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Category Archives: visualization
character depth
the national research center of canada produced the most in-depth imaging study to date of leonardo’s gioconda via meiver
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downcycling
heather rogers’ gone tomorrow:the hidden life of garbage is a wonderful short documentary that shows how the myth of recycling was created by materials manufacturers to convince people that plastics and metals are recyclable as a way to feel good about consuming more and more via meiver
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visualizing hatred
a number of stunning visualizations portray the violence our government inflicts on the world: john maeda’s text visualization of 400,000 dead in darfur, obleek.com’s animation of deaths in iraq over space and time, cryptome.org’s graphs of american dead in iraq, the recent new york times graphic of mideast tensions, and visualisation of relative israeli UN […]
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torture paintings
fernando botero’s obese style of figurative painting was often humorous and whimsical, but that changed when he chose to depict the torture at abu ghraib. now the subjects’ fatness seems to add to the already extreme obscenity of these scenes see the paintings
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baby graphics
speaking of simplicity i read in yesterday’s new york times about the first neo-natal channel and was inspired by how successful these simple graphic concepts are for babies and adults alike: watching a drawing being made by subtraction and addition, the simple parallax of a mobile or the put put of a car.
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text-a-building
a cell phone can be used as a remote control to change the world around us: a number of projects reveal the potential of an SMS universal remote. IDEO built this interactive cube for vodafone in 2002 – it sits in the middle of a pond surrounded by offices, and in addition to playing news […]
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ripples
this beautiful app by jos stam generates animations of the rippling light at the bottom of a pool – a physical phenomena called ‘caustics,’ which can be described by the legendre collapse:
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