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Visual Sport has rolled out a set of interactive widget for monitoring the current craze, the 2010 World Cup. Allowing you to compare individual players from the past along with live interactive timelines of the current games, they’ve got a wealth of fascinating informaiton.
The match tracking interface contains 2 separate parts: the “Match Timeline” and “Match Commentary”, each focusing on displaying separate events (e.g. shoots, yellow/red cards, player exchanges) on an interactive timeline. The Player Comparison Tool looks more sophisticated: individual players can be benchmarked in a large variety of data attributes, ranging from their relative position on the field to an overall view of their performance in terms of presence, offense, gameplay, correctness and defense.
I’ve embedded the widget for the current South Africa/Mexico game below.
via VisualSport: Social Visualization of (Live) World Cup Football Statistics – information aesthetics.
Graphics, Science interactive, sports
Looks like the U.S. Army is buying into Virtual Worlds in a big way, with a request for information regarding a new virtual world to be used for Training.
The world is meant to be similar to a massively multiplayer online gaming environment like Second Life, supporting thousands of avatars and connections at once. The avatars will be equipped with artificial intelligence and will move and interact in a terrain similar to Earth, according to the ROI. It should allow for the administration of various training scenarios that users can react to in real time.
The world should simulate weather as it happens on Earth and allow people playing to have multiple views of their actions in it, including one that allows them to look at the terrain as they would through the scope of a weapon.
You can read the actual Request for Information at this site, but this is particularly interesting:
A 50 x 50 km terrain footprint with non-kinetic and kinetic operations within a complex and highly dynamic environment and complex data layering and data processing capabilities including: data collection, data analysis, robust data transmission and storage. The terrain should be generated by the ingestion of existing Department of Defense owned terrain databases such as Digital Terrain Elevation Data and will be rendered under various levels of detail based on realistic participant field of view and view distance.
50km square is larger than Second Life by a hefty 33%, and added to the required AI & crowd control simulations they want, would have to be powered by some pretty hefty supercomputing power.
Read the raw RFP via Google Docs.
via Army To Develop Virtual World For Training — Military Training — InformationWeek.
Science military, virtual worlds
Tiago Veloso, creator of Visual Loop, has a guest post over on Inspired Mag where he enumerates some of the best infographics and visualizations regarding the 2010 World Cup.
Being so important, it’s pretty natural you’ll find a lot of articles, comments, blog posts and, of course, data-visualization goodies on this matter. Infographics, editorial illustrations, interactive charts and maps, all of them deliver fun and interesting way of understanding and following this great event, so, today I leave you here with a (too long?) round-up of those awesome resources – and may the best team win!
via 2010 World Cup – The Ultimate Graphic and Data Resources Guide | Inspired Magazine.
Graphics infographics, list, sports
If you love CG imagery and virtual worlds, then you’re probably familiar with the KoiNUP Metaverse Graphics contests, where Virtual World artists take screenshots of some of the most beautiful imagery in worlds like Second Life. Now, they’ve brought these beautiful graphics to the iPHone.
“The goal of Metaverse Wallpapers” says Pierluigi Casolari, Koinup co-founder and CEO “is to promote all the amazing art, imagery and creativity of Second Life” “With Metaverse Wallpapers, it will be possible to experience such amazing creativity directly on your phone”
The app has not yet been approved, but you can still go ahead and browse their catalog of beautiful avatars and landscapes at their website.
Metaverse Wallpapers.
Graphics iphone, virtual worlds
Global navigation satellite systems
Oil Spill Timeline
Social Networks Spur the Demise of Email in the Workplace
A Visual History of the American Presidency
How to Hack A Computer – Hollywood Style
Star Trek “Space Seed” poster
Arabsat-5B (BADR-5) telecommunications satellite
FIFA World Cup 2010 Infographic
Graphics, Science digest, infographics, list
Not much to say here, but the “Daily Dead Birds” website parses the daily reports from the Fish & Wildlife agency and updates the graphic shown above with the sad toll the BP Gulf Oil Spill has had on the environment.
BP Oil Spill: Daily Dead Wildlife Tally.
Science oil
It has been more than 50 days since the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster started, and still BP has not managed to stop the flow of oil. Researchers at the University of South Florida have been running computer simulations to perform a hindcast and forecast the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Hindcasting is the running a computer simulation to see if the output of the model matches known results. By clicking on the link below, you can see their entire simulation.
The particles (difters) are shown as black dots, and their trajectries in magenta. Macondo well is designated by the red circle. Sea surface temperature (color contours, units in deg C) was superimposed with the surface current vectors to indicate the surface ocean circulation. The velocity data were subsampled every the third grid points in both east and north directions for better visulization.
via The Deepwater Horizon oil spill trajectory hindcast/forecast based on West Florida Shelf ROMS.
Science bp, oil, scientific visualization
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