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hpark
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27 Jul 2006 3:44 PM
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One man's spam is another man's art. I saw this article about a computer artist who took unwanted spam emails and created art based on it. While I wouldn't want to read the spam, they sure are pretty to look at.
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07 Nov 2006 11:01 PM
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If you liked this, you might like this even better.  A film based on flight traffic patterns.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPv8psZsvIU

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http://www.iquestglobal.com/display.html



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This thread seems to touch two ideas: William Gibson's vision of software unfolding in cyberspace described in Neuromancer, and the idea that the patterns generated by our economy/society represent data that can be understood in ways other than tables of numbers from the NBER, BLS, and Dept. of Commerce. Certainly one can see petterns in the flight data; a simulation of Southwest Airlines' cargo operations traced their flights with each leaving a trail whose width signified how much cargo was carried on that flight, and whose color indicated how profitable that cargo load had been. One could see at a glance what was happening, or watch it unfold during a day.

Is there a sofware offering that makes it easy to drive false-color imaging, graphing, charting of arbitrarily chosen data feeds?  Visual Technorati?



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