Archived Posts: Info Design
The project Invisible Shape of Things Past by ART+COM enables users to transform film sequences into interactive, virtual objects. This transformation is based on the camera parameters relevant to a particular film sequence on screen: (movement, perspective, focal length). The individual frames of the film are lined up along the path of the camera. The angle of the individual frames relative to the virtual camera path depends on the view from the actual camera, whilst the size of the individual frames depends on the focal length used. The rows of pixels at the frames’ edges define the outer membrane of the film object.
Implementation
VIZ4All (University of Maryland) is a compilation of web based application done by Information Visualization class of 2006 spring. This work was inspired by VIZ4ALL project of Information Visualization spring 2005. The applications reviewed by last year’s VIZ4ALL are excluded in this year’s review. Additional to listing new web based applications that emerged in the web domain over the past year, we also discuss mashups in Web2.0, color design issue in web and list links to information visualization related companies.
Scientists and researchers have known for a long time that the best way to decipher vast quantities of data is to display it visually. Instantly recognizing patterns in a chart, graph or diagram “is wired into our visual system as part of the evolution of humans. Our focus is on visualizing abstract data set which can have various graphic representation.
Each application is categorized based on the following classification; Implementation, Application Domain, Visualization Category.
Many Eyes
The heart of Many Eyes is a collection of data visualizations. Many Eyes allows you to view and discuss visualizations, view and discuss data sets and to create visualizations from existing data sets.
Comparative Test of Public Symbols
This is an online survey to research the existing public symbols and pictogram standards. You can also see the results as a PDF-File.
User Experience Design
Through these ten tempestuous years, I’ve found the infamous three circle diagram to be a great tool for explaining how and why we must strike a unique balance on each project between business goals and context, user needs and behavior, and the available mix of content.
Then Peter came up with the honeycomb of those seven aspects - helpful to understand and explain the design process.
liveplasma music, movies, search engine and discovery engine
A visual search engine for music and movies to be explored “intuitevely”. A very interesting invention in 2005, 2 years later pretty much outdated (but still interesting).
Info Design
22 Jul 2007
The IIID Definition of Information Design
Information design is the defining, planning, and shaping of the contents of a message and the environments it is presented in with the intention of achieving particular objectives in relation to the needs of users
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
Interesting research on graphical interfaces.
The Gapminder World 2006, beta
Another tool by google to map data according to location.
