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Nokia PUSH: Sketch-your-world summing up

Since the last post a lot of work has been done.

On the 4th of February all the teams will be together in London to present the results and party! =D

If you want to have more details, you can access our site on Nokia PUSH official blog:

http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/category/sketch-your-world/

Below you can see some videos about the project:

M.O.N.E.R.A. beta

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M.O.N.E.R.A. is a new way to visualize Twitter information using an organic metaphor: each tweet is represented by a bacteria inside an ecosystem and each species represents a topic. New information is acquired dynamically by Twitter API which makes the environment live and unpredictable.

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The project was developed as part of the Information Visualization class lectured by Prof. Gudrun Klinker, TU München [1]. It was built upon the ideas of Carolin Horn and Florian Jenett in the project Anymails [2] (www.carohorn.de/anymails) and Ben Fry in the work Organic Information Design [3]. The illustrations of the creatures come from the book Kunstformen der Natur by Ernst Haeckel, about which I posted a month ago. The project was programmed using Processing [4] and it is using twitter4j to access Twitter API [5]. The engine is based on Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman [6].

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You can see the version it will be presented on the show room “ITüpferl” from Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik at TU München here:

http://www.filipecalegario.com/monera_itupferl

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Or you can see the version on OpenProcessing site:

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=6261

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References:

[1] Information Visualization SS2009 - campar.in.tum.de/Chair/TeachingSs09InfoVis

[2] Anymails - www.carohorn.de/anymails

[3] Organic Information Design - benfry.com/organic

[4] Processing - processing.org

[5] Twitter4J - yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j

[6] Nature of Code - shiffman.net/teaching/nature

Practical Course – Augmented Reality Applications

A few weeks ago, the Winter Semester 2009/2010 at Technische Universität München started and the hard work began again! I’m attending the Practical Course of Augmented Reality Applications and the challenge is to develop a game using Lego Mindstorm NXT and Augmented Reality.

Tomorrow will be the first presentation where we will present the inital idea of the game. There is no many details yet, but you can have a look and get some draft ideas. You can take a look…

Nokia PUSH: Great news!

Yesterday we had great news: our Nokia PUSH project ‘Sketch Your World’ was selected to be implemented!

Here is the project video:

And here is the PDF.

Now we have to work hard to give life to this beautiful idea! (OH MY GOD!) =D

More information: Nokia PUSH Official blog, Jeez post.

Nokia PUSH

We didn’t win, WE WON (http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/index.php/2009/11/09/if-we-could-draw-your-attention-for-a-moment/)!  but we tried hard. That’s the point with everything. =D

More details: jeez’s post and Nokia PUSH official blog.

Kunstformen der Natur – Ernst Haeckel

I while ago I read in a

what was defined by Manuel Lima [http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?author=1] as “outstanding work of nineteen century German biologist Ernst Haeckel”. I got quite interested, primo because I find it very attracting the art that exits behind the nature forms, secondo it is quite nice to see works from the past.

Seurat vai à Rússia… [http://jeraman.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/seurat-vai-a-russia/]

where jeraman got inspired by a color photography of the beginning of 20th century by Prokudin-Gorskii

Kunstformen der Natur

I while ago I read two posts [subblue's post] [visualcomplexity's post]  discussing an illustrated book of 1904 which was defined by Manuel Lima as “an outstanding work of nineteen century German biologist Ernst Haeckel”. The name of the book is …

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