Information Aesthetics

Class 12 – Internet visualization

Bryan Chung — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:10:16 +0000

Final project draft presentation

Topics

Topology visualization

Flow visualization

Workshop

Obtain information from Internet for visualization

Reference

Akamai

Visual complexity

Class 11 – Instruction and narrative visualization

Bryan Chung — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:55:46 +0000

Presentation

Final project ideas presentation

Topics

Instruction design

Narrative visualization

Exercise

Buy one hygiene product from Watson, Manning or 7-11.

Read the direction of use (text) carefully.

Draw the instructions in one single piece of A4 paper.

Reference

Class 10 – Digital information visualization

Bryan Chung — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:05:57 +0000

Topic

Digital information and code

Beginning information theory

Exercise

Take a photo-realistic picture of yourself.

Derive a systematic method to ‘compress’ your photo such that you use a minimal coding to represent your own image.

sample grid chart (AI)

Reference

Claude Shannon

Frieder Nake

Class 09 – Knowledge and semantic visualization

Bryan Chung — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:51:14 +0000

Assignment presentation 2

Lecture

Semantic web and visualization

Exercise

Use of XML in browser

Examples

book.xml

student.xml

borrow.xml

Class 08 – Visualization and interaction

Bryan Chung — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:42:24 +0000

Student lecture – Ben Fry

Interaction and visualization

Visualize interaction

State diagrams

Flow chart

Exercise

Find an interactive device you carry or in public space.
Identify a number of tasks that you work with the device.
Indicate whether it is a passive, stepped, continuous or composite interaction.
List out the steps of the action cycle of interaction.
Draw state diagrams to illustrate clearly the interaction.

Reference

Many Eyes

Visual Communication Lab

Wikimapia

Sense.us

Zipdecode

Class 07 – Text visualization

Bryan Chung — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:54:54 +0000

Student lecture

Text visualization

Reference

Samples

Chinese poem

昔人已乘黃鶴去

此地空餘黃鶴樓

黃鶴一去不復返

白雲千載空悠悠

晴川瀝瀝漢陽樹

芳草凄凄鸚鵡洲

日暮鄉關何處是

煙波江上使人愁

Beginning of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about they begot me; hand they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;- that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;- and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn form the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:- Had they duly weighted and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,- I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me,- Believe me, good folks, this is not so inconsiderable a thing as many of you may think it;- you have all, I dare say, heard of the animal spirits, as how they are transfused from father to son &c, &c,- and a great deal to that purpose.