Mocubix · Exhibit 03 · Hurricane Florence, 12 September 2018

Throw the page

Three minutes over Hurricane Florence, photographed from the space station. Where you are on the page decides what you see. How fast you move is a separate signal, read on the scale that measures hurricanes: throw the page hard enough and you reach the Category 4 Florence was that morning.

11:50 GMTThe station comes over the storm 11:52 GMTStraight down into the eyewall 11:51 GMTThe eye, through Alexander Gerst's long lens. Now throw the page.

Your throw · 30 px a second to the knot

Calm

0px/s0knots

Position is a where. Velocity is a how.

Everything else in this collection answers to where you are. This page also listens to how you are moving. It reacts at once and lets go slowly, so a trackpad's small jitters never register and a hard throw reads as momentum. Four more storms from the other side of the world, seen by NASA's MODIS cameras.