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mapnificent.net

Mapnificent shows you the area you can reach with public transport from any point in a given time. It is available for major cities in the US and world wide.

via mturber

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vvvv.js aims to bring the visual programming language VVVV to your web browser.

VVVV.js is a Javascript port of VVVV's "runtime parts", which enables your web browser to run VVVV files (or VVVV XML Code) on the client side.

via createdigitalmotion

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The 1k Project II

See 1000 cars jumping together as one big swarm in trackmania (race game). Nice visualization of the "space of possibility" in this game. Via lecture of Eric Rodenbeck at see#4 conference.

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D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.

or the next step in the data visualization for the web libraries:

flare -> protovis -> d3.js 

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Solar Sinter Project

In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance.

In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.

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Paper.js

Paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting.

Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface.

Paper.js is based on and largely compatible with Scriptographer, a scripting environment for Adobe Illustrator with an active community of scripters and more than 10 years of development.

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The OECD Better Life Index [oecdbetterlifeindex.org] by Moritz Stefaner and Raureif visualizes some of the key factors that contribute to the notion of well-being in OECD countries. The accompanying interactive visualizations reveal how countries perform according to one of the available 11 topics that contribute for a better life, such as education, housing, the environment, and many more.

via infosthetics