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**UPDATE** I’ve just posted a new video to youtube, and embeded at the bottom of this post, showing the point cloud visualisation running in realtime. You may know from this blog, that I work for a company called Square Enix, and before that Eidos.  SE is a video games publisher, famous for Final Fantasy, and [...]

More TreeMaps…

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My TreeMap tool is getting better, (and prettier!) I’ve built custom tiles, and worked on the sorting.  Colour has been added to, but so far it’s not communicating anything, it just looks nice.  The tiles have transparency (which in this rendering context is the same as brightness) to complement the tile sizes differences.  I’m still [...]

Treemaps and Processing

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At work, I’ve been building some data visualisation tools using processing.  I’ve been looking into building a treemap tool and to test the code I thought I’d throw something big at it.  An entire book… …in ‘Case’ you were wondering, it’s Neuromancer, by William Gibson

Spime.org

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I’ve just been looking through the traffic sources for my wiki and noticed a couple of hits from a site called Spime.org.  It’s a blog by Peter Horvath cataloguing some extraordinary cool designs and concepts in the data visualisation / open hardware space.  There are some truly amazing ideas in there, I love the Magnetic curtains, that hold thier [...]

I love infographics, and this one is just awesome.  It shows in context, the depth of the well that was drilled by the Deepwater Horizon platform which exploded on 20th April 2010.  Click on the image below, or the link above for the full size version. [from: http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/infographic-tallest-mountain-to-deepest-ocean-trench-0249/] Another Infographic on the same subject details [...]

From Doug McCune’s Blog post “If San Francisco Crime were Elevation“.  It’s nice to Data rendered with soft shadows and a bit of radiosity.