a new series of Processing visuals coming up!

——— the living city – urbagram  Anil Bawa-Vacia———-
- last fm
- analyze cities
- mostly invisible – physical networks there also made up of flows and interactions, of goods and peoples
- where and how to visualize the city?

interaction
- foursquare mapping of NY city
- walkable cell – 7 minutes of walking – the amount of logs in a couple of months. the city as used, not as planned.
- how walkability is important for our understanding of our cities
- how demographic uses a city (e.g. smartphone – users)
- urbanism via a quantitative turn (big data turn
- cities feel fragmented if you cant walk from a to b

boundaries
- invisible boundaries
- national scale
- MIT sensible city lab
- communicational turns – many policy boundaries
- mobile phone data of the UK – very nice! communcaion boundaries analytical and visualization task

flows
- digital traces that we leave
- a flowprint is shown
- complexity science
- you get a sense here of the complexity; you need microscopes – see the city as one thing
- flowprint prototype made in Processing
- london oyster network visualized (really nice visuals)
- construct the routes that people took
- if you these trips together, you get a bigger picture – big data again (2 million samples)
- also, a bike-chart is shown – bike flows
- a relational-space development chart is shown
- result: a phase-space
- complex and knowable but not predictable

see urbagram website

This application takes a snapshot every time a treshold of x pixels alters in the camera’s view.
In other words, when there is significant movement, this will be recorded and displayed accompanied by the time the snapshot is taken. This application is the first in a series of tests that aim to find out how and why certain reactions takes place when ‘surveillance’ images are feedbacked to the public. What happens when you are logged like this, in a certain location and time, for others to see? And what does this tell us about the experience and role of images in public space. More soon…

source code (Processing) can be found here:

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squareattacks from tjerk timan on Vimeo.

Method

- set up webcam

- start Processing prog.

- set pixelsize in prog to 1

- saveFrame when frame is filled.

- press ‘run’

- go about and do your daily stuff

- after an hour or two, watch the result.

This video shows an exploration of interactive coded visuals. In this case, the animation is recorder and reacts to mouse_Input. These variable will be replaced soon by sensors. This is the code:

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