{"id":201,"date":"2010-08-12T09:31:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T14:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2010\/08\/12\/the-well-healed-tourmalineand-more\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T09:31:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T14:31:05","slug":"the-well-healed-tourmalineand-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/2010\/08\/12\/the-well-healed-tourmalineand-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Well-Healed&#8221; Tourmaline&#8230;and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Today over at <a href=\"http:\/\/lebowitz.net\/i-realized-something-in-a-meeting-today\">Michael Lebowitz&#8217;s Posterous&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Michael asked:  &#8220;<span>While talking about visualizing time and evolution, it occurred to me that tree rings are naturally occurring data visualization&#8230; any other examples out there?&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Crystals are the perfect example!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This tourmaline out grew the Vug it called home &#8211; broke off and with time and pressure it healed grew a little &#8211; broke &#8211; healed &#8211; grew a little &#8211; broke&#8230;and so on&#8230;until this &#8220;well-healed&#8221; (pun intended) tourmaline was found bent and broken yet solid and a beautiful testament to time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8230;and then of course you also have the various minerals that hit the region represented in the color banding!  YEP!  crystals are the perfect example of naturally occurring data visualization!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>Tourmaline from Paprock, Afghanistan <\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/atomicperfection.com\/&amp;usd=2&amp;usg=AFQjCNFJ-LkItxJxmwZTwd4p1EmS_ZM-aA\">http:\/\/atomicperfection.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/zu5WGILqhyZTg1gt4JJHGQ?feat=embedwebsite\"><img src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d623c_100_0765.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/robynahawk\/FineMineralShowSanFrancisco?feat=embedwebsite\">Fine Mineral Show &#8211; San Francisco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>or&#8230;this gorgeous Aquamarine&#8230;what catastrophic event do you think caused the dramatic loss of color at that particular point in the growth of the crystal? <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>Aquamarine<\/span><span> <\/span><span>from Alpine Mineral Company<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.alpineminerals.com\/minerals.html&amp;usd=2&amp;usg=AFQjCNFNGLgiIktjsikBUGrcLuL6hIMPjg\">http:\/\/www.alpineminerals.com\/minerals.html<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/iG5NKzmyeV3EKn4pxkfOAA?feat=embedwebsite\"><img src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d623c_100_0714.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/robynahawk\/FineMineralShowSanFrancisco?feat=embedwebsite\">Fine Mineral Show &#8211; San Francisco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/eb836_4698837677539896356-7354541735648729529?l=dailyjewel.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today over at Michael Lebowitz&#8217;s Posterous&#8230; Michael asked: &#8220;While talking about visualizing time and evolution, it occurred to me that tree rings are naturally occurring data visualization&#8230; any other examples out there?&#8221; Crystals are the perfect example! This tourmaline out grew the Vug it called home &#8211; broke off and with time and pressure it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}