Comments on: Cool spatial visualizations

Question: Cool spatial visualizations

signal — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:22:02 -0800

Looking for cool, interesting, representations of spatial data.

Striking and innovative visualizations of spatially located datasets. Doesn't need to be to scale or even 'realistic' (i.e.: it could show topographical or conceptual relationships), but the information should have some sort of relationship with its position in space. Much of the stuff on infosthetics would fit the bill, as would some of our own Andrew Cooke's work.
Maps, schematics, plans, real-time graphics, anything which shows real data in real space in an unreal way is welcome. If it relates to people in space or how they use space, even better.

By: Gyan

Gyan — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:52:30 -0800

Ben Fry's work immediately springs to mind.

By: Gyan

Gyan — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:57:31 -0800

From there, the ACG group at MIT is an obvious next step.

By: |n$eCur3

|n$eCur3 — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:41:44 -0800

Well, there is concept net, another MIT project. Also the classic example music plasma, built with Topic maps.

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:45:22 -0800

HyperLIC.

These visualizations make me shiver with pleasure.

By: signal

signal — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:35:47 -0800

Just to be clear, I'm not looking for spatialized representations of non-spatial datasets (like the music plasma example), but rather representations of information which is spatial to begin with.

By: Gyan

Gyan — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 01:38:20 -0800

At the moment, I can suggest projections of non-Euclidean surfaces on Euclidean surfaces, like the Poincare disc. My first link has projects representing the genome (which exists in space).

By: JJ86

JJ86 — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:16:31 -0800

Check out the work of Edward Tufte. He is probably the most knowledgeable person on the structuring of information into visual representations. He offers many seminars around the country as well. His books are an incredible wealth of info on the topic.