an online interface that allows the browsing & skimming of magazines by a Google maps like interface. pictures, articles & spreads are charted as maps, with the well-known navigation controls on the left top hand side.
[link: zkimmer.com & ricricho.wordpress.com|thnkx tvsnob]
the stealth-like, information-rich dashboard design of the Lamborghini Reventón car.
next to an impressive car, does $1,000,000 buy you an effective visual design?
[link: about.com (higher rez pic)|via todayandtomorrow.net & swissmiss.typepad.com]
an amazing pop-up book with embedded smart, paper-based elements designed by Marion Bataille. each of the 26 dimensional letters move & change when turning the pages. for instance, the C turns into D, M stands at attention & X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist.
you can pre-order the book here
[via todayandtomorrow.net]
an IMAP-based email analysis project, which generates tables, graphs & visual distributions based on time of day, senders, recipients, mailing lists, & so on.
graphs include distribution of messages by year, month, day, day of week & time of day, distribution of messages by size & the top 40 largest messages, the top senders, recipients & mailing lists subscribed, distributions of senders, recipients & mailing lists over time, & the distribution of thread lengths.
[link: code.google.com & blog.persistent.info|via googlified.com|thnkx jeffchin]
see also Google visualization API & Google chart API.
a new scientific mind-reading technique that is able to to accurately predict images being viewed by people, using quite advanced brain activity scanners (fMRI).
"the study raises the possibility in future of the technology being harnessed to visualize scenes from a person's dreams or memory... to reconstruct a picture of a person's visual experience from measurements of brain activity alone. imagine a general brain-reading device that could reconstruct a picture of a person's visual experience at any moment in time".
first, custom-made software analyzes a subject's visual cortex while they view 1000s of images over 5 hours, to learn how that person's brain codes visual information. then, the decoder is able to predict the brain activity it would expect if the subject is viewing a new set of images.
sounds like a great tool to research how people "visualize" abstract concepts?
[link: guardian.co.uk]
2 maps that visually compare the Apollo 11 mission landing site in relation to the size of a soccer field & a baseball field diamond.
[link: history.nasa.gov (GIF image of superimposed soccer map) & history.nasa.gov (GIF image of superimposed baseball diamond) & history.nasa.gov (homepage)|via strangemaps.wordpress.com]
see also Apollo moon landing transcript & Titan descent dashboard movie.
a A1-sized poster (originally created in 2003 for Motorola’s 75th anniversary) containing all 31,260 words from the Apollo moon landing transcript. from a distance the poster looks simply like a rich, silver texture, a glossy panel of light, drawing the viewer to it.
reminds of Ben Fry's single chromosome poster.
[fibredesign.co.uk & fibredesign.co.uk(pdf)]
an interactive network visualization of one's social network on facebook, which highlights commonalities between common friends.
this tool exists already since quite a while, but an anonymized demo can now be explored for those (few) without a Facebook account.
did anyone find any striking patterns in their social network?
[link: ludios.net]
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