Robert Denton

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Data Visualization – Flight Patterns

Flight Patterns

This is very nice looking stuff. I’ve linked to Processing before as a cool tool and it’s nice to see people doing interesting projects. It is out of Celestial Labs which is a planetarium artwork in progress combining “science, statistical display, and contemporary art by interpreting the mechanical patterns and behaviors of these systems as culturally significant poetics.”

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to commercial software tools in the same domain.

I advocate for a framework to visualize data where appropriate. Laszlo or Macromedia Flex, Processing or some other tools… it would avoid one-off code, which can be fun but expensive in the long run to maintain compared to a known framework. Check out Processing and see if it fits any projects.

Posted: 03.11.2005 in Design — Tagged — Both comments and pings are currently closed. — RSS 2.0

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