Wired New York Webcam

**Edward** · April 22nd, 2004, 01:16 AM

I would like to announce Wired New York Webcam. I spent several hours last night trying to make it work, and it seems operational, in time for arrival of Queen Mary 2.

The webcam is working today, but I am not sure what will happen tomorrow, enjoy it while it's operational.

The picture, http://www.wirednewyork.com/webcam/wirednewyork.jpg is updated every 10 seconds, and, correspondingly, the Webcam page is reloaded every 10 seconds using Javascript.

If you experience any problems viewing the webcam, post it here.

**Edward** · April 22nd, 2004, 07:51 AM

Here the image taken at 7:40 am this morning. Image quality is not very high, so it's hard to appreciate the size of the ship

The red streaks come from the webcam, unfortunately.

**TLOZ Link5** · April 22nd, 2004, 12:38 PM

Wow.

**NYatKNIGHT** · April 22nd, 2004, 12:44 PM

8)

**Edward** · April 22nd, 2004, 09:57 PM

After a day of broadcasting, the following changes will improve the viewing experience in my opinion. I am increasing the size of the picture from 320x240 to 640x480, but reducing the refresh rate to 1 frame per minute.

**Archit_K** · April 22nd, 2004, 10:37 PM

Thanks Edward

**Edward** · April 23rd, 2004, 11:48 PM

I have created an animation from the output of the webcam, 12 frames taken 1 minute apart, but showing it in 12 seconds. It shows Queen Mary 2 leaving New York on a one-day trip. The file is in Macromedia Flash format.

http://www.wirednewyork.com/webcam/webcam3.swf

**BigMac** · April 24th, 2004, 12:58 AM

Neat!

**TLOZ Link5** · April 24th, 2004, 11:22 AM

Bye, see you soon!

Oy, I'm such a cruise junkie.

**clasione** · May 11th, 2004, 01:43 AM

Vewy Vewy Cool

**Edward** · May 16th, 2004, 04:23 PM

Some pictures from archive:

4 May 2004

9 May 2004

16 May 2004

**Eugenius** · June 25th, 2004, 04:48 PM

Hey, I thought it was updating every 10 seconds...
When I checked on the cam, it was updating only once each minute. No big deal, though. Still very cool.

**Edward** · November 15th, 2004, 11:18 AM

I have installed a new webcam insted of the old one. Picture quality is now better, and I have changed the refresh rate to every 30 sec. Here is the current picture: