discovery #RRSDiscovery #Exploration #History #SouthPole

Shackleton cross makes 7,000-mile journey to Dundee, Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24vxzpn9do #Shackleton #ErnestShackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Dundee #Scotland #Discovery #RRSDiscovery #Exploration #History #SouthPole

Explorer Shackleton’s lost ship as never seen before https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6qz387qjgo #Shackleton #ErnestShackleton #Endurance #EnduranceShip #Antarctic #Antarctica #3D #ship #shipwreck #WeddellSea #visualization #visualisation #3Dscan #Exploration #Explorers #ice #sea

If you are not too busy this weekend I would advise taking time out to #watch this #documentary #film about Sir #ErnestShackleton and the crew of the #Endurance.

#Video #Documentary #Film #Movie #Antarctica #Exploration #C20th #20thCentury #History #ErnestShackleton
QT: https://qoto.org/@bibliolater/112101784327675388

"Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to deliver Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. When the expedition ship is crushed, Worsley’s seamanship and navigational skills saves them all." https://youtu.be/qvrEMhm3Z-g #Video #Documentary #Film #Movie #Antarctica #Exploration #C20th #20thCentury #History #Histodon #Histodons #ErnestShackleton #Endurance

Photo of the Day

“By endurance we conquer.”

The “Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914” was intended to be Ernest Shackleton’s third South Polar expedition and the one which would secure his place in history.

And it would begin on the HMS Endurance, a wooden three-masted ship named after his family’s motto.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-9cc?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#history #photography #ErnestShackleton #TransPolarExpedition

This page will host my experiments with Gaussian-splatting pipelines. I finally found some time to get round to setting up the environment – pretty straight-forward stuff – and a lot of emergent integrations that are worth exploring.

H.M.S. Endurance

My first test is based on the H.M.S. Endurance NeRF work I explored a few months ago. First impressions are that it is much less ‘instant’ – more processing time – but gives much more user-friendly interactive results. Framerates are high, floaters are largely eliminated – and will hopefully be much easier to remove. I’ll post some more examples below as I work out some pipelines – I have a few interesting experiments in mind.

4k #gaussiansplat test of Shackleton’s Endurance. This is rendered from NerfStudio and uprezzed via Topaz VideoAI to a 60fps loop. Needs a lot more work, obviously, but the results are extremely promising and indicate that one can undertake novel #archaeological observations on trained models based on #underwater #video #drone #submersible data. A key step would be to preprocess using e.g. cnn deconvolution or physics-based approaches like the see-thru algorithm (https://lnkd.in/gE_44fzE ). Public Source data: https://endurance22.org
One can think of all sorts of interesting applications for e.g. benthic trawl videos and volumetric reconstruction of sea-floor communities, archaeological surveys of submerged ancient cities, inspecting dams and lakes…

S.Y. Endurance Unreal Engine Cinematic

A #gaussiansplat #visualization #cinematic proof-of-concept in #unrealengine5 of the stern of Ernest Shackleton’s famous ship S.Y. Endurance. The wreck was discovered by Mensun Bound and the Endurance22 expedition – a remarkable achievement (read about it @ wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_(1912_ship). The original render is 2.39:1 Prores 422 at 3840 x 1608 . I’ve added 35mm grain in the vain hope that YouTube compression won’t entirely wreck it. I’m happy with it for a long afternoon’s work of what I think of as ‘YouTube Marine Archaeology’ – version 0.1. Lots more can be done, obviously. Note that this is entirely unrealistic – artistic license apparently allows tropical fish to exist over 3000m below the surface of the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. [irony] We can regard these as an invasive species [/irony]. It is deliberately slow, because it’s a visualization – it’s about looking, a sense of what it would be like to be there in person in the aphotic zone, in complete darkness, where sunlight never reaches. For those interested in technical details I’ll add some more soonish. Music by Glenn Rogers #marinearchaeology #archaeology #ernestshackleton #envisioningantarctica

Mawson’s Huts, Antarctica

An experiment in revisiting footage I shot whilst working as a conservation expeditioner at Mawson’s Huts, #Antarctica in 2009-10. NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting enable novel ways of interrogating databases of images and video in unprecedented detail, enabling new insights into heritage and remote sites. Digital heritage is as significant as physical heritage. Of course, there’s no reason this can’t now be rendered #stereoscopically, for #fulldome or #XR devices, especially with #generative fill trained on #loras.
#nerf #gaussiansplat #digitalheritage #archaeology #xr #omniverse

https://www.petermorse.com.au/2023/10/gaussian-splatting-experiments/

#archaeology #cinematic #envisioningantarctica #ernestshackleton #gaussianSplat #gaussiansplat #marinearchaeology #unrealengine5 #visualization

This page will host my experiments with Gaussian-splatting pipelines. I finally found some time to get round to setting up the environment – pretty straight-forward stuff – and a lot of emergent integrations that are worth exploring.

H.M.S. Endurance

My first test is based on the H.M.S. Endurance NeRF work I explored a few months ago. First impressions are that it is much less ‘instant’ – more processing time – but gives much more user-friendly interactive results. Framerates are high, floaters are largely eliminated – and will hopefully be much easier to remove. I’ll post some more examples below as I work out some pipelines – I have a few interesting experiments in mind.

https://youtu.be/WwqsNIzJJzc

4k #gaussiansplat test of Shackleton’s Endurance. This is rendered from NerfStudio and uprezzed via Topaz VideoAI to a 60fps loop. Needs a lot more work, obviously, but the results are extremely promising and indicate that one can undertake novel #archaeological observations on trained models based on #underwater #video #drone #submersible data. A key step would be to preprocess using e.g. cnn deconvolution or physics-based approaches like the see-thru algorithm (https://lnkd.in/gE_44fzE ). Public Source data: https://endurance22.org
One can think of all sorts of interesting applications for e.g. benthic trawl videos and volumetric reconstruction of sea-floor communities, archaeological surveys of submerged ancient cities, inspecting dams and lakes…

S.Y. Endurance Unreal Engine Cinematic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBf9OBygowI

A #gaussiansplat #visualization #cinematic proof-of-concept in #unrealengine5 of the stern of Ernest Shackleton’s famous ship S.Y. Endurance. The wreck was discovered by Mensun Bound and the Endurance22 expedition – a remarkable achievement (read about it @ wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_(1912_ship). The original render is 2.39:1 Prores 422 at 3840 x 1608 . I’ve added 35mm grain in the vain hope that YouTube compression won’t entirely wreck it. I’m happy with it for a long afternoon’s work of what I think of as ‘YouTube Marine Archaeology’ – version 0.1. Lots more can be done, obviously. Note that this is entirely unrealistic – artistic license apparently allows tropical fish to exist over 3000m below the surface of the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. [irony] We can regard these as an invasive species [/irony]. It is deliberately slow, because it’s a visualization – it’s about looking, a sense of what it would be like to be there in person in the aphotic zone, in complete darkness, where sunlight never reaches. For those interested in technical details I’ll add some more soonish. Music by Glenn Rogers #marinearchaeology #archaeology #ernestshackleton #envisioningantarctica

Mawson’s Huts, Antarctica

https://youtu.be/qpiBQXwFGnY?si=Opd9PzeeanKnqpcx

An experiment in revisiting footage I shot whilst working as a conservation expeditioner at Mawson’s Huts, #Antarctica in 2009-10. NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting enable novel ways of interrogating databases of images and video in unprecedented detail, enabling new insights into heritage and remote sites. Digital heritage is as significant as physical heritage. Of course, there’s no reason this can’t now be rendered #stereoscopically, for #fulldome or #XR devices, especially with #generative fill trained on #loras.
#nerf #gaussiansplat #digitalheritage #archaeology #xr #omniverse

https://www.petermorse.com.au/2023/10/envisioning-antarctica-gaussian-splatting-experiments/

#archaeology #cinematic #envisioningantarctica #ernestshackleton #gaussianSplat #gaussiansplat #marinearchaeology #unrealengine5 #visualization

@Marduk_James
🥥 So few contemporary people know of explorer #ErnestShackleton and his incredible story, Marduk, because it happened around the start of World War I and was overshadowed by that disaster. 🥥

Tonight’s supper reading, Mensun Bound’s “The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance”. I was lucky to get a signed copy from my local bookshop. I rarely read print now due to neuro disease, but this one’s layout and structure is me friendly.
#ErnestShackleton #Shackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Endurance #Exploration #Explorers #HistoricShips #Shipwreck #Shipwrecks #Books #Reading #NonFiction #History #Archaeology #Maritime #MaritimeArchaeology

Tonight’s supper reading, Mensun Bound’s “The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance”. I was lucky to get a signed copy from my local bookshop. I rarely read print now due to neuro disease, but this one’s layout and structure is me friendly.
#ErnestShackleton #Shackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Endurance #Exploration #Explorers #HistoricShips #Shipwreck #Shipwrecks #Books #Reading #NonFiction #History #Archaeology #Maritime #MaritimeArchaeology

Tonight’s supper reading, Mensun Bound’s “The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance”. I was lucky to get a signed copy from my local bookshop. I rarely read print now due to neuro disease, but this one’s layout and structure is me friendly.
#ErnestShackleton #Shackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Endurance #Exploration #Explorers #HistoricShips #Shipwreck #Shipwrecks #Books #Reading #NonFiction #History #Archaeology #Maritime #MaritimeArchaeology

Tonight’s supper reading, Mensun Bound’s “The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance”. I was lucky to get a signed copy from my local bookshop. I rarely read print now due to neuro disease, but this one’s layout and structure is me friendly.
#ErnestShackleton #Shackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Endurance #Exploration #Explorers #HistoricShips #Shipwreck #Shipwrecks #Books #Reading #NonFiction #History #Archaeology #Maritime #MaritimeArchaeology

Tonight’s supper reading, Mensun Bound’s “The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance”. I was lucky to get a signed copy from my local bookshop. I rarely read print now due to neuro disease, but this one’s layout and structure is me friendly.
#ErnestShackleton #Shackleton #Antarctic #Antarctica #Endurance #Exploration #Explorers #HistoricShips #Shipwreck #Shipwrecks #Books #Reading #NonFiction #History #Archaeology #Maritime #MaritimeArchaeology

An #unrealEngine visualization project I must return to - a flying virtual tour of #SouthGeorgia #island with an 'introduction' by #ErnestShackleton. This was created using an early version of #CesiumforUnreal, so it'll be interesting to revisit and update in the future when I have some time! Hope you enjoy it. #subAntarctic #digitalHistory #GIS #unrealEngine
https://vimeo.com/579339626

Endurance: Shackleton's ship found 107 years after sinking in Antarctic

#ErnestShackleton #Endurance #Antarctic