information aesthetics.Where form follows data.
a mechatronic data sculpture made up of 714 metal balls that translates a virtual design process into the space around it. seemingly weightless, the kinetic sculpture moves through a cycle of free abstractions and typical BMW vehicle forms.
watch a high-rez movie here or the YouTube version after the break.
[link: artcom.de|via engadget.com & bmwcca.org]
reminds me of:
. exploded & suspended F1 car
. wireframe Toyota car
. the source
. electric moons
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| Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design Klanten et al. |
Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information Manuel Lima |
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics Dona M. Wong |
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| Data Flow 2: Beautiful Visualization Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky |
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics Nathan Yau |
Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis Stephen Few |
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beautiful, if it wouldn't be for something as profane as a BMW car
The music on the YouTube video is killing me. Hope no one comes along and starts swinging all the balls getting them twisted up.
Yeah, it was better, silent.
wow, this was a beautifull video. While watching it i feel like i was playing with those bolls.
Wow, I am a graduate student in depth psychology. I was in the midst of studying object relations and came upon a description of emotion by Karen Horney(1951), which describes it as a "visual kinetic structure" so I went online to get a definition and instead I got a visual representation that is amazing. The quote I was following was written in her book "Neurosis and Human Growth," where she writes:
" It is evident that an emotion toward a thing, animal or person establishes some form of liaison between the object and the subject whom it affects. Emotion is a modification of the subject in regard to these objects. Joy, sorrow, fear, and anger are undoubtedly states belonging to the person who experiences them, but they are states with a characteristic type of connection with their cause, a connection which differs qualitatively according to the kind of emotion experienced.
If we look at the emotions form this point of view...they can be classed in the same group of phenomena as the visual kinetic structures." --Ibid., p.123
The image and representation shown on your site gave me the chills.