I haven't changed the main Furaha website in quite some time. The odd thing about old sites is that sometimes animations stop working or images become invisible, even though they did work initially, and nothing changed.
I was asked by someone, who wanted to know more about animal locomotion, about some of these animations. I decided that some attention was long overdue and started work on it. I found that in some cases the case of one letter differed in the html file and the actual file name, so it seemed that html has become less forgiving. I also added -slightly- more modern html code to make the animation work better.
I then recalled that someone else had asked whether the old 'Furaha right now' page would ever be reinstated. That page showed pictures of the planet around its sun Jua and of the distribution of light and dark on the planetary surface, updater roughly every Earth hour. At one point I had to remove that page because at the time I could not store all 900 images for one year on the server, and so had to remember refreshing them every month or so. I have more room now, so I polished the output a bit, ran the Matlab programs again, transferred the 900 images and made a new menu item: 'Furaha right now'.
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| Click to enlarge; copyright Gert van Dijk |
Here is an example image showing a map with day and night areas, as well as two globes representing the dayside and the nightside of the planet, at one particular time of day and particular point in the planet's orbit.
If you revisit the page often enough, you may find out how humans on the planet devised a calendar to cope with their 551.1 day long year.
However, nothing else has been changed, because I do not have the time: I am working on The Book and a different art project altogether. But I will get to it. At one point.
