vizworld-triangleNow that VizWorld.com has a few months and a few hundred articles online, I’ve noticed things looking a bit Schizophrenic at times.  After consulting with some friends, the guys at Infosthetics, and seeing general traffic patterns, I’ve reorganized the site into three main categories that I believe make up the 3 major focus areas of VizWorld.com:

  • Hardware – New video cards, new displays, new tracking systems or application accelerators, everything hardware related.
  • Science – Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization, visualization software (VisIt, ParaView, Ensight, Tecplot, etc), new algorithms and papers, and Scientific Conferences (like IEEE VAST)
  • Graphics – Visual FX, rendering, Autodesk’s Max & Maya, example animations, and graphics conferences like NAB & SIGGRAPH

Those three fundamental categories should cover it, and each one exports its own RSS feed for anyone interested.  There’s also a Website category which will be used to cover news about the website, and of course the master RSS feed will include everything. Reducing the number of categories will also mean more tags on articles.  A Tag cloud will be made visible shortly, and you can use the tags to find articles related to a single vendor, product, or technology more easily.

In the near future, I might also split the podcast into 2 (Science & Graphics) or maybe 3 individual podcasts, to offer more time to discuss items related to a single area. We’ve got plenty more in store, tho, so keep coming back to see what’s next!