Plustien's Weblog

You Are Here tracks and displays the paths of visitors traveling through a large public space. The system displays the aggregate paths of the last two hundred visitors along with blobs representing the people currently being tracked. When viewers approach the work, they can display the live video image with the paths of currently tracked visitors. Video and more here

Word Map Search Google

plustien — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:36:47 +0000

a world map illustrating the origin & content of the most popular search queries via Google, revealing the preferences & interests of the world population. the map is based on data from the Google Zeitgeist statistics of 30 different countries from April to June 2006.

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Word Map Of Users

plustien — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:32:49 +0000

cool audio/visual experience as a world map interface representing the geographical location & amount of users & views of the website, along with personal links & blogs of the visitors.

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City Consuming

plustien — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:24:59 +0000

“Our approach is to consider that uploading, tagging and disclosing the location of a photo can be interpreted as an act of communication rather than a pure implicit history of physical presence.”

set of geo-visualizations, based on the time, explicit location & people’s description of thousands of Flickr photos. by considering that uploading, tagging & disclosing the location of a photo can be interpreted as an act of communication, rather than a pure implicit history of physical presence, the resulting maps reveal patterns of tourists & citizens consuming a city. for instance, the flow of people between city attractions, the monuments areas of influence or what is happening with day/night & working/weekend periodicity.

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Half Life Deathmap

plustien — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:16:49 +0000

a collection of data graphs & heatmaps of the game Half-Life 2. the Half-Life game includes a reporting mechanism which reports back details about how people are playing the game. this data is collected to detect emergent problems earlier & to create better game experiences.

the game statistics include Completion Time, Total Play Time, Highest Map Played & Average Number of Deaths. the “Death Map” heat maps illustrate the specific locations in the map where players were killed most often while playing the game.

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Movie Scene Movement Tool

plustien — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:13:08 +0000

Recreating Movement is a computer program for analysing film sequences and has been developed within a diploma thesis.

With the help of various filters and settings Recreating Movement makes it possible to extract single frames of any given film sequence and arranges them behind each other in a three-dimensional space. This creates a tube-like set of frames that “freezes” a particular time span in a film. By using the keyboard the viewer can browse through the sequence of frames, chose any kind of view of the sequence of frames and influence the displayed frames directly via a displayable menu bar.

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New york times infowall

plustien — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:07:52 +0000

a new permanent art installation in the lobby of the New York Times. artist Ben Rubin & UCLA professor/statistician Mark Hansen have created an installation of 560 small screens, mounted on 2 walls, which display information culled from the newspaper’s archives, live feeds, online search terms & web commentary. information is parsed & displayed by algorithms created by the artists, for example, filtering only sentences from quotations that start with “you” or “I.”