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mreid YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Australia	Visualisation of 19th Century Reading Data Jun 17th, 2008, 10:34am   Hi, I've recently used Processing to create a visualisation of reading data from the Australian Common Readers Project: http://conflate.net/inductio/wp-content/public/acrp/ A discussion of the data, techniques and links to the code can be found on my blog: http://conflate.net/inductio/2008/06/visualising-reading/

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: Visualisation of 19th Century Reading Data Reply #1 - Jun 17th, 2008, 3:29pm   cool; since you're not animating continuously, i recommend using noLoop() (and loop() to turn it back on when you need animation, or redraw() if it's just responding to mouse clicks w/o animation) so that when it's static it's not hogging cpu.

mreid YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Australia	Re: Visualisation of 19th Century Reading Data Reply #2 - Jun 17th, 2008, 11:29pm   Thanks for the tip! As it stands it is a bit of a CPU hog since it is iterating through and drawing circles for each of 700+ books.