Vivas Comunicação (The Live Communications) is a creative agency out of Curitiba, Brazil, that is always in search of the best creative strategy. Viewing their website, it is clear that creativity is certainly present. Utilizing HTML5 and CSS3, this website’s sleek and attractive atmosphere is able to function and transition beautifully between content. Specifically, the parallaxing compliment between background images and foreground content.

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The Max Planck Institute is one of Germany’s most successful research organizations, having produced about 17 Nobel laureates and 13,000 yearly academic publications since its foundation in 1948. The Max Planck Research Networks [max-planck-research-networks.net] visualization application in turn is showing off the institution’s international collaborations with other organizations in the world.

Developed by Moritz Stefaner and Christopher Warnow, the application runs on a semi-public multi-touch screen, which displays a network graph of the relationships between all relevant organizations, an accompanying world map, plus various bar graphs that reveal other facts and important statistics. The data is gathered from analyzing the co-authorship connections detected in the 94,000 publications that were produced over the last 10 years.

For the network graph, the relative size of an institute’s icon represents the number of scientific publications, and the width of the connecting lines reflects the number of jointly published papers between 2 separate institutes.

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This exhibit celebrates a new generation of visual pioneers—part graphic designers, part statisticians, part artists—who have a faculty for turning data into meaning, often with beauty and urgency unexpected from data.

In this exhibit, they turn their talents to help us see what we do when we log on. Strictly speaking, these are simply visual displays of quantitative information. But in their beauty, clarity, and urgency, these visualizations don’t just tell us about our world, on- and off-line; they tell us about ourselves, through and through.

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Quintetto is an installation based on the study of casual movement of objects or living creatures used as input for the production of sounds. The basic concept is to reveal what is calle “invisible concerts” of everyday life.


The vertical movements of the 5 fish in the acquariums is captured by a videocamera, that translates via computer software, their movements in digital sound signals. 
There are 5 different musical instruments creating a totally unexpected live concert. The installation was born with the collaboration of the Aesop studio
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BioDigital Human is an impressive 3D human body explorer with many interactive options and utilities to learn about your body. Tools for exploring, dissecting, and sharing custom views, combined with detailed medical descriptions provide a new visual format to patients, students and medical professionals. Check out the video below, especially for those with compatibility issues or slow connections.

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The 36-foot wall at the University of Dayton’s admission center engages prospective students and interactively reveals videos of student life at UD. The wall displays continuously changing patterns of generative graphics, which respond to the presence of people in front of the wall.

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The WebGL Globe uses an interactive 3D representation of the Earth to visualise geographic data like world population, latest earthquakes or search volume by language. Created by the Google Data Arts Team, the project is an open data visualisation platform for anyone to copy the code, add their own data and create their own globe. Globe visualisations get more interesting every day.

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Play a game which randomly generates a select number of objects which must be counted in the blink of an eye. Try to see if you can consistently guess the amount of objects each time, but be careful, the lower your percentage of correct guesses the more likely the game will end.

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Microsoft’s Research department is always coming up with cool new ways to interact with gadgets, and this newly released video of the “Holodesk” is definitely one of the cooler ones. It uses a Kinect (“hacked” doesn’t seem really correct when it’s a Microsoft project) to see your hands and face, and allows you to juggle completely virtual 3-D objects–balance a virtual ball on a book, then tip it into a bowl of water, or stack virtual 3-D blocks. It’s pretty amazing.

You can see in the video above what’s happening: the user is able to interact with virtual 3-D holographs just as if they were real. They’re slightly janky, but behave mostly as they would in real life, responding to gravity and force and other objects. The system got a major shot in the arm thanks to the Kinect. As it turns out, interacting with virtual objects is just as much about tracking your line of sight as about tracking your hands. Its accuracy is much more on-point thanks to our little $150 buddy, though you still have to look through the screen or glass plate to see the virtual objects.

A product of the Sensors and Devices Group at Microsoft Research, the Holodesk isn’t due for release or anything like that–but given its main sensor is a Kinect, we can see some pretty impressive similar projects popping up in the near future.

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Plink is a multiplayer music experience, click and move your mouse to create music together with up to three friends (or strangers). Plink is a Chrome experiment (HTML5/WebAudio API) and require Chrome 14.

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The spectacle and surplus masculinity of Hollywood is hardly run-of-the-mill source material for generative art, but Canadian software artist Jeremy Rotsztain has been diligently exploring transforming cinematic convention into rich, abstract compositions for three years now. Rotsztain’s Action Painting project (first featured on CAN in fall 2009) employs scenes and sound design—’data’ from action movies—as raw material to generate abstract expressionist style animations.

“Revving Motors, Spinning Wheels” (below) is one of four videos released by Rotsztain this summer that illustrate just how far this project has come – the piece reads as a love letter to both Jackson Pollock and Jason Bourne. On close viewing the source material (culled from Ronin, The French Connection, etc.) is clearly organized thematically and the video functions as a serial examination of the stock components of definitive chase scenes. Screeching brakes, blaring sirens, lead-footed acceleration and the inevitable Ballardian-endgame all filter through the mix in clusters of topical clips.

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