06-07

Abdul's Blog

Saturday 10 February 2007

Real Time Maps?

A little jolt to the old memory cells and with the help of google I managed to find some stuff on real time mapping. I saw this stuff a while back but forgot about it. So I looked it up as I thought it might be good to share. Cab Spotting is a live map of the taxis journeys in the bay area of San Francisco. Mobile landscape is a project by MIT, the project looked at ways to map, in real time, the use of mobile phones. I thought that the links might be good to look at as they have nice visualisation derived from data analysed captured as it happens.

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Monday 05 February 2007

Any Ideas?

A while back Steven Johnson produced a best seller where he suggests that sharing information makes us more intelligent. So here I am contributing to the shared, links, thoughts, perceptions, images etc from the contributors of this blog.

I thought that it was interesting both Charles Walker (Advanced Geometry Unit, Arups) and John Jordan (Reclaim the Streets) point to the notion of serendipity as a way to generate ideas. I guess in the real world it’s called serendipity and in education it’s called research. Either way the journey is a fascinating one for me and so many thanks to those people who are marking the route.

The Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis is a real find for me. There is lots of information there on research projects and research activity that the centre is engaged in. I am going to have a go at creating one of the immersive panoramas, it is a cool tool.

I couldn’t stay for all of Ben Croxford’s seminar so some of you might have already seen this and if you haven’t check it out 3D Map of London Air Pollution.

Posted by Weblog for Abdul at 01h54

Tuesday 30 January 2007

Useful links

I have listed some links I thought would be useful to people, please feel free to contribute:

Generative Forms

• http://www.theverymany.net/

and this seems to be a good place for the world according to processing:

• http://www.generatorx.no/

Physical Computing

• http://plw.media.mit.edu/
• http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/ (Good tutorials and reports)

The aesthetics and computation group at MIT

• http://acg.media.mit.edu/

Sketch book of processing examples

• http://builtwithprocessing.org/

Some good links from Przemek's site

• http://www.jawordesign.com/

You have to check this out, (The Secret life of Machines) it was a TV series I was glued too,Tim Hunkin had a shop in Covent Garden that makes mechanical toys (it's still there)

• http://sciencezero.4hv.org/tslom.htm

Addition from Alex, so here's the link to a nice flash+processing site

• http://yugop.com/

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