While Kate and Steph are off nude sunbathing or something down in Florida, I'll be here doing research for my senior seminar.
I'm doing a study of rail lines in Southern New Jersey, finding the number of households within a certain distance, calculating that distance from the rail line to each house and estimating the amount of people in those houses. I think that as I get more done, I'll post it online.
Oh, do you know those "Images made with Math"? Visually interesting abstracts generated from a computer, they're the pinup of mathemagicians. I've been using Spatial Analyst quite a bit, and I've generated plenty of pinups. For example, here's one. It's an allocation from a cost distance road network added to a straightline distance from the same road network... which is basically a surface that's the approximate distance from the rail line (not shown) using the road network. If you're not on the road network, you take the shortest distance to the road network and continue on to the rail line from there.
Sunday will be River Line's time to shine!
