The New York Times has a short writeup on an entertaining visualization of what 25,000 Barrels of Oil looks like, using the Unreal Gaming Engine to stack them 15,000 ft high and then knocking them down

Here’s a new entrant, using software tools from the gaming world to illustrate what a low-end estimate of the volume of oil gushing from the Gulf of Mexico seabed looks like if displayed as stacked barrels. (Hat tip to my elder son, Daniel, who saw this on Kotaku.com.)

via 25,000 Barrels of Oil Seen a New Way – Dot Earth Blog – NYTimes.com.

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