prosthetic knowledge

The Planimator

Interactive animated 3D urban visualization of development from Bengler Visualization:

How could one show the entire history of cases while preserving the spatial and the temporal? This presentation renders the individual cases three dimensionally as spheres on the plane of the city map and animates them in time. Spheres are sized according to the amount of correspondance the case has and colored by case type. The design highlights the continuous transformation of the city, areas of intense development and the sheer workload of the planning authority.

Created with WebGL and three.js - you can try it out here [Chrome Only]

Video Game Traversals

Gaming + Data Visualization - Nearly 100 hours of gameplay on Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, captured and displayed as a whole.

From the Software Studies Initiative:

This project represents nearly 100 hours of playing two videogames as high resolution visualizations. This representation allows us to study the interplay of various elements of gameplay, and the relationship between the travel through game spaces and the passage of time in game play.

You can read more about the project and how it was put together here, plus more images on their Flickr profile here

Online Twitter Visualizer Spot and the Search Term ‘wtf wikipedia’

Spot is a simple browser-based Twitter visualizer that can group ‘particles’ on a particular keyword.

With the entry ‘wtf wikipedia’, you can see a collection of tweets featuring teenagers complaining of Wikipedia’s black-out due to their homework needs …

More about Spot here
To see a collection of misguided tweets related to Wikipedia and homework can be seen here.

Minjeong An

Creative, diagrammatic self-portraits of the artist.

The full size versions of the works can be found on the artist’s website (although it seems to have taken a bit hit in traffic)

http://myartda.com/

Alternatively, you can see more at 50Watts profile of the artist.

Data Visualization: World travel and communications recorded on Twitter

By Eric Fischer

Great Britain. Her natural and industrial resources

Infographic map of Great Britain made in late 1930s, at Boston Public Library:

Title: Great Britain. Her natural and industrial resources

Created/Published: New York City : Distributed by the British Information Services, an agency of the British Government

Date issued: 1939-1945 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print (poster) : color

Summary: Map of Great Britain’s resources.

Genre: Travel posters; Prints; Maps

Notes: Title from item.

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: Rights status not evaluated

[Link]

Etsy Data Visualization Scarf

By Natalie B:

One of a kind data representation scarf based on Etsy data from August 2005 - October 2011. Left (red) graph represents Items Sold by Month. Right (dark gray) graph represents New Members by Month.

Sense Of Patterns - Visualizing Mobility Data In Public Spaces

Ongoing project to track and beautifully present how people en masse travel around their cities:

Sense of Patterns is an on-going project, a series of printed data visualizations aiming to depict the behaviors of masses in different public spaces. The visualizations have a focus on the patterns of moving entities in public like commuters, cars and public transportation vehicles as well as the interaction between these entities and physical structures like roads, sidewalks, buildings and parks. The project intends to provide strong visuals on what we all experience in our daily lives in different cities.

The above example is a poster of ‘One Day Of Taxis’ - many more posters can be found here.

Computer graphics is bringing to light the ecosystems of the deep (via Hooded Fang*)

Graphics. The mind’s eye for those who think tomorrow.

Advert found in an old Scientific America magazine.

Language communities of Twitter (via Flowing Data)

Eric Fischer maps language communities on Twitter using Chrome’s open-source language detector. Each color, chosen to make differences more visibly obvious, represents a language. English is represented in dark gray, which is used just about everywhere, so it doesn’t obscure everything else.

More information and links can be found here

Satellite images of Earth show roads, air traffic, cities at night and internet cables (via The Telegraph)

Felix Pharand-Deschenes has created global snapshots depicting how power lines, roads and even air traffic corridors have come to dominate the surface of Earth. His visualisations based on real data show air traffic routes, the underwater cables that carry the internet, road and rail networks and electricity transmission lines all superimposed over cities at night.

Felix’s visualisations showing how human technology has taken over our crowded planet come just one week before the global population is set to top seven billion. The United Nations Populations Fund has revealed that by October 31st, there will be an extra billion people on the Earth compared to 1999.

Felix used US government sources like the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Oceanic for railways, pipelines and roads as well as the Atmospheric Administration for the air traffic to piece together the visualisations.

“These pictures show several sides of global human activities,” said 34-year-old Felix, from Montreal, Canada. “We see everything from paved and unpaved roads, light pollution, railways, electricity transmission lines. All the way to submarine cables, pipelines, shipping lanes and air traffic. The show the extent of our civilisation, the patterns of our global sprawl, how human-influenced our planet now is.”

All 13 visuals can be found here

Circle Of Trust - Online visualization of your relationships in Google +

“As you connect with your google plus account you are about to discover how many people you have inside of what I like to call… the circle of trust”.

It displays how many of your links are mutual, have you circled by someone else, and you circling them. Once you allow access, you will get the visualization like the one above - this one is for the Prosthetic Knowledge account. What it can tell you is how asymmetric your connections in Google + are.

You can share the visualization on Twitter, Facebook, and, of course, Google +.

You can try it for yourself here

Definitive Timeline to the film ‘Primer’ via Unreality Magazine

Primer is a great sci-fi film, but one of the most confusing movies ever made. It takes the subject of time travel, and all the implications that follow, and lays them out in the most complicated, but accurate fashion possible. It takes a LOT of analysis to fully understand the film, and even though I thought I did, this chart proves me wrong.

Link to original post, which includes the high definition image of the timeline, can be found here