Category Archives: visualization

thanks to alex tingle’s flood maps i was able to create this animation of my house and global warming. each frame represents a sea level rise of 1 meter, and as you can see it doesn’t survive past 6 meters of so. on the positive side, my office seems to flood a little before. via […]

in the 1970s the US launched exploratory spacecraft destined to outlive the sun and the earth. as the sole artifacts of our species, these spacecraft were adorned with tiny markers that would serve for aliens to identify us. 1973’s pioneer spacecraft was adorned with a tiny etched metal plaque designed together with the help of […]

this handy application generates a pdf of any industrial sign you want – warnings, osha, hazmat…

in italo calvino’s invisible cities there exists one city with contains within a model of itself that is constantly being updated to reflect changes in the real city. some say there is a model of the city being built and maintained in the model of the city, as well. adam frank’s replica projects a real-time […]

yahoo’s new pipes allow you to play a little more with the internet by creating your own aggregators of web content (i.e. find an apartment for rent near a park) through a quasi-intuitive graphical interface where the sources of information, operators and user inputs are windows connected by pipes. the programming language works kind of […]

chris jordan’s photomontages illustrate american consumerism through statistically generated massive tiled images of the products and processes that feed us. what if they could be automatically generated in real-time from product images already widely circulated?

researcher gail patricelli is using a camera-laden decoy female sage grouse to document and understand mating from the female’s point of view. the same idea has been tried with lady coy, in which a decoy woman attracts and documents street harassment. the decoy makes an interesting experimental platform: without the bias of being an observer, […]