Facials

In some cultures, it’s rude to look someone right in the eye. Video must be quite a problematic medium in this scenario. I can understand the vulnerability - opening up a Google search to the intimacy of your own features. This is the test run that I used to do a ‘dirty run’ with the [...]

Virtual Chumby

The Chumby

Well I have been rather stuck lately. I’ve been reading a lot about visualising information and trawling through the precedents list, but nothing seems to be sticking in the ideas department. It is really frustrating not to feel like I am moving forward. The whole process with DMDN412 has been quite challenging.
The project proposal that [...]

BBC Visualising data

Here are a couple of good precedents for imaging and visualisation of data. I’m probably heading more towards the textual, but they are really nice sketches to place in comparison anyway.
GPS Tracking visualisation

NYTimes Medal Visualisation

Found at information aesthetics

Visual Representation

Here are some visual sketches to support the text as space. All built with Processing (Java).
Textflow

Kinetic

Links
Processing (Ruby) - The Shoebox
Processing (Ruby) 2 - Howto
Processing (Ruby) 3 - gitbyte Mac Daddy

Lashings of Process

The process is really coming along. I have put together the beginnings of a prototype in Ruby on Rails. The prototype is an open comment system to harvest and rate suggestions. The aim is to create data from users, and in the process have a unique dataset and social interaction at the end of it [...]

Launch Pont

Intro Duction
For a launching point, I’m going with the following:
Theoretical Influence and Launch Point
Social theory is an essential tool used by scholars in the analysis of society; through the use of theoretical frameworks social structures and phenomena are analyzed and placed in context within a particular school of thought. The field is interdisciplinary, drawing ideas [...]

Thesis Swarm

Thesis proposal:
In the age of the knowledge economy we are thrust into a time in history that no known civilisation before has encountered. Our institutional knowledge as a species grows and is documented everyday via the world wide web. Our ability to classify and store information is increasing, and because of the sheer amount of [...]

John Maeda - Visual Art and Technology

John Maeda (born 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author. He is the current President of the Rhode Island School of Design, a position assumed in June 2008. His work in design and technology explores the area where the two fields merge. (Wiki)

John Maeda’s website

In 1999, he [...]

Noah Wardrip-Fruin - Screen (2002-present)

Screen is a CAVE type experience where a user is immersed through into a virtual space of text. The user can manipulate the text and is encouraged to “play” by physically manipulating the words around the environment as they increasingly fall from the space.
Full article on Noah’s website here.
I like the idea of play as [...]