FAIRprogress
The FAIR accelerator complex is currently constructed.
Here's an animated gif of yesterday's construction site.
Picture from 21.10.2018
What? More? How? Who?!
Background
Since 2012, the buildings for the international accelerator facility FAIR are being constructed. First, woodland was cleared, then the civil engineering started. In a few years, where once stood trees one of the world's most advanced basic research facility will be located.
There's a webcam taking pictures every 15 minutes. Based on these pictures FAIRprogress provides animated gifs for each day.
Archives
For the time being, all quarter-hourly pictures are archived as well as the animated gifs. Just check out the /images/ directory of this website and go through the listings. They are sorted by year/month/date.
Techniques
A cronjob wgets the picture every 15 minutes. Every night, ImageMagick's convert produces a small, lossy gif animation as well as a big lossless one. (Do you have ideas for better looking configurations of convert? Just let me know.)
This website per default shows the small one. A click will display the big picture - but prepare for long loading time, the file is about 0.00 B.
Who?
Hi. I'm Andreas.
I'm doing my PhD at PANDA, one of the experiments located at FAIR.
Say hi!