Kinect Living Painting Demos
An application that can paint still images, video, and video from Kinect with background subtraction. Multiple layers can be created to achieve complex visual results. Blending painted users with painted stills and video in real time. Sound reactive brushes are also available, size and movement being controlled by audio levels. The application uses Cinder an opensource C++ library, OpenGL, and some advanced programming to achieve over 100,000 brushes with multiple source layers in real time.
More here.
Interactive Music Map
Here.
Ta Will.
SPEK
SPEK is an audiovisual experiment linked to the idea of ‘visual music’, a visual exploration of sound.
The State Of The Internet | Live Infographic
The problem with infographics (aside from the fact that there are way too many of them) is that once they are saved and shared they are already kinda out of date. Which is what makes this live, interactive version much more interesting. It constantly calculates various internet and social statistics based on the amount of time you are on the page. For example, it’s calculating how many new websites have launched, what the mood of the internet is, the fastest rising Google searches, gender usage for a host of the worlds biggest sites, how much time we spend online and even how much money is being spent online right now…
Nice.
Here.
Via.
Jenny Odell | Satellite Collections
Jenny Odell collects cut out things from Google Satellite View and makes pictures from those things.
Awesome pictures.
Waterslides
All the basketball courts in Manhattan.
More here.
Visual.ly
Visual.ly is a tool that enables everyone to quickly and easily create professional quality designs with their own data.
Here.
Kinect Graffiti™
Kinect Graffiti™ is a digital graffiti tool using “Microsoft Kinect” camera. Idea behind this project is to use the kinect to track the motion behind graffiti. Visualizing the body and drawing trough different angles in realtime, understanding surrounding space, pausing the time, etc…
Built in processing & openGL, SimpleOpenNI, openNI and primeSense libraries.
Flickr here.
Site here.
Nike+ Is Kinda Bullshit
Using data from Nike+ users in New York City who tracked their runs, students at the MFA Interaction Design class at SVA were asked to visualize a portrait of runners and bicyclists on the move in NYC.
Allison Shaw charted the impossible things Nike+’s popular, but astonishingly fallible, tech claims it can do. Millions of people trust Nike+ to keep track of their workouts, but as with all technology, that trust evaporates the first time it makes a mistake. The purpose of this tongue-in-cheek infographic is to point out the errors and pitfalls within the Nike+ system, so that it can be improved in the future. Specifically highlighted are impossibe paces (too fast, too slow—and even negative), impossible altitude readings (one likely taken from inside an airplane and one from under sea level), GPS errors (probably induced by signal blocking skyscrapers), and the point at which the battery in the GPS unit dies (around three hours).
Larger image here.
Cooper Smith set out to examine the data from a variety of angles, considering location, pace, distance, time, and even temperature, attempting to pair them together and find correlations that paint a complete picture of what it means to be a runner in New York City.
Awesome.
The collection can be seen here.
ViaFastcodedesign.
OECD Better Life Index
Your Better Life Index is designed to let you visualise and compare some of the key factors – like education, housing, environment, and so on – that contribute to well-being in OECD countries. It’s an interactive tool that allows you to see how countries perform according to the importance you give to each of 11 topics that make for a better life.
Here.
ViaDave.
Statigram
Instastats.
Here.
NYT Cascade
The New York Times R&D division has developed Cascade, a dataviz tool that analyzes the underlying structures of sharing information across the web. The tool visualizes “how information propagates through the social media space.” With it, users can see the lifecycle of a sharing conversation, the connection between the readers and publishers, and the most influential sharers and contributors to a conversation.
More on the NYT Labs site.
Data Viz Escapes Into The Real World
Largely as a result of David Mccandless, infographics are taking over the world these days. The evidence is pretty compelling, you can’t move for simple primarily-coloured astute (yet witty) data visualizations. In fact, it seems data viz has become so powerful over the last few years that it has actually managed to grow it’s own brain and escape the confines of David’s computer. Now using real-world materials to construct itself into a series of graphics – in this case representing the state of the Internet.
Whatever next?
You’ve got lot to answer for Mccandless.
Flickrset here.
Photo’s by Jose Duarte.
114.psd Type
More here.
Light Painting WiFi
A project that explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using light-painting.
ViaCPLUV.
A History of the World in 100 Seconds
Many wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia’s view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered. This won “Best Visualization” at Matt Patterson’s History Hackday in January, 2011. To make it, we parsed an xml dump of all wikipedia articles (30Gb) and pulled out 424,000 articles with coordinates and 35,000 references to events. Cross referencing these produced 15,500 events with locations. Then we mapped them over time.
More here.
ViaTomU.