Posted by walterra — February 05, 2007 — http://www.rhizomenavigation.net – For an upcoming documentary by Benedikt Bjarnason, RhNav – Rhizome Navigation was used to create animated visualizations of large genealogy data sets…
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I used Rhizome Navigation which is a library for Processing which is an IDE for computational information design.Both videos use a physics-based algorithm.I’ll post about the curves later.
That looks fantastic. What technologies have you used (for the rendering and the layout)? Also is the previous video a force directed approach as well? Are the curves in the lines that denote relationships purely decorative or are they representative of something?
Very awesome video!
This is very exiting. This kind of method is important for making our vast information stores human-centered.