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Processing programming software

"Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain."
Processing is a complex data visualization device that converts code to visuals. This can become incredibly complex as seen in some of the work below. Interactivity can also be used with the visuals reacting to movement etc.


Mæve installation @ Venice Biennale 2008 from Maeve installation on Vimeo.





Roots Multi Touch Tangible Installation Teaser from BricK Table on Vimeo.



Roots demo 2 from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

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NEWS KNITTER

What is News Knitter?

News Knitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data.



The production of knitted garments is a highly complex process which involves computer support at various steps starting with the designs of both the fabric and the shape of garments until they are ready-to-wear. In recent years, technical innovations in machine knitting have especially focused on the patterning facilities. The patterns are designed by individuals generally depending on the current trends of fashion and the intended target markets and multiplied through mass production. News Knitter translates this individual design process into a world-wide collaboration by utilizing live data streams as a base for pattern generation. Due to the dynamic nature of live data streams, the system generates patterns with unpredictable visuality.



News Knitter converts information gathered from the daily political news into clothing. Live news feed from the Internet that is broadcasted within 24 hours or a particular period is analyzed, filtered and converted into a unique visual pattern for a knitted sweater. The system consists of two different types of software: whereas one receives the content from live feeds the other converts it into visual patterns, and a fully computerized flat knitting machine produces the final output. Each product, sweater of News Knitter is an evidence/result of a specific day or period.



The exhibition consists of ten unique sweaters that are produced as sample outputs of the News Knitter project. The patterns of the sweaters are generated by using online global news of a particular day or local Turkish news of a particular time period.

BRIEF:COLLECTIONS/IDN/volume 15 number 4/infographics issue

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"A lot of designers regard the practice of infographics as dull and boring — but this is almost certainly because they've never tried it. The 10 we spoke to, and whose work we've used to illustrate this feature, love what they do and believe it offers as big a challenge and as great a satisfaction as any other kind of design."

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Interview with jonathan harris( selected questions and answers)

IDn:Would you briefly describe the creative working process of one of your works?

Jh:"MY process is always the same .I start with a topic, a theme an idea i want to explore.then i find out a way to gather data about this topic (either from the web, from other people, or from my own personal experience). Then i process, classify, analyse and store that data. Then i imagine an appropriate way to present that data (trying to make sure it's simple, universal and playful), working out my ideas on paper. I do almost all my design on paper. I only take to the computer at the last moment, to execute my ideas. There is invariably iteration in this process. Sometimes, i will throw out several months worth of work if i get a better idea. You have to be true to the idea"


interview with peter Crnokrak

IDn:YOu said that you "you do not present solutions;instead you pose solutions;instead you pose questions". can you expand on that a little?

"Information graphics' primary purpose is to inform. In many cases, the goal is to simplify complex data into understandable visual representations using symbols that can be universally interpreted. But in the process of informing, one's interest in the presentation must be piqued - this can be done strictly through visual means(what forms are chosen and what are not), but it can be done through structuring of the data in a careful manner that leads one to explore. Exploration is best facilitated by encouraging or even forcing the viewer to ask questions: why this versus that? This is what i mean by 'pose questions' - sometimes the most effective design is one that is not direct or simple as much approaches can be so bland that they are dismissed by the viewer entirely"

BRIEF:collection/edward tufte/visualising information