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Author: Stanza
Institution: (unknown)
Year: 2004
URL: www.stanza.co.uk/sensity/

Project Description:
Sensity is part of “The Emergent City” series of works by Stanza. In this 3rd version of Sensity, Stanza aims at visualizing the dynamic data around his district as an audio visual artwork.

Sensity artworks are made from the data that is collected across the urban and environment infrastructure. A network of sensors, some fixed, and some embedded, collects data which is then published online. The sensors then interpret the micro-data of the interactive city. The output from the sensors displays the emotional state of the city online and the information will be used to create installations and sculptural artifacts.

These artworks made will represent the movement of people, pollution in the air, the vibrations and sounds of buildings, they are in effect emergent social sculptures visualizing the emotional state of the city. The sensor network can be moved from urban to rural setting and different types of visualization can be made depending on the environment. Sensity is an open social sculpture that informs the world and creates new meaningful experiences.

Münchner U-Bahn, ist eine Website mit diversen Informationen rund um das U-Bahn Netz aus München. Man findet einen Blog, Geschichtliches, Infos zu den einzelnen Linien und natürlich die http://www.muenchnerubahn.de/netz/karte/.

Die neue Google Maps Funktion “Meine Karten” (siehe auch oberes Bild) ist nur wenige Tage alt und schon erscheint die erste Website, die sich mit dem Sammeln und Kategorisieren der erstellten Karten beschäftigt. Jeder kann nach der Registrierung seine Google Maps Kreationen auf Ongopongo präsentieren und archivieren. Z.B.: Friday Night Skate, San Francisco - Map of the route for the weekly Friday Night Skate in San Francisco. Leaves from in front of the Ferry Building promptly at 9:00 p.m. every Friday, as long as it isn’t raining.

The following graphics were created by GPS Visualizer’s profile generator by Adam Schneider.

Biking uphill and back down in Santa Cruz, California (elevation profile, colored by speed)

Sailplane flight over Hungary (elevation profile, colored by elevation)

via: gpsvisualizer by Adam Schneider

Here’s the summit of Mount Hood, as rendered by Google Earth:

A custom-made image overlay containing an USGS aerial photo at close to its maximum resolution of 1 meter per pixel:

The same view with a USGS topographic map overlay:

In Google Earth, you can adjust the opacity of overlays. Here’s the topo map at about 20% and the aerial photo at about 60%:

GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you’ve been, plan where you’re going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, scientific observations, events, customers, real estate, geotagging, etc.). GPS Visualizer can draw maps in SVG, JPEG/PNG, and Google Maps format, and can create map overlays and KML files for Google Earth. You can also draw profiles (of elevation, speed, etc.) in SVG or PNG format.

Different visualisations by www.gpsvisualizer.com/examples: Read the rest of this entry »

via Sascha Pohflepp and WMMNA

Left: Early attempt at creating a communal arousal surface. The peaks represent arousal hotpoints. Right: Communal arousal surface with name annotations.

Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this project envisages new tools that allows people to selectively share and interpret their own biometric data. Read the rest of this entry »

Bestellt bei Lumitronix. Info-Link.

Bild vergrößern , vgl auch Blogeintrag vom 02.März 2007

Bildquelle: www.igd.fraunhofer.de

Augemented Reality - Beschreibung entnommen aus Wikipedia: Unter Erweiterte Realität (englisch augmented reality) versteht man die rechnergestützte Erweiterung der Realitätswahrnehmung durch virtuelle Überlagerung von Information in Echtzeit. Diese Information kann alle menschlichen Sinnesmodalitäten ansprechen. Häufig wird jedoch mit erweiterter Realität nur die visuelle Darstellung von Informationen gemeint. Zum Einsatz kommen Techniken der virtuellen Realität. Read the rest of this entry »

via: infosthetics.com

Bildquelle / A gCensus map of the population per block in Berkeley, CA.

A powerful web-based mapping & visualization tool based on Google Maps, capable of displaying all sorts of geographic data. gCensus is an effort to make geographic data freely and easily accessible to the public, without the need for expensive GIS software packages. users can freely pan, rotate, & zoom into & out of maps, change the ground angle or alter the transparency of different areas to satellite imagery. Read the rest of this entry »

Als OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) wird eine selbstleuchtende Displaytechnik bezeichnet. Unter elektrischer Spannung fungieren dabei dünne polymerische, also organische Halbleiterschichten als Lichtquelle. Anders als herkömmliche LED, die auf kristallinen Strukturen beruhen und als Punktlichtquellen wirken, sind OLED mehrlagige Flächenemitter und eignen sich zum Einsatz in Flachbildschirmen. Das Mehrlagensystem ruht auf einer transparenten Trägerfolie, worauf der wenige Atomlagen dünne elektrische Leiter aus Indium-Zinn-Oxid (ITO) aufgetragen wird. Zwischen dieser Anode und einer anschliessend aufgedampften Metallkathode kommen die Polymerschichten zu liegen. Die Kohlenstoff-Doppelbindung Polythiophen leuchtet rot, Polyfluoren blau und Polyphenylenvinylen grün. Prinzipiell wird zwischen Aktivmatrix-Displays mit Einzelbildpunkt-Ansteuerung und Passivmatrix-Displays mit langsameren Bildauffrischungsraten unterschieden. Passivmatrix-Displays werden bereits in Massenproduktion gefertigt und in Autoradios und Mobiltelefonen eingesetzt. OLED-Displays erlauben einen Blickwinkel von rund 180 Grad und weisen eine dünne, flexible Bauweise auf. Die selbstleuchtenden Eigenschaften der Polymere ermöglichen brillante Farben mit hoher Leuchtkraft und machen die stromfressende Hintergrundbeleuchtung konventioneller LCD-Monitore (Liquid Cristal Display) überflüssig.

via: www.engadget.com

The DriveMaster Pro from Japanese manufacturer Hino is one of those products that’s surely flying off the shelves, because who wouldn’t want to pay good money for a device that sits on your dashboard and constantly reminds you that your driving style is so very environmentally unfriendly. Although once again our best efforts at machine translation are thwarted by in-graphic text, it seems that the DM Pro ships with a number of different sensors that are able to detect your speed, acceleration / deceleration, idle time, gear ratio, and emissions; if any of these metrics indicate that you could be outside the range of government-suggested levels, the info-packed display lets out audible and visual alerts that hopefully won’t distract you enough to crash and kill a tree or something. No word on pricing, once again making it quite difficult for us foreigners to get our hands on the best Japanese gear.

Bildquelle: blogs.adobe.com

Adobe hat seine Icon-Architektur komplett überarbeitet und nutzt für seine CS3-Suite weitgehend typografische Entwürfe, berichtet John Nack im Adobe-Blog. via: timtakt

Islamic Tradition
In the Islamic tradition, colour is primarily seen from a metaphysical viewpoint which allows the duality of light and shadow to be recognised as the continuous possibility pervading the universe. The number seven dominates the traditional palette of colours, which are arranged in groups of three and four (picture below), with the two systems being linked. One order is based on the three colours black, white and sandlewood (related to the colour of the earth), while the other is centred on the four colours red, yellow green and blue.

Quelle: www.colorsystem.com; Read the rest of this entry »