{E}vermotion has released a great collection of 64 lowpoly 3D Buildings complete with textures. They have free samples of some of it, and the complete package is sold for 120 Euro (Approximate $150 US Dollars).
{E}vermotion – 3D models, textures, tutorials, architecture, 3D graphic, vray, 3ds max.
The 6th annual “VizSec” conference will be in Atlantic City, New Jersey this year, co-located with the IEEE InfoViz/Viz/VAST conference(s). That conference just gets bigger every year.
The 6th International Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners in information visualization and security to address the specific needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization techniques. Co-located this year with IEEE InfoVis/Vis/VAST, VizSec will continue to provide opportunities for the two communities to collaborate and share insights into providing solutions for security needs through visualization approaches. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE and archived in the IEEE Digital Library. The authors of the best papers will be invited to extend and revise their paper for journal publication in a special issue of Information Visualization.
via VizSec 2009 Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security.
Mississippi State University’s Geosystems Research Institute is developing a tool called “VERTEX” to allow 3d immersion in Weather simulations for training & forecasting.
Institute deputy director Robert Moorhead, an endowed professor in the Bagley College of Engineering, said the ability to examine time-varying data in 3-D enables scientists to spot storm patterns that otherwise might be difficult to discern from a single computer screen image.
“It’s like those pictures from your recent vacation that just don’t seem to excite others like you were excited when you were there,” Moorhead said, with a smile. With VERTEX, researchers can enter “an immersive environment where the experience is more realistic.”
via Starkville Daily News – MSU uses technology to examine hurricanes.
GOOD Magazine has an interesting infographic on subway usage around the world. The infographic shows the usage of the 5 busiest subways in the US compared to several around the world, showing both average Daily Riders (in people silhouettes) and track length (as length of subway cars).
Vunky Search is a search engine dedicated to PhotoShop tutorials. Showing an example for each tutorial, it’s a great way to learn new Photoshop tricks.
Over at “Grid/plane” they’ve got
some interesting graphs of a flash-based interactive data visualization tool they developed in tandem with Google analytics to see the effects and relationships of blogs and social media.
I collaborated with Instrument to develop a series of data visualization concepts for Google. These interface sketches are are all based around a concept of aggregating and visualizing online media buzz across various social media outlets.
via Gridplane.
Over at the “Life at HOK”, they’ve got an interesting chart of the size of the Stimulus package in physical terms.
We all know that $780 billion dollars is a LOT of money….but how much is it in architectural terms? Check out this cool visualization sent to me by Ming Hu in the DC office (Hi Ming – thanks for the great visualization!) – haven’t verified the accuracy and don’t know where it originated, but it’s pretty interesting nonetheless:
At the end, he correlates the size of the stimulus to approximately the same size as the World Trade Center.
Information Aesthetics comes through again, this time finding a fantastic visualization of US Trade Surpplus & Deficit. From the author:
I did spend a fair amount of time working on a simple algorithm that represents the flow of cash as various weighted lines for each country (as shown in the top right legend.) Visually I believe you can get a rough at-a-glance view of how much cash is flowing from each country, while still having enough fidelity at the lower volumes to discern differences between those volumes, since in essence it is a log scale in stroke weights.
US Trade Surplus and Deficit Visualized – information aesthetics.
The CCC (Computing Community Consortium) has an interesting article written by Ruzena Bajcsy (University of California, Berkeley) and Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinoise at Urbana-Champaign) advocating the further deployment of high-bandwidth information-rich immersive interfaces to support collaboration and research activities. What I find most interesting is that they propose to integrate it with a 4D Immersive holographic system.
D Immersive Holographic Spaces will be joint multi-view multimedia-rich spaces where people can immerse themselves in their physical full body size into a joint cyber-physical space with other people, and execute physical activities (e.g., physiotherapy rehabilitation), walk around people and observe detailed full-body social behaviors and communication cues of people in real-time, as if they were co-located in the same room, even though they are geographically distributed and thousands of miles apart.
MSI announced a new GTX260 card they’re released named the “N260GTX Lighting”, targeted to high-end users. The main announced feature is that it will ship with 1.8Gig of video memory, double the amount present on reference cards.
Unfortunately, there aren’t any technical details available at this time, aside from the fact that the upcoming card will be featuring an impressive 1792MB of GDDR3 memory, double the amount that is featured on reference cards. However, given the cooling potential of the double-slot, double-fan cooler of said card, MSI will likely be playing a bit with the its frequency levels, further enhancing its performance capabilities. If that is not the case, then users will be given the opportunity to tweak the card for themselves, with the help of the company’s bundled AirForce panel.
MSI to Bring Out the GTX260 with 1792MB of Memory – Double that of current offerings – Softpedia.
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