MetaFilter posts tagged with visualization and simulation

It's only a model

scalefree — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:30:00 -0800

Interactive Network Maps of Mideast National Relationships Social network analyst Valdis Krebs has put together a pair of interactive network models visualizing the relationships between all the nations & non-nation actors involved in the Mideast crisis. And after you get bored of playing "drag the countries around", check out a few of the other models & maps he's made available. (via)

Dr. Schelling's neighborhood

scalefree — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:37:59 -0800

Dr. Schelling's neighborhood. Is segregation the holdover of a racist past or an inevitable result of simple mathematical processes? After you've read the theory, try it for yourself here, here & here. Dr. Thomas Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics for developing these ideas, but not everybody agrees that he deserved to.

Drawing of an anatomy

Gyan — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:53:39 -0800

Visions of Science

Java applets to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering

Gyan — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:16:07 -0800

Java applets to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering