VisualComplexity.com is a site for visualizing complex networks (though the actual entries seems to cover a lot more than just network visualization).
Leonardo Solaas’ Dreamlines is one of the more intriguing visualizations: the user enters a couple of keywords which it uses to pull pictures from Google Image Search. It then creates a slowly morphing visualization based on the images, without ever showing the images explicitly.
Attempting to build a clock that will run for 10000 years is a daunting task.
Never the less, that is exactly what the Long Now Foundation is trying to do.
The clock uses binary digital logic, but is mechanical. Time is stored as a 28-bit number where each bit is represented by a mechanical lever.
It is built using the following principles:
Digital Art Software showdown:
Processing is a Java-based environment for creating digital art. ProcessingBlogs often showcases examples of Processing creations. This Flock of birds demo and the Webcam controlled video pong are nice examples.
VVVV is a realtime video synthesis framework. It is a Windows only flowgraph based system, which seems to be built on top of DirectX and DirectShow. As seen on the Eno Henze image above, VVVV is also very suitable for creating static pictures.
For Mac OS X users, NodeBox looks very impressive (short summary: “NodeBox does less, prettier, in Python. Processing does more, uglier, in Java“) Their gallery page has lots of good examples.
