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One of the most amazing things about America it’s the cultural mixing possible trough massive immigration throughout the years, and GOOD takes a look on some of those numbers. We then move on to meet the 100 largest libraries in the country, courtesy of Travel Insurance, and Fastco Design gives us an amazing 3-D Map of the highest mountains here, made by Chicago designer Jerome Daksiewicz. Leaving America behind, we close this selection with the top pickpocketing cities in the World – another infographic by Travel Insurance -, and with Sane Dentist‘s look at Dental Tourism.

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Transparency: The Size of the Rally to Restore Fear and/or Sanity

Transparency: Which Inmates Get Abused in Prison

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The Mozilla Metrics Team has just announced the “Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition”.  If you’ve used FireFox4 then you’ve no doubt seen the popups about the “Test Pilot” program.  On November 17th they’ll be releasing this data to the public, allowing you to visualize it as you please.

This competition is based on Mozilla’s own open data program, Test Pilot. Test Pliot is a user research platform that collecting structured user data through Firefox. All data is gathered through pre-defined Test Pilot studies which aim to explore how people use their web browser and the Internet.

Currently, over 1 million Firefox users from all over the world participate in Test Pilot studies. The goal for this platform is to encourage everyone from all skill levels to improve the Web experience by conducting and participating in these studies. Test Pilot study results are made available under open licenses, with the data being anonymized before release. (For more information about the Test Pilot data policy, please check Privacy Policy.)

The winners, selected by David Smith from Revolution Analytics and others, get a $300 Amazon Gift Card or a set of Edward Tufte’s Books.

via Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition – How Do People Use Firefox « Blog of Metrics.

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A combination of classic photoshop work and modern 3D rendering, CreativeDesign Magazine has a nice list of 100 beautiful images.

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Abstract Art always attracts the design lovers and just imagine If the abstract art and 3D art come together in a graphic design. Nothing can be more beautiful than A Abstract 3D art graphic. Today in this article I collected a huge list of beautiful 3D abstract art. Enjoy!

via 100 Spectacular Examples Of 3D Abstract Art.

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Some eagle-eyed forum posters noticed a new product crop up on the Apple Store the other day: The coveted Quadro 4000 for Mac.  For only $1,199.95 you got:

256 CUDA cores
2GB of high-speed memory
GPU accelerated professional applications DaVinci Resolve, Autodesk Smoke and Mathworks Matlab

1. Experience native Quadro professional 3D graphics performance when running Windows based applications using Boot Camp
2. Low-power, single-slot design allowing for up to two cards

Of course, it was an accidental posting on the site and is now removed.  You can follow the old (now broken) link here, but I’ve posted a picture of the details from Google’s Cache above.

Looks like it won’t be long before Apple fans can get some warm Fermi goodness in their CS5.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac H3314LL/A ….

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Onur Senturk won the 2010 Vimeo Awards for Best Motion Graphics with his video ‘Triangle’.  Over at Toolfarm, they interview him about some of the tools and ideas he uses in his work.

TF: What programs do you use? Do you use any third party plugins or additional software?

I use mainly 3dsmax also use C4d sometimes. I use AE for compositing. I think third party plug-ins what makes AE a more powerful tool and they fill the gaps. I use Optical Flares and Tinderbox plug-ins for AE. I use MAX2AE to catch missing interaction between 3dsmax and AE. I also use realflow for fluid dynamics.

TRI▲NGLE from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

via Toolfarm Inspirations: Inspirations: A Conversation With Onur Senturk, Winner of 2010 Vimeo Awards for Best Motion Graphics.

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Those of us in visualization sometimes forget the about of work that goes into the earlier steps in the process, the various computational aspects of why you would choose Tets over Hex’s or Prisms over Cubes.  Brush up on those details courtesy of the 27th European Workshop on Computational Geometry this March.

The event is an annual, informal workshop whose goal is to provide a forum for scientists to meet, present their work, interact and establish collaboration in the field of computational geometry. The workshop is designed to have friendly and informal atmosphere for both established and young researchers.

It’ll be March 28-30th in Morschach, Switzerland.

via 27th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, Morschach, Switzerland.

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Transparency: The Size of the Rally to Restore Fear and/or Sanity – Politics – GOOD.

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Matthew Perez has created a massive 115 page tutorial on surface modeling in SolidWorks over at the SolidSmack blog.

Matthew’s tutorial is for a JBL Duet Multimedia PC Speaker. He shows, top to bottom, the process of laying out planes, lofting surfaces as well as how to work with splines and boundary surfaces to create your very own skull pounding speaker model.

via Turn it Up. Free SolidWorks Complex Surfacing Speaker Tutorial – SolidSmack.com.

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Transparency: Which Inmates Get Abused in Prison – Health – GOOD.

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