The Valence applet off that page (which is fun to watch), leads to: (01)
http://proce55ing.net/
"The Processing project introduces a new audience to computer
programming and encourages an audience of hybrid
artist/designer/programmers. It integrates a programming language,
development environment, and teaching methodology into a unified
structure for learning. Its goal is to introduce programming in the
context of electronic art and to open electronic art concepts to a
programming audience. Unlike other popular web programming
environments such as Flash and Director, Processing is an extension
of Java and supports many of the existing Java structures, but with a
simplified syntax. The application runs locally and exports programs
to Java applets, which may be viewed over the Internet. It is not a
commercial production tool, but is build specifically for learning
and prototyping."
and
"The software is currently in a prerelease stage, but bug fixes are
being made as we head toward a more complete "1.0" release.
Processing will be free to download and available for Mac, PC, and
Linux. " (02)
On 17 Dec 2003 at 17:08, Jack Park wrote: (03)
> Wow! $80. Amazon's got their other book at half price. Maybe they'll
> offer this one at half price too.
>
> While thinking about visual presentations, go visit this site
> http://www.fridgebuzz.com/2002_12_01_arch.html
>
> Cheers
> Jack
>
> Gary Richmond wrote:
>
> > [note: I'm forwarding this from Martin Dodge's MAPPING-CYBERSPACE
> > list as of possible interest. The book has just been published so
> > neither Dodge nor I have read it yet.]
> >
> > Inhabited Infomation Spaces: Living with your data
> >
> > David N.Snowdon, Elizabeth F. Churchill & Emmanuel Frcon (eds)
> >
> > http://www.iisbook.com/
> >
> > Inhabited Information Spaces
> >
> > Inhabited Information Spaces (IIS) are a means to fuse the
> > representation of information with a representation of the people
> > using it thereby helping to put the information in context. Many
> > studies of co-operative working have shown that even when
> > co-operation is not explicit a surprisingly large amount of work
> > relies on the knowledge of what other people are doing so that work
> > can be co-ordinated. Therefore although information visualisation
> > systems are useful tools without a representation of who is using
> > the information and what they are doing with it they are inadequate
> > to support group work.
> >
> > The field of (IIS) (sometimes referred to as Populated Information
> > Terrains, or PITs) overlaps that of Collaborative Virtual
> > Environments (CVEs) as CVEs are one of the preferred inmplementation
> > techniques for visualisation information in a collaborative way.
> > However, IIS does not necessarily imply the use of virtual
> > environments technology - for example, it is possible to imagine a
> > system that enables co-located groups to co-operatively work with
> > information by using a dispaly projected onto physical artefacts.
> >
> > The key point is that the space used to represent the information is
> > also inhabited by the users of that information whether virtual (via
> > avatars) or by their normal physical presence. This book will
> > consider all variants on ISS, the technology required to make it
> > work and the social and psychological issues raised by such work.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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