Towards more expressive

visualization

Rhazes Spellrus1@duke.edu

9.16.05

Overview

IM2 introduction

IM2 recap

Processing introduction

Image and Meaninghttp://web.mit.edu/i-m

“The Image and Meaning events are part of the Envisioning Science Project in the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology. Our purpose is to help scientists, writers and visual communicators develop and

share improved methods of communicating scientific concepts and technical information

through images and visual representations linked to appropriate text. The goal is to enhance the

level of discourse within the scientific community, among teachers and those who communicate with

the public through the mass media.”

Image and Meaning

Image and Meaning 1 (2001)

Lecture based traditional conference

The IM2 (2005) Participatory Experiment

Break outs of 12 multi-disciplinary groups to explore effective means of visual communications

Participant disciplines:

animators, astrophysicists, architects, biologists, cartoonists, comp. sci., educators, magazine/newspaper editors, psychologists, writers

Recap

Print Media and Graphical Explanations

Importance of audience, duh?!?How important are aesthetics for “serious” science?

2D, 4D, nD: How Far Can We Go?

RecapThe Moving Image: Does simulation / animation help?

Experimental vs. Empirical Lane formation

Simulation - Polio

the model the simulation

Augmented RealityOne by one the penguins are stealing my sanity

Recap

Rethinking our Tools (Artists steal the show, or “Did you know that you could get paid to...”, or... )

Have you ever heard of a puzzlemaster?

Recap21st century proceedings http://www.laszlosystems.com

Recap“Computational Information Design”

Processing (http://processing.org)

simple IDE for writing and running graphics applications

Used by artists, designers, educators, students

Small learning curve, well documented, fun

API is a bastardization of Java, but you don’t need to know Java

Processing in action