processing, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.

Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas (UCLA Design | Media Arts). Processing evolved from ideas explored in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Talking about maps and their use as a visual language,… more

JungleGym-mdv1, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

JungleGym-mdv is an experimental data visualization of online conversation, more specifically a bulletin board of an online community. it is the symbolic and non verbal expression that explores new way of visualization of human being interactivity and new interface of internet form.

2004 winner in Experimental at Flash™ Film Festival

thumb-social, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Social Circles intends to partially reveal the social networks that emerge in mailing lists. The idea was to visualize in near real-time the social hierarchies and the main subjects they address. When subscribing to a mailing you never know who the principals are, how many people are listening or what subjects they are talking about. It’s like entering a meeting room with plenty of people in the darkness and then having to learn who is who by just listening to their voices.
Social Circles does not pretend to be a statistical application, but rather aims to raise the lights in that room just enough to let you enhance your perception of what’s happening. At a glance it allows an easy way of grasping the whole situation by highlighting who is participating, who is “visually” central to that group, and displaying the topics everyone is talking about. How does the list structure itself? Is it moderated? Is it chaotic?