Design is choice. ”What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult–that is, the revelation of complexity.” Edward R. Tufte
The transparent window or shaped window was supposedly not easy to do. I found that by tweaking in the awt of Java it worked kind of as I would like it to do. On Windows XP. NOT on MacOSX. Also the shaped window which is demonstrated here. If labbed with some more you should find...
Yes, Flash on the Beach 2009, and no its not just Flash developers. It was problably awesome. Sheesh, why can’t people tell me about these kinds of events a little bit sooner
Just as a lot of innovative visualisations are coming from the newly arised social networking theme of the web, we are just beginning to look at visualisations for the enterprise. The visual status of the information an enterprise consists of is not really taken seriously considering the amount of money there is to save if...
Visualising the complete enterprise is not done in an afternoon. One of the key parts of being able to do it at all is having a common point of reference. A common point to refer everything back to. If every piece of information in an enterprise is constantly changing, including values and market behaviour, you...
Thought I’d post this little hack. I picked up the Terzidis book Algorithms for Visual Design (using Processing) and found a version of my own little 3D picking hack and thought that my hack might be ok. I never saw this as anything but a quick hack, but it has helped me alot, still does....
Originally posted December 13 Since a couple of days before vacation started last summer, alot has happened. At that time I had a rough sketch of the structure with nodes displayed in 3D, made with processing. I’m still sketching in processing for implementation in the bigger project if the experiment/sketch worked as intended. Since then...
