GMU:Things that organize themselves/spatialize data: Difference between revisions

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Idea

My first thoughts on creating an interactive visualization of the German law system have been doomed to fail: the government sold the digital information about the development of law and the verdicts interpreting it to private companies. The only possibility to study this data is by reading it by hand.

Therefore I changed my plan. Instead of taking a big topic and creating a big data object out of it, I am thinking about creating a couple of smaller interactive sketches to different topics dealing with complexity and self organization. Possible topics: wind & weather data, oceanic data, astronomical data, data about human behavior (garbage, carbon-dioxide etc.).

As a final result i would like to have a room with some displays showing those animated sketches together with an object spatializing this data.

For the spatializing I thought about an object which translates a one-dimensional data stream into a complex three-dimensional structure.

My first attempt for this would be the following:

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-==Spatialize data==
+== Idea ==
-I want to create an interactive and spatial experience, where the visitor comes into contact with abstract data.
+My first thoughts on creating an interactive visualization of the German law system have been doomed to fail: the government sold the digital information about the development of law and the verdicts interpreting it to private companies. The only possibility to study this data is by reading it by hand.
-To find new ways of representing data I chose five working paradigms:
+Therefore I changed my plan. Instead of taking a big topic and creating a big data object out of it, I am thinking about creating a couple of smaller interactive sketches to different topics dealing with complexity and self organization. Possible topics: wind & weather data, oceanic data, astronomical data, data about human behavior (garbage, carbon-dioxide etc.).
-* no classical display or projection technologies (beamer etc.)
+As a final result i would like to have a room with some displays showing those animated sketches together with an object spatializing this data.
-* spatial extension
-* dynamically animated
-* reactive to the visitor
-* organic in its design
-My first thoughts how such an object could be realized have been about the material. At the moment I have two ideas:
+For the spatializing I thought about an object which translates a one-dimensional data stream into a complex three-dimensional structure.
-=== Hoses ===
+My first attempt for this would be the following:
-Take thin plastic hoses (the ones you use for water cooling), two Arduino controlled pumps, two reflux valves, an hose adapter and inked water.
+[[File:Data_spatializer_01.png|center|thumbnail|500px]]
-Both pumps are connected to a reflux valve and afterwards joined together to one hose via the adapter. The pumps are controlled with the Arduino. The first pump sucks the inked water, the second one sucks air. Now by turning the pumps on in an alternating way, a one dimensional pattern will be created in the hose and move throughout it. If the hose is long enough you can wrap and coil it up or create a grid display out of it.
-The overlay of the current information stream and the one being longer in the hose forms a complex dynamic pattern.
-[[File:Flux.png]]
+== Inspiring Work ==
-* Balloons
+* [http://vimeo.com/77330591 video demonstrating the beauty of mathematics]
+* [http://hint.fm/wind/ wind: interactive visualization of the current wind in the USA]
-Take a mechanic balloon pump, a couple of transparent balloons, an Arduino, some pipes/hoses and some Arduino controlled valves.
+* [http://driven-by-data.net/about/global-digital-divide/#/0 the digital divide: mapping internet & population alltogether]
-The balloons are arranged in a grid. Their input is connected to a pipe. The pipes pass two valves and are connected to the ballon pump in the end. If the Arduino triggers the first valve the balloon get blown up a bit, if it triggers the second one the balloon loses air.
+* [http://www.nand.io/visualisation/emoto-installation emoto: data installation showing the emotions of the olympics london 2012]
+*[http://notabilia.net the 100 longest article for deletion discussions on wikipedia]
-In this way quantities can be visualized by volume.