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Random Etc. - Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About

Philipp Heidkamp — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:24:22 +0000

Random Etc. - Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About

ART+COM - Invisible Shape of Things Past

Philipp Heidkamp — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:42:01 +0000

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.

Felice Varini

Philipp Heidkamp — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:50:07 +0000

Felice Varini
2D / 3D optical illusions

Dark Roasted Blend: Optical Illusions Update

Philipp Heidkamp — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:44:05 +0000

Dark Roasted Blend: Optical Illusions Update

Lots Of Numbers

Philipp Heidkamp — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:02:30 +0000

Lots Of Numbers
This website is a showcase for numbers – all types of numbers from all over the shop, assembled in a themed collection or floating purposefully in time and space.

One… singular sensation // Tea for two // Three blind mice // Six degrees of separation // Eight is enough // The 12 apostles // Fifteen minutes of fame and 99 Luftballons - numbers are crucial and here you will find numbers in urban space.

Jaron Lanier

Philipp Heidkamp — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:39:01 +0000

Jaron Lanier
Again, or still, an interesting person. Really the inventor of VR (in the early 1990ies). See his Bio to learn more about a fragmented and complex personality.
“In effort to make utopianism respectable once again”, as he said, he gave a speach about 1000 year optimistic scenario. You can see some slides of of the PowerPoint Presentation . He might have given this speach in the context of his Fellowship at Ernst and Young (before, while or after)?
Some interesting video footage of Jaron, being invited by the Future Salon - but just after a 20 minutes introduction.

Download logos | GMK Free Logos

Philipp Heidkamp — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:36:18 +0000

Download logos | GMK Free Logos
Very useful - a wide range of Logos worldwide, both pixel- and vectorbased. That´s it.

First and Second Life

Philipp Heidkamp — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:19:47 +0000

First and Second Life
How to refer to SL if you are in your FL? You can use Firstbling, a necklace showing that you are one of the current 8.500.000 SL residents. Actually, this device is not interactive, no RFID tags, no intelligent comunication device, nothing - just a reference.

Actually, the SL hype goes on. There are the first signs that people in FL start to behave pretty strange:

(Thanks to Oliver Wrede). BTW: draftfcb is another advertisting agency using YouTube to promote their work…

So if you see people like this, watch out for the Firstbling. And wake them up…

Eliot Noyes by Gordon Bruce

Philipp Heidkamp — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:10:11 +0000

Eliot Noyes by Gordon Bruce
Gordon Bruce, Principal, Gordon Bruce Design LLC, has been a design consultant for 34 years, and has worked with many international corporations in Europe, Asia and the US. He is presently is a design consultant for Lenovo and Changhong in China. He was also a former VP for Art Center’s Kyoto program and Chairman of Product Design for the Innovative Design Lab of Samsung (IDS) in Seoul, Korea.

Gordon is the author of the new monograph, has published a powerful book about Eliot Noyes. “He’s one of the giants on whose shoulders we’re standing. Eliot and his team changed the landscape of American design.” As Gordon worked together with Eliot Noyes and Paul Rand (long before being responsible for the big design change at Samsung - see articles here and here) he really knows what he s talking about. As a DMI member he gives lectures every know and then (mostly US).

Viz4All

Philipp Heidkamp — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:28:01 +0000

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.