My contribution: Animation of bus arrivals in Portland, Oregon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/2549055956/in/photostream/ 4-D structure of BART schedules in the bay area: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/3277827552/sizes/l/ Screenshot of the forthcoming on-the-fly transitshed app: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/3237493360/sizes/o/
Cheers B On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Mano Marks <[email protected]> wrote: > This one is pretty cool: > https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/xythoswfs/webview/_xy-11704186_1?stk=1F2B268E1C6B509 > > There's of course a ton of KML time animations that work in Earth. I > particularly like: > http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/so432web/projects/battle_of_bulge.kmz > http://www.gelib.com/us-statehood.htm > > > 2009/2/13 Chris Goad <[email protected]>: >>>Returning to the topic at hand. I question if animation is necessary to >>> convey temporal dimensions in a data set. >Temporal data can be presented >>> as a series of small multiples, a la Tufte: >> Aggregating temporal variation into a static display involves a kind of >> abstraction missing from animation, and that abstraction often >> allows perception of temporal structure which would not be apparent from >> passing moments. The Minard illustration of the Napoleon's Russian >> campaign cited by Tufte ( http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters ) is a >> famous example. The same point applies to any simple graph of a quantity >> over time with time displayed on one axis. But often the quantity of data >> is excessive or the means for abstraction are not available (this applies >> for the most part to ordinary life as lived!). Here's an example that I >> worked on a few years ago where a slider drives a variety of different kinds >> of information display, which individually might be subject to temporal >> abstraction of some kind, but not collectively. >> >> >> http://www.lewisandclarknw.com/map/flashindex.html >> >> >> >> (Please forgive mentioning my own work). >> >> -- Chris >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: sophia parafina >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:18 AM >> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Cool Temporal Animations >> Returning to the topic at hand. I question if animation is necessary to >> convey temporal dimensions in a data set. Temporal data can be presented as >> a series of small multiples, a la Tufte: >> >> http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2005/12/images/1severe-storm-animation.gif >> >> Alternatively, something as simple as making use of a browser's scroll bar >> can also convey temporal changes: >> >> http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:48 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, sophia parafina <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > may I suggest chrononanism as a more mellifluous term? >>> >>> >>> What brilliance and mellifluent. Chrononanism, goes hand over fist >>> with temporiapism. Ahh... the ailments that we men suffer at the alter >>> of geospatiotemporal. >>> >>> >>> > >>> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Joshua Lieberman <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Time animations can be fun, but never seem to me as useful in the end >>> >> as >>> >> ways of including time as a dimension, the slider, the timeline, or the >>> >> timesection (time along one axis, an aggregate spatial dimension such >>> >> as a >>> >> path or list of places along the other.). >>> >> >>> >> Hmm... chronobopping? >>> >> >>> >> --Josh >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ >>> Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ >>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ >>> Sent from: Madison Wisconsin United States. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Geowanking mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> ________________________________ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> > > > > -- > Mano Marks > Geo Developer Advocate > Google, Inc. > [email protected] > http://twitter.com/ManoMarks > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
