Brian Cain

Motionographer had 2 interesting articles pointing to interesting ways to visualize data.  These link have come in handy while thinking of what sort of way to make an artistic visualization through generative art.  My source of data has been established.  I will use excel data from the United Nations so that it can easily be converted into a useful format.  It appears after some research that Processing is capable of reading data from a file which is separated with tabs.  How convenient that Excel exports tabular data.  The next step is to see what Processing is capable of offering in combination with what I’m capable of learning to produce a great piece within the next two weeks.

An RIT redesigned site has gone live today which I made a contribution to. The Academic Affairs website has a flash visual navigation system on the home page. Below you can see my contributions to the motion and feel of the interface.

Here’s what I started with:

More cursor dependent:

better scaling:

Added transparency, smoother animation if mouse movement is fast (exaggerated):

Final piece – preloader (for those not on Internet2 speeds), and the figures will all return to the default size regardless of how fast you move your mouse off of the SWF (unlike the previous examples):

The two week project for Jason is due on Wednesday. Mine is almost finished. If I have time, It would be nice figuring out how to let people click and drag the photos around, but only within the board area.

also, an important feature that there wont be implemented because of time is a resizing feature. People shouldn’t have to resize their photos to fit the right size. its way too much work and and if someone uploads an image that is the wrong size, it detracts from the experience for others (because the image doesn’t fit inside of the poloroid).

The working version has been taken down for security reasons.