Bret Victor has an interesting contribution to the “Kill Math” project in the form of an iPad App that combines smooth user interface design with clever visuals for dynamic realtime visualization of systems of differential equations.
A user interface for exploring systems of differential equations. Every variable is shown as a plot; every parameter has a knob that can be adjusted in realtime. This ubiquitous visualization and in-context-manipulation helps the user develop a sense for how the parameters of the system influence its behavior.
Two new offerings from NVidia today, first the new Geforce GTX560 card. In a new video on YouTube you can see it running the new Duke Nukem Forever in 1080p Stereo. Looks like a nice little bump from their existing stuff, nothing revolutionary. See the video below.
Perhaps bigger news is the new Tesla M2090 card, boasting some impressive new computing figures for GPU compute in scientific spaces.
It’s said that Tesla M2090 GPUs coupled with four CPUs delivered record performance of 69 nanoseconds of simulation per day.The fastest AMBER performance recorded on a CPU-only supercomputer is 46 ns/day.
To put it a bit simpler, a simulation of 1 microsecond of time that took 22 days previously, now takes 14, a nice saving of a week.
Our health series continues today with an addiction that kills a person every 8 seconds: cigarette smoking. The Smokeless Cigarette Reviews and My Health News Daily compiled some dreadful stats about smoking in the U.S. in two separate infographics, while Graphic.is shows us the true dangers of passive smoking. GOOD explains why it’s so hard to quit, and, finally, perhaps the most shocking of today’s selection: Cigarette Companies statistics, made by Term Life Insurance.
Our selection for today begins with some facts about women and strokes, from Good, while Appature Inc. shows us the prescriptions most marketed to doctors in the United States. After that, a series published on Good about Polio – still a pandemic-size disease in many countries.
FCVW11 is over and they have a nice writeup of it over at the Feeding Edge. Of course one major part of the event was the IEEE Virtual Worlds standards group that is slowing forming, but more interesting is the many uses of virtual worlds and real-world cases. I particularly like this creative use of virtual worlds in education:
Dr Dede talked (and showed) some kids education environments that were around explore an eco system at a lake. On the surface it was a lake, trees and some overlays, but there were some innovative ideas that he helpfully referred to as “magic”. This magic is where you move from a straight simulation and help with pointers or tools that would not otherwise exist. The first was a submarine that scales you down to microscopic levels to explore the environment. The other was the ability to virtually geotag a single atom and then a HUD that tells you were it is over time as it is absorbed or moved around the environment. The “magic” layers can conflict with the “real” layers but are essential in the balance of immersive environment use. Otherwise there is little extra that the place give you.
At NAB, WASOL was demonstrating a new lens system called the ’3D Lensys’ which allows any traditional lens to be converted to a 3D lens. It’s a hefty lens at 21kg, but it’s a great simple way to add 3D to your existing equipment. Although, if it wasn’t for the fact that people saw it at NAB, the copy on their site reads like a phishing attempt.
As it is possible you to use all the functions such as auto/manual mode, zooming and focusing built in the camera. You can produce any kind of motion pictures and TV programs such as TV shows, sports events, live perfomance, etc, which require several cameras.
You don’t have to spend much time and energy on synchronizing two cameras mounted on a rig in order to converge right and left images, which is one of the biggest problems caused by two-camera-based 3D capturing system. This innovation technique have made us to have many patents in many countries and to be awardrd many technical.
Last week, our focus was on Education. Today, we’ll bring the first o series dedicated to health issues, starting with obesity, particularly in America, a serious problem that can be seen in The Hartman Group‘s infographic. As George Primentas, from The Missing Graph says, we are what we eat, and a huge part of our diet has been based on meat, something that The New York Times‘ graph shows pretty well. Designer Durga Prasad helps us knowing our nutrients, and the folks at Muscle Tech give some tips on how to choose the right protein source.
Robert Kosara has updated EagerEyes with a nice list of 6 visualization blogs everyone should check out. Fell in Love with data is in the list, as well as xkcd.
I don’t have to link to infosthetics or flowingdata, you know those. But there are many others that are not as well known, but often contain really interesting work. They offer thoughtful criticism, discussions of the cognitive aspects of visualization, or designers’ perspectives on visualization. Here is a list of six of them.
I’ve really loved the theory behind Lucid’s Virtu technology, a hybrid multi-GPU system that allows you to use AMD and NVidia GPU’s at the same time. BenchmarkReviews takes the new ASUS P8Z68-V Pro board out for a spin with the new Lucid Virtu stuff, and finds it promising but complicated.
Virtu’s i-Mode supports only a single, single-GPU graphics card, while d-Mode supports multi-GPU graphics cards as well as CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI configurations. Lucid claims the Virtu technology will work equally well with video cards from NVIDIA or AMD. NVIDIA’s forthcoming Synergy technology, which ASUS will supply via an update to P8Z68 motherboard owners, will only work with NVIDIA graphics cards.
Toward the end, they talk about the many complexities of the system. It sounds like it still has lots of problems, requiring reboots and such to get some features to work between the two card. Hopefully they can keep developing it and get a better version out soon.
To close this week’s Daily Viz from Visual Loop, specially dedicated to education, we take a look at the teachers worth around the World, provided by Master Degree Online. Also growing in importance, the Data Scientist has its role analyzes by Silicon Angle, and, from Voxy, comes the Chomsky School of Language and the mechanics of language. Finally, an overview about Multitasking, and its consequences, brought by Rasmussen College.
Bret Victor has an interesting contribution to the “Kill Math” project in the form of an iPad App that combines smooth user interface design with clever visuals for dynamic realtime visualization of systems of differential equations.
Two new offerings from NVidia today, first the new 
Our health series continues today with an addiction that kills a person every 8 seconds: cigarette smoking. 
Our selection for today begins with some facts about women and strokes, from 
FCVW11 is over and they have a nice writeup of it over at the Feeding Edge. Of course one major part of the event was the IEEE Virtual Worlds standards group that is slowing forming, but more interesting is the many uses of virtual worlds and real-world cases. I particularly like this creative use of virtual worlds in education:
At NAB, WASOL was demonstrating a new lens system called the ’3D Lensys’ which allows any traditional lens to be converted to a 3D lens. It’s a hefty lens at 21kg, but it’s a great simple way to add 3D to your existing equipment. Although, if it wasn’t for the fact that people saw it at NAB, the copy on their site reads like a phishing attempt.
Last week, our focus was on Education. Today, we’ll bring the first o series dedicated to health issues, starting with obesity, particularly in America, a serious problem that can be seen in 
I’ve really loved the theory behind Lucid’s Virtu technology, a hybrid multi-GPU system that allows you to use AMD and NVidia GPU’s at the same time. BenchmarkReviews takes the new ASUS P8Z68-V Pro board out for a spin with the new Lucid Virtu stuff, and finds it promising but complicated.
To close this week’s Daily Viz from Visual Loop, specially dedicated to education, we take a look at the teachers worth around the World, provided by 
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