Tag Archives: visualization
MacRuby easing you into Core Graphics
MacRuby is now v0.4 and HotCocoa::Graphics gets a little better too.
Inspiration for this project was derived from Processing and NodeBox. These excellent Java- and Python-based graphics programming environments are mature and full-featured, but HCG offers similar functionality using the elegant Ruby programming language and the power of native graphics processing on Mac hardware.
Many more [...]
No more data soup
Ran across this book “Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts” and liked the blurb:
We are visual animals. But before we can see the world in its true splendor, our brains, just like our computers, have to sort and organize raw data, and then transform that data to produce new images of the world. Beginning [...]
The Making of Forever / Victoria & Albert Museum
The Making of Forever / Victoria & Albert Museum from Universal Everything.
And catch a glimpse of Karsten Schmidt’s sketchbook as he works out the details.
An idea for the iPhone and GPS
Once again success! Panning for gold in my archives brings this nugget from June 2003:
Amble Time / “A shortcoming of standard maps is their inability to convey a sense of temporal scale. Can I stroll to the park for lunch, or would it take me all day? Amble Time adds an element of time to [...]
Visual Learning
Gong’s post on designcanchange.org reminded me of another project, Visualizing Density. It’s a book, it’s a website, it’s a non-profit. The website requires a registration to see everything. And what will you be seeing? From the book abstract:
[…] an illustrated manual on planning and designing for “good” density, and a catalog of more than 250 [...]
The Wall: A Next Generation Retail Experience