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.

Here.

Ta Will.

SPEK is an audiovisual experiment linked to the idea of ‘visual music’, a visual exploration of sound.

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(aside from the fact that there are way too many of them) is that once they are saved and shared they are already kinda out of date.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.

Awesome pictures.

Waterslides

All the basketball courts in Manhattan.

More here.

Visual.ly is a tool that enables everyone to quickly and easily create professional quality designs with their own data.

Here.

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.

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.

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.

Instastats.

Here.

More on the NYT Labs site.

Whatever next?

You’ve got lot to answer for Mccandless.

Flickrset here.

Photo’s by Jose Duarte.

More here.

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.

More here and here.

ViaCPLUV.

More here.

ViaTomU.

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram.

Here.

Do horoscopes really just all say the same thing?

Here.

From Dave.

Nike Grid data visualization on YouTube.

Here.

Here.

Live availability information based on the Boris Bikes API.

ViaDigitalUrban.

My good friend Mr David McCandless strutting his stuff for TED.

Awesome.

Nothing like a bit of geosocial universe visualisation to brighten up your Sunday.

Click to enlarge/save for your next deck.

ViaGigaOM.

Site here.

Via.

Geo startup, Movity, has built a well sweet little visualization device called Weeplaces. It’s a simple idea that enables Foursquare users to visualize their check-ins. The tech shows where you’ve been and the volume of your check-ins over a give period. Yellow lines connecting your current location to the previous, so you kinda get a track of your motion.

Here.

The mood in the USA based on over 300 million tweets, over the course of the day. The maps are represented using density-preserving cartograms (what ever they are):

More here.

South Korean high school students cheering for their teams create a human LCD using only their clothes.

Impressive.

Karsten Schmidt exploration into a computational approach to color.

Flickrset.

Demo source code.

ViaKitsuneNoir.

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Follow a high-speed replay of the World Cup and find out how Twitter reacted to every game.

Here.

Lovely.

From The Mighty Mr Kevin Yuan.

Here.