A fun collection of infographics from CreativeCloud answers the question “What if you printed the internet?” and comes up with some interesting numbers like:
And more..
At the Saint Paul College in Minnesota, Warren Sheaffer has created a collection of classes and programs to build degrees based on web2.0 services and Second Life.
Through the center, the college is offering two new two-year degree programs. The Metaverse Application Design program provides training in graphic design, animation and art for the 3-D realm. The other program, Metaverse Application Development, is based on the college’s computer science curriculum and features courses in 3–D computer graphics and Java programming, among others.
It’s an interesting use of thin-client systems for education, but I really have to wonder if programs like this really create any value: A degree that’s entirely based on the tools of a virtual reality where the rules could change at a moment’s notice, rather than on the foundation technologies, languages, and algorithms that transcend the tool.
via Web 2.0: Sheaffer helps students brace for their Second Lives – Finance and Commerce.
GOOD is hosting a contest to see who can come up with the most creative and effective infographic showing the startling quantity of compensation to some of the world’s highest paid CEO’s.
Create an infographic that explores how much corporate officers in this country are paid. The infographic could compare such data with related figures, like a company’s profits, stock price, or the average salary of lower-level workers, or something else altogether. The winning entry will be the one that paints CEO salaries in the most interesting light.
via Project: Create an Infographic about CEO Compensation | GOOD.
In a recent article in BusinessWeek, Maria Popova discusses the work of Aaron Koblin and how data visualization is becoming a more prominent part of the business strategies of several companies. Stephen Few took a look at it are saw that while it’s a well-intentioned article, there are several problem with it and sets out to correct them in his blog.
“Has nothing to do with pie charts and bar graphs”? I would gladly support any effort to dismiss pie charts (with a few exceptions), but the notion that bar graphs and other traditional displays of quantitative data have nothing to do with data visualization is just plain silly. No one who understands data visualization and has done any work in the field would make such a statement, nor would they go on to say that unlike quantitative graphs, “data visualization…is an interpretation, a different way to look at and think about data that often exposes complex pattern or correlations.”
It’s a well thought-out piece with several key points. Plus, it’s signed.
via Visual Business Intelligence – Data Visualization: Keeping the Story Straight.
If you’re one of the lucky few people in the world running SilverLight on your machine then you can head on over to Bing.com and check our their new “Visual Search” feature. Restricted to only a few queries, it replaces the classical list of links with an interactive visual display.
While Visual Search might look like a gimmick at first (and it definitely is an interesting visual feature), it actually turns out to be a very usual feature for most of the searches that currently support it. The range of searches that allow you to visualize the results is still somewhat limited, though Microsoft will surely add on to this list over time. If anything, this is yet another feature in Bing that Google doesn’t offer yet.
The guys at SuperComputing have published a list of the tutorials that will be underway on November 15th and 16th, and there’s a few Visualization tutorials you may want to check out if you’re in the Portland, OR area.
There’s also the usual MPI, Debugging, parallel computing, and high-performance tutorials as well. Hit their website for the full list.
Are you ready for VisWeek 2009? The premiere conference for scientific visualization is a mere 31 days away, but there’s still time to register!
IEEE VisWeek 2009 is the premier forum for visualization advances in science and engineering for academia, government, and industry. This event brings together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in techniques, tools, and technology. Visualization has become an integral part in a wide array of application areas, and papers are solicited both for original visualization research and for the application of visualization towards the understanding of domain-specific data.
Have you registered yet? I have. Who wants to meet up?
Doug Purvur worked on the collaborative film project Psst!3 and found himself with an idea and material capable of supporting a full short-film piece. Using his expersie in CINEMA4D and After Effects, he built the surreal “Omar and his Skyhook”, which was included in last month’s LA Shorts Film Festival. He sits down with Meleah Maynard of CGSociety to discuss it.
The most challenging fish to make was the one Omar turns into at the end of the film, Purver says, because he started with a very basic model and added a lot of small details to connect the fish to Omar and the feathers on his helmet. “I used C4D’s Hair module to add very thin hairs streaming from the tips of the fish’s wings and coming from under his chin and around his wings where they meet his head,” he explains.
Just wanted to remind all of you out there that if you have any SGI Swag that you don’t see already included in our collection of SGI Swag, then send it in. I’ve added a new page at the end for User Contributions where you’ll see all the new stuff collected.
Jorge Suarez has a new making-of up on CGArena done entirely in Lightwave 9.6.
La espera was created entirely in Lightwave. At first we used the 9.3 version which had already incorporated significant advances in fast skin y global light, then look at version 9.6 I could see that the improvements were even more notable, therefore rendering was done in this latest version. In the following pictures you can see the modeling process.
via Making of La Espera.
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