Jared Tarbell uses various graphics-specific programming languages to generate beautiful renderings.
I write computer programs to create graphic images. With an algorithmic goal in mind, I manipulate the work by finely crafting the semantics of each program. Specific results are pursued, although occasionally surprising discoveries are made.
Spend some time at the Gallery of Computation
radicalcartography has some really cool maps to check out (found via Future Feeder).
Suicide rates for men and women across the US (map)
Mass Transit Systems in the US (PDF file)
US Territories and Military Installations (map)
And plenty more via the cumbersome menu at the top of the page. Dig around though, it’s worth it. Boston [...]
Future Feeder points to OpenStreetmap where a 3 day time-lapse video of courier data in London is available. I really like this sort of thing.
It could just be me, but I think this image of flight density during one week between international airports is fantastic.
The artwork is an interactive map of more than 33,000 words. Each word has been assigned a color based on the average color of images found by a search engine. The words are then grouped by meaning. The resulting patterns form an atlas of our lexicon.
Visit Colour Code.
I love maps. I love geographic information systems. I love visual presentations of data. Looooove.
These animations showing air traffic are gorgeous.
FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya and the final piece was highlighted at SIGGRAPH 2005 in the [...]
