Hello,

I am part of a research group at Northwestern University investigating human travel behavior, transportation networks and their impact on the spread of diseases. Recently, I and my colleague Daniel Grady produced a video that explains one of our group's projects, finding effective boundaries in the US by looking at the movements of dollar bills:

http://rocs.northwestern.edu/clips/?assets/Follow_the_Money_SD.mp4
(the video has an audio track)

All video footage was generated from scratch by Processing (dollar bills, the person icon, the website screenshot, and the masks for highlighting different boundaries at the end are image files, though). We built on experience gained from producing a simpler video six months ago, explaining another project:

http://rocs.northwestern.edu/clips/?assets/Tour_de_Sys.mp4

Both videos reused Processing code that I wrote to either double-check algorithms or visualize and interpret data and which we use in our everyday work. One example is a sketch that, in its first version, triggered the "Tour de Sys" project and is accessible online, a bit more polished (though looking back at it now I see room for aesthetic improvements...):

http://rocs.northwestern.edu/projects/spato/applet.html

During our work on this year's Influenza A(H1N1) outbreak, my colleague Vincent David extended a non-interactive sketch to produce an applet that visualizes simulation results (projections) of how H1N1 would spread through the United States:

http://rocs.northwestern.edu/swine_flu_data/

There are a few more things that are not online, but I hope these four are inspirational examples to other researchers for how one can use Processing to visualize complex data and communicate it to the general public. Although some effort went into these things, I found that Processing made it very easy to get started with simple sketches and gradually evolve them into very complex projects like the "Follow the Money" video.

Thanks to the initiators and developers for creating such a great platform.

Cheers,
 Christian

PS: Feedback, positive and critical, is of course very welcome.

Wow, wow, wow. This is awsome! Thanks a lot for sharing.