Comments on: Volumetric Redundancies http://www.c71123.com It's o[blog]atory, isn't it? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:16:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3 hourly 1 By: JK http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-89729 JK Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:17:43 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-89729 <a href="#comment-89711" rel="nofollow">Shane Kramer</a>: I used Macromedia Director to parse the text and write an obj (3d) file. The obj file was then brought into 3DStudio Max for rendering. I would highly recommend <strong>not</strong> doing any visualizations this way. If I were to do it again (and I may at some point), I would use Maya's MEL scripting or some sort of scripting within Blender. Processing is always a good choice for any sort of graphic programming as well. Shane Kramer: I used Macromedia Director to parse the text and write an obj (3d) file. The obj file was then brought into 3DStudio Max for rendering. I would highly recommend not doing any visualizations this way.

If I were to do it again (and I may at some point), I would use Maya’s MEL scripting or some sort of scripting within Blender. Processing is always a good choice for any sort of graphic programming as well.

]]> By: Shane Kramer http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-89711 Shane Kramer Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:26:19 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-89711 JK, I wrote you a long time ago regarding your artistic merits. Though I have a masters in Software Engineering I fear that the kind of artistic talent you possess cannot be taught. A friend and I are planning a couple of data visualization centric Java projects. I wanted to ask you what you used to actually create the visualizations (I realize it was a long time ago). Do you recommend a specific suite or API? Regards, Shane Kramer JK,

I wrote you a long time ago regarding your artistic merits. Though I have a masters in Software Engineering I fear that the kind of artistic talent you possess cannot be taught.

A friend and I are planning a couple of data visualization centric Java projects. I wanted to ask you what you used to actually create the visualizations (I realize it was a long time ago). Do you recommend a specific suite or API?

Regards,
Shane Kramer

]]> By: Wil. http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-89676 Wil. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:22:45 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-89676 That's amazing. How can one person think of all these ideas...I'm awestruck! That’s amazing. How can one person think of all these ideas…I’m awestruck!

]]> By: Anonymiter http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-89581 Anonymiter Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:39:51 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-89581 This is beautiful! At first glance it was intriguing but didn't look very special. Some shapes all piled in an odd tornado of a cylinder with a little color wasn't too outstanding until I read the description and struggled to grasp what it all really meant. I've always enjoyed the ideas of all types of art but until I saw this piece I never felt that "connection" to the idea of something. Even just writing that though doesn't explain the meaning of what this did for me... its simply... beautiful. I seriously hope you don't forget about this one. The idea of writing a paper with my Volumetric Redundancies plugin on the sidebar displaying in real-time shifting new cubes corresponding to the words already written that share the same letters as the word I'm typing makes me cry for a finished product. Oh... so many possibilities and ideas!!! Its great and to be honest the idea of such plugin reminds me of the eye candy thats been flooding the Linux community lately. Anyways... just thought I'd share my take on it with you! Love the site and I hope to see more soon! This is beautiful! At first glance it was intriguing but didn’t look very special. Some shapes all piled in an odd tornado of a cylinder with a little color wasn’t too outstanding until I read the description and struggled to grasp what it all really meant. I’ve always enjoyed the ideas of all types of art but until I saw this piece I never felt that “connection” to the idea of something. Even just writing that though doesn’t explain the meaning of what this did for me… its simply… beautiful.

I seriously hope you don’t forget about this one. The idea of writing a paper with my Volumetric Redundancies plugin on the sidebar displaying in real-time shifting new cubes corresponding to the words already written that share the same letters as the word I’m typing makes me cry for a finished product. Oh… so many possibilities and ideas!!! Its great and to be honest the idea of such plugin reminds me of the eye candy thats been flooding the Linux community lately.

Anyways… just thought I’d share my take on it with you! Love the site and I hope to see more soon!

]]> By: JK http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-89507 JK Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:56:13 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-89507 <a href="#comment-88936" rel="nofollow">Jeff</a>: Back when I first created this, I tried using the visualization system with the Bible, but it consistently crashed the application. As the project was done in a poor development environment, the Bible sort of over-extended the limits of the work. I hope to port this over to a more robust language some time in the future, and one of the first new works will definitely be the Bible. Jeff: Back when I first created this, I tried using the visualization system with the Bible, but it consistently crashed the application. As the project was done in a poor development environment, the Bible sort of over-extended the limits of the work. I hope to port this over to a more robust language some time in the future, and one of the first new works will definitely be the Bible.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-88936 Jeff Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:55:28 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-88936 I am a serious student of Bible codes and related topics. I think you have tapped into a potentially profound way to visually examine theometrics. Have any books of the Bible been examined using this method yet? I am a serious student of Bible codes and related topics. I think you have tapped into a potentially profound way to visually examine theometrics. Have any books of the Bible been examined using this method yet?

]]> By: JK http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-74616 JK Mon, 26 May 2008 16:35:14 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-74616 <a href="#comment-74441" rel="nofollow">Schoschie</a>: I'm quite sure that someone could make it run real-time and display the textual information on mouseover. I imagine it would be somewhat processor intensive as we're talking about tens of thousands of 3d cubes with associated meta content. While I probably won't be attempting that anytime soon myself, as mentioned previously, I do hope to port this to <a href="http://www.processing.org" rel="nofollow">processing</a> at some point and let others input their own texts. Schoschie: I’m quite sure that someone could make it run real-time and display the textual information on mouseover. I imagine it would be somewhat processor intensive as we’re talking about tens of thousands of 3d cubes with associated meta content. While I probably won’t be attempting that anytime soon myself, as mentioned previously, I do hope to port this to processing at some point and let others input their own texts.

]]> By: Schoschie http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-74441 Schoschie Sat, 24 May 2008 12:52:08 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-74441 This is fantastic. I've been toying around with word-lists extracted from plain texts as well, looking at the frequency distribution of words. This is a very ingenious way of visualizing that kind of data. Could it be made to run in real-time and maybe display the words/paragraphs as you mouse over them? This is fantastic. I’ve been toying around with word-lists extracted from plain texts as well, looking at the frequency distribution of words. This is a very ingenious way of visualizing that kind of data. Could it be made to run in real-time and maybe display the words/paragraphs as you mouse over them?

]]> By: jk keller: living my life faster + more @ c71123.com. « shape + colour http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-47108 jk keller: living my life faster + more @ c71123.com. « shape + colour Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:43:33 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-47108 [...] data visualizations and other programs that modify existing digital data to create art. In “Volumetric Redundancies” he wrote a program that scans a text for repeated words and uses the info create cyclonic [...] [...] data visualizations and other programs that modify existing digital data to create art. In “Volumetric Redundancies” he wrote a program that scans a text for repeated words and uses the info create cyclonic [...]

]]> By: bioephemera.com » 3-D Textual Spirographs! http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-30939 bioephemera.com » 3-D Textual Spirographs! Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:32:01 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-30939 [...] . . or something like that. Courtesy of JK Keller, these Volumetric Redundancies represent the number of times a word appears in a given [...] [...] . . or something like that. Courtesy of JK Keller, these Volumetric Redundancies represent the number of times a word appears in a given [...]

]]> By: JK http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-27539 JK Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:03:48 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-27539 <a href="#comment-27113" rel="nofollow">Brad</a>: I have done a couple more books, but I no longer have a working 3d program that can deal with the file that the program outputs. I'd like to port this to processing at some point and open source it, but probably won't have the time any time soon. Many other things on the plate at the moment. Brad: I have done a couple more books, but I no longer have a working 3d program that can deal with the file that the program outputs. I’d like to port this to processing at some point and open source it, but probably won’t have the time any time soon. Many other things on the plate at the moment.

]]> By: Brad http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-27113 Brad Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:15:51 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-27113 That really is amazing, have you done any other books, and if so where can I find them? That really is amazing, have you done any other books, and if so where can I find them?

]]> By: Mandy http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-8908 Mandy Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:23:28 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-8908 War of the Worlds resembles a spaceship beaming down at earth. Makes sense, I suppose. Nice program. War of the Worlds resembles a spaceship beaming down at earth. Makes sense, I suppose. Nice program.

]]> By: ROTT http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-4389 ROTT Fri, 04 May 2007 22:27:49 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-4389 Hey JK, would it be possible for me to use one of these as my page lay out for Myspace....If so how do i do it?? I love the tornados..... thanks.... hugs Hey JK, would it be possible for me to use one of these as my page lay out for Myspace….If so how do i do it?? I love the tornados…..
thanks…. hugs

]]> By: JK http://www.c71123.com/volumetric-redundancies/comment-page-1/#comment-4363 JK Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:18:01 +0000 http://www.c71123.com/_tools/blog/?p=7#comment-4363 <a href="#comment-3758" rel="nofollow">Jeff</a>: <strong>why are the most frequently used words congregated at the top?</strong> The text translates to a volume from top to bottom, thus the original instance of reused words will congregate towards the top of the volume. <strong>is the visualization not in the text’s page order?</strong> There is no delineation of the pages of text. My sources come from <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">Project Gutenberg</a> which does not cut the text up via pages. Also, this is supposed to visualize the structure of the <em>text</em> not the book. <strong> is the length of the column proportional to the length of the work?</strong> I would call it height, but yes. <strong>have you visualized any plays?</strong> No, but I have tried a poem and all I get is a really thin cylinder, which is less interesting to me. That's a lie, the poem was a Shakespeare play. But the thin cylinder part is still true. Jeff:
why are the most frequently used words congregated at the top?
The text translates to a volume from top to bottom, thus the original instance of reused words will congregate towards the top of the volume.

is the visualization not in the text’s page order?
There is no delineation of the pages of text. My sources come from Project Gutenberg which does not cut the text up via pages. Also, this is supposed to visualize the structure of the text not the book.

is the length of the column proportional to the length of the work?
I would call it height, but yes.

have you visualized any plays?
No, but I have tried a poem and all I get is a really thin cylinder, which is less interesting to me. That’s a lie, the poem was a Shakespeare play. But the thin cylinder part is still true.

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