Pivot [visualization]

Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.
http://www.getpivot.com

TED Talk about Pivot:

NYC 400 Years Ago

An amazing feat of reconstructing and approximating what NYC looked like 400 years ago.

Are you open-minded?

A great introduction to open-mindedness that blazes by at top speeds. I found this helpful.

Open-mindedness
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Simplistic Music Visualizer

In 1956, György Ligeti composed an electronic piece called “Artikulation”. In 1970’s, Rainer Wehinger created a visual map to the recordings. Some guy out there scanned the images and synced them with the audio. Thanks, guy!
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Visualization Map

Sampled video sequenced with body suit

A body suit controlled by Eboman to modulate and sequence samples recorded from a live video camera. Mattijs Kneppers built the software to make this all happen in Max/MSP for Eboman.


» Mattijs Kneppers website
» An interview with Mattijs from Cycling '74
» Mattijs Kneppers Cycling '74 user page

What is a web designer [diagram]

This map helps explain what a web designer does. I don't know where this image came from.


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Energy Distribution Visualization

This is a chart from the Lawrence Livermore National Labs that shows the sources of energy that we start with traces the paths to its consumption. One of the observations this chart gives us is that more than half the energy that is produced is lost in transmission and distribution to the factories, vehicles, and homes. The insight that follows is that saving one unit of energy at the point of consumption results in two units being saved at the point of production. [via Technology Factors]