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Since October 2010 we’ve been collaborating with our friends from Bestiario on their newest project called Impure.
Impure is a visual programming language that simplifies the process of visualizing information. It has a complete set of visualizations, controls, operators and data models with which you can use to make your own space for analyzing almost any kind of data. The information can be gathered from different sources, not only user data, but also from internet feeds like social media, financial data or real time processes. Impure is based on linking visual modules, like PureData or Max/MSP.
Since everything is online, you can use it by just signing up. Once you have created an account, you can start to create your own spaces, store and share them.
Impure has been presented in several data visualization world conferences and festivals to high praise and acclaim. Because it is very easy to use and very fast showing results playing with data, Impure is also a good tool for teaching data visualization. For more info, you can check the Impure Blog.
We would like to congratulate Bestiario and especially Santiago Ortiz, for this fantastic tool and for the countless hours of work behind it. We are very proud to be a part of this project.
This is how it works:
- The left soft pink block represents the seconds that are left in the current hour.
- The middle dark pink block shows the seconds of the current minute. From top to bottom there are 20 pieces (hence 20 seconds). When this block is formed by 60 pieces it moves to the right to join the minutes as a whole.
- The right blue block represents the minutes. There are 60 vertical lines that helps reading how many minutes have passed in the current hour.
- To know the current hour number, there are 12 horizontal lines on the left side of the clock. One of them contains a thin gray rectangle.
If you are interested in downloading the source code bear in mind the you need to download TweenMax library as well.
Regards.
In Weekly Diagram 30 2010 I worked on the idea of a clock that is formed by 3600 pieces (1 hour = 60 secs x 60 mins). As long as time passes the block on the left breaks into pieces to form the block on the right. The principle is similar to a sand clock, I wanted to have a fluid system that is continuously moving.
This is how it works:
- The left soft pink block represents the seconds that are left in the current hour.
- The middle dark pink block shows the seconds of the current minute. From top to bottom there are 20 pieces (hence 20 seconds). When this block is formed by 60 pieces it moves to the right to join the minutes as a whole.
- The right blue block represents the minutes. There are 60 vertical lines that helps reading how many minutes have passed in the current hour.
- To know the current hour number, there are 12 horizontal lines on the left side of the clock. One of them contains a thin gray rectangle.
If you are interested in downloading the source code bear in mind the you need to download TweenMax library as well.
Regards.
Enjoy!