Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: visualisation

31 bookmarks tagged “visualisation

Physical and tangible information visualization

hal.inria.fr/tel-00981521/
Visualizations in the most general sense of external, physical representations of information are older than the invention of writing. Generally, external representations promote external cognition and visual thinking, and humans developed a rich set of skills for crafting and exploring them. Computers immensely increased the amount of data we can collect and process as well as diversified the ways we can represent it visually. Computer-supported visualization systems, studied in the...

coaltrace: simulating genealogies using charged particles

bedford.io/projects/coaltrace/
This is a simulation of the basic demographic / genealogical process. Individuals are born and individuals die. This causes lineages to branch and to disappear, and causes the population to share a common ancestor at some time in the past. The coalescent provides a mathematical description of these patterns of ancestry.

absorptions: The sound of the dialup, pictured

windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html
If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?