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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Marcus, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The result looks so much like iconic tornado vids that we wannabee tornado chasers idolize that one suspects that the video was back constructed from that film, rather than developing organically from the physics. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>N<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clark University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marcus Daniels<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>With a few minutes of digging, the original video can be traced back to a simulation done by <a href="http://twister.ou.edu/">http://twister.ou.edu/</a> who has his publications here <a href="http://twister.ou.edu/vita.html#pubs">http://twister.ou.edu/vita.html#pubs</a>. The video came from a different specialist in visualization, Greg Foss:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=134516&org=NSF">https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=134516&org=NSF</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s apparently a standard code used to study tornados, there’s a list of users and their publications and the governing equations. <a href="https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/people/bryan/cm1/">https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/people/bryan/cm1/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Should you take any of this seriously? Well, read the papers and decide. Is it the fact there is some eye candy causing you to doubt that there is science behind it? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marcus<o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of "<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 2:26 PM<br><b>To: </b>'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p>Dear Phellow Phriammers, <o:p></o:p></p><p>Is this eyecandy, or should I take it seriously?<o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gQutQQiuAI&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gQutQQiuAI&feature=youtu.be</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>