A visualization of death tolls from September 11, Iraq, Indian Ocean tsunami, and Darfur, Sudan. The visualization uses four particle systems to generate circles for each location, differentiated by size, color. Each circle represents 1000 people killed. The life of particles is the total number of deaths in thousands. The size of each particle is the sum (in millions) of the number of results from five Google searches for
death
dead
casualties
killed
death toll
to represent our collective interest and compassion for each crisis.
Due to the large death count in Darfur, the particles would not fade out before exiting the screen. So, I added methods so the particles would bounce off of the bottom and side of the window. This is accomplished by reversing the acceleration vector of a particle as it hits a point below the window (to give the illusion of compression). The acceleration increases after collision to indicate the souls’ release from their bodies. Representations of Iraq and Sept 11 quickly puff out of the window, so I didn’t give them bouncing abilities.
To engage the viewer and emphasize the concept, the user can interact with the particles using a mouse. This feature proved too disruptive to the larger circles and took away from the effectiveness of the presentation. To play on the visual idea of souls flowing from the location, moving the mouse can disrupt or pause the path of a particle, so the user can speed up release of souls or catch a few so they fade before they can exit the window. To accomplish this, a particle’s acceleration vector is altered by subtracting the current mouse location from the previous frame’s mouse location so moving slowly seems to hold the particle under the mouse and moving quickly seems to collide with it.
NOTE: firefox and camino seem better than safari at rendering the visualization
P.S.:
I received a greenlight today for exhibiting the currently-unnamed 3-d video mapping applet you can find below. It will be modified so that the projection into 3-d space is determined by pixel brightness and sound levels around the installation. It will be shown at TN’s Bonnarroo Music & Arts Festival in various spots so it will respond to live performances. Hopefully a sizeable portion of the 100,000 attendees will experience it. The installation will use a mac, microphone, DV camera, lcd projector, walls, and white bedsheets. I will update with lots of photos, etc, of the video project as well as the sand, bamboo, and rock installation I am working on.
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enter an address for a graph (made with processing)
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Here are some demonstration sketches I put togeather with Processing for a presentation last week. I’ll put up my final project (a data visualization) once its finished. Processing is an open-source language and environment for doing neat stuff easily.
Orthdir demo:
This applet draws a series of boxes with user-manipulable lighting, viewing angle, and orthographic projection.
Move the mouse to change the directional lighting.
Click and hold the mouse to zoom in.
Press ‘1′ and move mouse to change camera position.
Press ‘2′ and move mouse to alter orthographic projection of the boxes.
Cam demo:
This applet takes live video from a camera and translates the pixels into a three dimensional space based on pixel brightness and mouse location along the x axis.
Move the mouse left to right to alter the distance pixels are mapped along the z axis.
Cam uses your computer’s default capture device.
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blackpool lights - ep [self released]
jim suptic from the get up kids
black heart procession - the spell [touch and go]
unfortunately not a murder mystery concept album (like their last)
*beirut - gulag orkestar [ba da bing!]
balkan gypsy baroque carnival
grandaddy - just like the fambly cat [v2]
fuzzy pop rock
sound team - “movie monster” [capitol/emi]
anthemic space rock
*charlatans uk - simpatico [sanctuary]
dreamy powerpop on top of dub/reggae beats and piano, clav, organs, synths
zach hill and mick barr [5rc]
zach hill of hella/ladies and co. bring more frenetic rambling
neil young - living with war [reprise]
hate bush? we have the album for you!
*matmos - the rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast [matador]
thumping sexy robot music made from synths, samples, and household items
carey ott - lucid dream [dualtone]
a little bit country, a little bit britpop, a lot of rock
mittens - fools on a holiday [bodies of water arts and crafts]
short morsels of twangy catchy rock
snow patrol - eyes open [a&m]
upbeat rock recalls 90s alternative
*bob ricci - not a christmas album [music deals]
reincarnation of weird al for modern pop culture. .parodying u2, lfo, pink, shania twain, …
illegal substance - sampler [selfreleased]
is he a lost beastie boy? or just an impersonator..
holy shit - stranded at two harbors [uunited acoustic]
dreamy lofi drenched in reverb
**art brut - bang bang rock & roll [fierce panda/downtown/banana]
they sing “its not irony, its rock and roll” with their balls on walls
violins - pink water [contraphonic/no karma]
brit rock with their balls in their pants
**the ark - state of the ark [rebel group/emi]
head shaking, playful arena glam anthems from sweden
helvetia - the clever north wind [the static cult]
nice downtempo indie pop
languis - other desert cities [pehr]
atmospheric shoegaze meets 80s new wave
bruce springsteen - we shall overcome the seeger sessions [columbia]
the boss tackles classic country and bluegrass without rehersal (filed under BOSS)
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