A while ago we took a look at an effort to visualize the relationships and patterns of influence that emerged between authors. Earlier this year, Anonymous Prof created a 3D model of the interconnections that appear in the history of classical music. Beginning with medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen and running through the present, the basic network (shown above) depicts 444 composers as spheres within a web of colored lines showing direct influence. Larger spheres reflect a greater number of artistic disciples, while the shift from red to blue lines denotes movement across time to more recent artists. Moving beyond the basic visualization, the data reveal the lasting significance of earlier composers when indirect influences are diagrammed, ...
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chip chop shops
Hiroshi pointed me to this BusinessWeek investigation on microchip counterfeiting, which explains how electronic waste recycling is profitable: used circuit boards are baked over coal fires ...
Keeping Property Consumers Informed
A recent BBC news story detailed plans in England and Wales requiring landlords in Wales and England to give tenants summaries of the energy efficiency and carbon emissions of ...
light pipes
material extinction
Earth’s Natural Wealth: an Audit explores the depletion of exotic materials necessary for manufacturing high-tech products through a series of intense infographics. The lesson is that some of ...
Roofscape
Opening on 27 September 2008, the new home of San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences will stand as the largest green public installation on earth. While every phase of ...
binary weather report
Last year Ambient released an umbrella with a handle that glows if you should take it with you - a lot of electronics for a disposable water ...
cocoon chair
Team Shine Shine Shine’s Lin Yi-Hsien and Margaret Huang made this privacy couch called ‘hide’ from multi-colored felt, and when you’re ready to come out of your ...
“Nature Becomes Joyride”
The works of Finnish artist and photographer Ilkka Halso focus on the role of humanity in nature, offering interpretations that explore the dialogic relationship between technology and the environment ...
VOTE
Roger and Me may have been soft. And Bowling for Columbine was harsh to Canadians. But Fahrenheitt 911 was poignant. And Sicko made me cry. You ...
how things aren’t made
Transparency in manufacturing is fascinating - being able to peer inside the LEGO factory or watching how TCHO chocolate is made really gives you a feel for ...
virtual vandalism
Last month I saw Nokia champion Jurgen Scheible present Mobispray at Nightmarket 2008. He uses a cell phone to paint graffiti on anything through a multimedia ...
A Taxonomy of Words
Tag clouds, frequency histograms, and web-like artistic genealogies have helped scholars explore literature on a visual level, teasing out themes and connections and revealing new tones in classic works. Stefanie ...