Hey Sugar List and GOSC List! This is Justin Tanner, I'm working on a proposal for the Google summer of code, to create different mesh network visualization schemes, here are some mock-ups I've created to brainstorm some ideas.
This first visualization is called "Linear Jump Frog". I thought it would be interesting to ranks all users according to they signal strength. http://www.jwtanner.com/images/svg/line1.svg Then I thought it would be fun, to have the different users hop over each other as their signal strength increases. http://www.jwtanner.com/images/svg/line1.html This next visualization is called "Planet Activity". The goal was to create a mesh visualization similar tot the OLPC neighborhood, but with space-like theme. http://www.jwtanner.com/images/svg/planet1.svg In this picture, the planets represent activities, the more popular the activity, the bigger the planet. If a user has not joined a group activity, he/she sits on an asteroid. This visualization is called "Bump Line". Similar to "Linear Jump", this visualization shows the level of connected-ness by the size of the bump the users icon sits on. http://www.jwtanner.com/images/svg/bumpline1.svg As the users more around closer or further away, each users bump, increases or decreases in real-time. This next visualization is called "Ski Jump". Pretty simple idea, all users connected on the mesh queue up and take turns going down the ski jump. The users signal strength will determine the jump height. http://www.jwtanner.com/images/svg/ski1.svg As you can see on the left the users mark their jump height after every jump. http://www.jwtanner.com/images/svg/ski1.html In this animation, a user has increased his signal strength and moved up the height rankings. Lemme know what you think, Justin. _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
