Have a look at the demonstration at the end.

Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

Super cool viszualisation done with processing.
Processing is a visualization all-in-one solution build on top of java. It’s very easy to learn and is intended to demonstrate basic programming concepts to people who usually don’t code (Designer, Musicians, …).

You can learn more about the creator of the video here:
http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=111

Learn more about processing at http://processing.org/

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

Chemistry has never been so much fun!

This is old news, but the video still astonishes me.

Once again I found some valuable stuff on youtube. This doesn’t happen that often. This video is absolutely off topic but in my opinion is sums up the most important rules one should keep in mind.

This video of Amory Lovings at TED gives hope about the future use of oil. The speech is targeted at the US oil politics and the automotive industry and contains several innovative thoughts worth listening.

I bought the Logitech Ultra Vision webcam a month or so ago. The Windows XP/Vista installation was painless and took 2 minutes. But who’s using Windows these days?

Getting an image from it in Linux was quite a pain. It didn’t work out of the box. No plug’n play. Nothing. Just a black screen worth 70 € of hardware. Grrr….

But here’s the recipe how I got it to work in Ubuntu Linux 7.10. This doesn’t mean that it will work for you, too.
First I installed the uvc webcam driver. Learn more about it on http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/.

sudo apt-get install subversion
svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk tmp-uvc
cd tmp-uvc
make
sudo make install

Now you should have the driver installed. Better than nothing.
To get the viewer that can also take pictures and avis, try

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-devwget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Investigation/uvc/luvcview-20070512.tar.gz
tar zxvf luvcview-20070512.tar.gz
cd luvcview-20070512
make
sudo make install

You should visit http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html for more information about luvcview. If you have done everything right so far, you can start luvcview with this command:

luvcview -s 640x480

I got the best image result by simply pushing the “Reset all to default” button in the middle of the screen.
And now, have some fun…

If found this video is remake of the widely known “shift happens” video. The data visualization is better and it’s slower and better to follow.

It’s impressive every time I watch it. Earth and global politics in 10 years will be quite different from what we know today. The question is, what will be yours and mine part in the change?

I found this video quite a while ago and forgot about until I stumbled upon it again today.
It’s a lecture of Ted Rossling on TED about the development of the third world with the best data visualizations I’ve seen for a while.

Summed up, there future might get better then we all think.