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I'm working on creating an animated collage.

Here's what I've come up with so far,

as you can see there's texture, shading,

lights, and reflections in this cube composed of

random cubes, it's animated.

Here's the code:

http://pastie.org/897725 

I really like this new Hot Chip video directed by Peter Serafinowicz, and when I read this explanation on youtube it made me like it even more, so I'm taking note of ti:

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EXPLANATION:

This is a story of Substance VS Style. We have a shit boy band with all style and no substance. The crowd (our society) for some reason loves this. Our savior comes in with no style and destroys the band. Then, just like most artists do, he sells out and joins in on the pop culture he wanted to destroy. The black head represents those who are disgusted by this. The only way to fix the problem is to destroy the whole thing.

This video is brilliant. Its not just lasers and lols.

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Notes from Edward Tufte's class

Steven Malinowski created the Music Animation Machine, this is a great example of how large amounts of data can be processed on a single screen if designed properly, in this machine we see music, time tone, etc. 

When you create a diagram or visualization focus on the causality.

Use all the data you need to get your point across, don't simplify.

Don't decide the mode of display or the data set in advance, the driving force behind a display should be the content.

In your designs, question every element, why is this element there?

Detail is supposed to clarify and provide context.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design.

"No matter how beautiful your interface, it would be more beautiful if there were less of it"

When you create a presentation focus on two things: Telling your story, and conveying credibility, everything you say should be provided with reasons to believe it.

Always keep this in mind, all science is based on this: "This is the best explanation until a better one comes along", apply this statement to everything you say.

A good sign of good design in a visual display is, is it intriguing?

Always have a super graphic in your designs, a super graphic is a display that shows a tremendous ammount of data, e.g Minar'ds Graphic on Napoleon's Russian invasion.

If you provide handouts instead of using slideshows people can go over your information at their own pace using their own cognitive process.

Powerpoint is an authoritarian process.

The audience you're talking to has been filtered, they are as smart as you are and probably are interested in the same things, dont dumb down your presentation:

• Know your content.
• Respect your audience.

HIGH RESOLUTION DESIGN

Allow the user to poke around and explore.

Allow personalization.

Evidence is mode indifferent, content can be presented in many different ways, it depends on personal preferences.

If you have a real object that you can show, bring it to your presentation.

Annotate everything.

In design 1+1=3 Everything interacts, creates tension, vibration, always reduce contrast between elements.

When you evaluate your designs always ask yourself, what is the strongest element in this design, where is the strangest visual activity? Is this an accident? What did I intend for that?

Sports data is a great example of high resolution displays of information, millions of people look at it everyday and there's no need to dumb it down or make simple charts as Powerpoint forces you to do.

A successful display is the NY Times website, there are over 400 links on the homepage and yet people navigate through it easily every day.

Apple's industrial designer once said: 

"We don't do focus groups, we look at successful models and reuse them"

Focus on what works in the wild, forget about naive focus groups and usability tests.

In your displays content is your priority forget about the techniques.

Slides should be about content not the media through which they're created.

A lot of the history of science comes down to advances in resolution of data.

Always avoid codification, it creates an extra step makes things difficult to understand.

Show multivariate data, use whatever it takes to explain something.

Galileo quote:

"What was observed by us in the third place is the nature or matter of the Milky Way itself, which, with the aid of the spyglass, may be observed so well that all the disputes that for so many generations have vexed philosophers are destroyed by visible certainty, and we are liberated from wordy arguments"

When everyone tries to show their fingerprint in the design, it kills it.

Minimize format, maximize content.

No matter how beautiful your interface, it would be more beautiful if there were less of it.

You don't need to use icons and words, one thing should be enough to say what you mean.

Lose administrative debris.

Graphics should be everywhere, they should not become special events in your designs.

For all the marketing peeps..

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This is what the news sound like

So I'm starting to learn Python, specifically ro manipulate words, as an exercise I grabbed the latest news report on Fox News about President Obama and modified it, I used some of the words in the Jabberwocky poem, and some other words from Vogon Poetry, this is the result:

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The snale snale and bindlewurdles Democrats are drangle drangle drangle to pass some kind of plured care snale

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This is the code

GL Cubes, with light and material!

Code