Centripetal Notion: category

Or as Matthew Oliphant calls it, “colorizing images and movies with squiggles”. Students at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering (HUJ-RSBSCSE for short I guess?, just rolls off the tounge) have devised a way to add simple marks to areas of an image or video [...]

His latest takes 40,000 photos tagged “sunset” last year, each positioned horizontally according to the day taken, and vertically according to the hour. You can watch the year progress as the summer and winter solstices fade back and forth.

Think you have a brilliant idea about how sunlight relates to bear reproduction relates to milk prices? Me too. Put your data where your mouth is.

The Whitney Music Box, a procedural music visualization derived from work by John Whitney, has been updated to include a number of variations on the original.

I ask myself everyday. Seriously.

“each of the 48 dots moves in a circle on a 3 minute cycle. at the end of 3 minutes, the outermost dot will have moved around the circle once (this dot represents the 1st harmonic or fundamental). the next dot will have moved around the circle twice (representing the 2nd harmonic), & so on. each dot triggers a note when it passes the zero degree line, so that the pattern causes chords, ascending & descending runs & melodies to be heard.”

Like other treemaps (which are tools to visualize hierarchical data), but the size of the graph stays the same as you zoom into each sector.

Justin Mullin has collected equations and theorems he feels correspond to more tangible ideas like birth, family, mystery, etc., and now sells posters of his work in addition to having his first gallery exhibit later this month.

Treemaps are a method for visualizing information that completely and recursively subdivide a given area into cells, where each cell’s area corresponds to certain attributes in the data set. In other words, you can look at an otherwise large set of data, and instantly distinguish trends and patterns from the wealth of information in front of you. (…)

Building on that idea are Michael Balzer and Oliver Deussen from the University of Konstanz, Germany, who use an algorithm based on Voronoi tessellations, a method which allows for organizing data into more complex shapes like shown in the image above, producing a more intuitive and flexible treemap that closely resembles the patterns formed by soap bubbles or living cells.

Specifically, chou Romanesco.