WebGL, the 3D technology that's associated with HTML5, continues to make giant strides in diverse areas:
Exploration of human anatomy: Zygote Body, released yesterday, and BioDigital Human, the successors to Google Body (previously)
World Visualisation: WebGL Earth, Nokia's 3D Map of the entire earth (previously). WorldWeather and The WebGL Globe, a Google project that displays all kinds of data. Also: Where Does My Tweet Go?
Games: browser ports of Team Fortess 2, Quake 3 and Rage (a developer’s diary). SkidRacer, an entire game in WebGL. Mini Mass Effect (not yet playable, sadly).
Musicals: Lights.
Tools: 3Notes.js, a visual scene editor. Developer documentation. More resources. [more inside]
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Mar 28, 2012 -
27 comments
Here is a nice wee video that visualises special relativity; not by imagining the viewer to be travelling very fast, but rather by imagining the speed of light to be very slow. The creators of the code used to generate the images in the video have a rather accessible paper explaining the physics behind it
here, and a page full of other lovely relativistic odds and sods
here.
posted by Dim Siawns
on Oct 24, 2011 -
15 comments
How the news spread via twitter Interesting visualisation of tweets of Bin Ladens demise.
"...the Tweet by Rumsfeld chief of staff Keith Urbahn that got the ball rolling was retweeted more than 80 times within one minute after it was sent, and that by the 3-minute mark, it had led to more than 300 reactions"
posted by marienbad
on May 8, 2011 -
22 comments
Jer Thorp is the
New York Times' current Data Artist in Residence. He creates information-rich animations, most recently of the latest
Kepler candidate extrasolar planets [previously]; also a global render of
people's uses of
Twitter.
Lee Byron is a designer, artist, and biker: his work includes visualisations of
Facebook breakups over the course of a year and
Hollywood box office revenues, 1986 - 2008.
David McCandless is an "information journalist"; his blog,
InformationisBeautiful.net, has been
linked to
plenty of
times on the
blue, but you might enjoy
this overview of his work and others at TED. Similarly, Hans Rosling,
also mentioned previously.
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posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Feb 10, 2011 -
6 comments
Torrent Raiders is a dynamic network visualization realized through the idioms and aesthetics of arcade-style video games. Driven in real-time by the activity of bit torrent swarms, Torrent Raiders takes place on the ad-hoc networks created by bit torrent users.
posted by Dave Faris
on Jun 9, 2007 -
13 comments
dlog is a new document visualization system that attempts to show writing not as a static document but a progression of frames over time. I find the suspense of the process mesmerising/delightful. I'm surprised it hasn't been trashed.
posted by tellurian
on Feb 13, 2007 -
30 comments
