Biking around Bainbridge Island

Bainbridge provides 33 miles of paved road and pathways, lots of hills (over 2,000 ft. climb) and beautiful scenery. We had a great ride and were lucky enough to stay dry the whole time. If you'd like to go but don't have a bike, Gregg's Greenlake Cycles have rental bikes for $25 per day.

Last week the Google Maps launched My Maps which lets you annotate maps. I tried plotting down the route from today's bike ride and it turned out pretty good. Once I realized that it was better to use the keyboard arrows and pg up/down to move around things got a lot easier. I also noticed that there are now more detailed zooming and 3d models of Seattle buildings. Good job Maps!

Another creation from the same course: Simulation of Tree Blowing in the Wind.
And then there are a few others variations of winds, for example "very strong" and "ridiculous"...

Just found that this old artifact is still around. It's from a UW CSE graphics course I took in 05. This was one of the most fun courses I've taken, especially the ray tracing part. If you'd like to experiment, the tracer skeleton code is still available on the old project page.