As mentioned in a post the other day, I wrote a couple of scripts to create a real-time generative "painting" of Hekla, one of Iceland's most famous volcanoes. In Europe it was widely considered to be the "entryway to Hell". Today, Hekla is also a woman's name. Not all that common but used rather consistently. Well, Hekla (the volcano) has a sister. Her name is Katla. Katla is also a woman's name, less frequent than Hekla but still not all that uncommon (my daughter's name is Katla). Katla (the volcano) is also active. It's underneath the Myrdalsjokull glacier. We've been waiting for it to erupt for quite some time now. The thing is that if Katla erupts, it could be quite devastating as it's not far from inhabited areas (no one lives near Hekla). They even have gates on the highway where they can close a huge section of it if there's a serious threat of Katla erupting. I found out on the news yesterday that they now have a webcam monitoring Katla as well. So if you'd rather see a generative painting of Katla instead of Hekla, just change the following line in the Perl script:
`mplayer -nosound -cache 50 -frames 1 -vo png mms://213.167.158.211/hekla/`; To: `mplayer -nosound -cache 50 -frames 1 -vo png mms://213.167.158.211/katla/`; And you'll get the more sinister of the two sisters. -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
