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Aphorist
Information Visualization Project Question
Mar 16th, 2010, 10:08am  
Hi,

I'm fairly new to Processing... just gotten my head around the basics. It's really interesting and I've decided to focus on Information / Data Visualization as my masters project. I really want to do a few pieces with Processing, but I'm not sure where to start.

For instance... what math would I need to know to create basic visualizations? I have Ben Fry's book. Is there any other resource I should be looking at? Any specific aspects of Processing I should be focusing on? Are there any online resources I can look at?

Cheers,
Tarun
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TfGuy44
Re: Information Visualization Project Question
Reply #1 - Mar 16th, 2010, 4:36pm  
It really depends on how complex your basic visualization is!

More or less basic than a spinning box

Quote:
float rotation=0;
void setup(){
  size(200,200,P3D);
  noStroke();
}
void draw(){
  background(0);
  lights();
  translate(100,100);
  rotateY(rotation);
  rotation=(rotation+0.05)%TWO_PI;
  box(90);
}



The best source for info around here is the Reference:
http://processing.org/reference/
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Chrisir
Re: Information Visualization Project Question
Reply #2 - Mar 17th, 2010, 5:44am  
Hello,

Your question is very broad...

What do you want to visualize

Web-traffic, temperature of your town...   Wink

See here
http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/machmit/processing/wiki/ctDownloadProcessing

It's in german, but see under "Netzradar"; there are downloads; you also need a physic-library.

You find the processig-code there.

For facebook-visualization:
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/num_1193799621.html

For 3D-Math-Graph visualization:
http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=7098
(better viewed when downloaded)

Good luck!

Chrisir   Wink
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