Creative Code 2

Todays lesson was an introduction to Creative Code 2.

For the next few weeks we will be studying data visualization. Therefore to start off, what is data visualization?

Data Visualization

“Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.” (www.smashingmagazine.com)

RESEARCH

Wooden Brain - Neil Fraser

The Wooden 3D Brain is created by 60 one-inch cubes, printed 9 selected cross-sections and their mirror images via MRI scans, sliced the prints into 266 squares and basically glued them to the correct internal faces.

The image shown above is the the fully assembled wooden block.

When moving the first row, it reveals one of two sagittal planes; basically revealing the left side of the brain/head as shown below.

When moving the horizontal axis, coronal planes are revealed; basically revealing the front of the brain/head as shown below.

Not only that, but you can also remove the top two layers of wooden blocks to reveal the other transverse planes as show below.

This next picture really interests me, because you can also remove individual blocks to see what is inside the brain, which is really amazing! :D

And lastly, because it is a 3D model made out of 60 cubes, you can also have fun to reassemble them. Although it would be pretty tough, unless your an expect, then it would take about 20minutes to solve.

Source: http://neil.fraser.name/news
Check this out for more information about the Wooden Brain.

Sewing Machine - Sounds.Butter

Sounds.Butter is an interactive design.

The sewing machine is electronically enhanced, and able to represent sound through the height of the stitches it creates. The resulting stitch pattern thus becomes visually similiar to an equalizer timeline. Unfortunately, currently a non-working prototype only.

As you can see from the picture above that it looks pretty cool, shame is a prototype.

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