3D-Printing, einmal mehr...

Ich bin ein Fan von 3D-Printing, weil man damit solche nutzlosen Sachen machen kann. In fünf Jahren find ich's dann doof, einen Briefbeschwerer (für welche Briefe?) mit dem Soundspektrum meines Lieblingslieds (oder dem Geburtsschrei meines Babys?) zu haben, jetzt fänd ichs cool!

Microsonic Landscapes: Visualizing Music in Physical Form »

Microsonic Landscapes [realitat.com] by Juan Manuel de J. Escalante represents music in a physical form by way of an algorithmic translation process from sound to form. Seemingly, a series of spectrum-based soundwaves are swooped around to create tangible, circular shapes. See also - Sound Sculptures: Rendering Sounds in Tangible Forms - Augmented Sound Data Sculpture - Laser-Cut Sound Analysis Sculpture - Sound of Light Sculpture - Sound Chair...

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Image as Datastore

Das interessante an diesen Bildern ist, dass die Daten nicht in einer Tabelle, sondern als Bild gespeichert wurden. Die Farbintensität bestimmt dann wiederum, wie hoch die entsprechenden Punkte in einem 3-dimensinalen Koordinatensystem angehoben werden.Das Bild ist also der Übermittler zwischen Datenbank und 3D-Modellierungs-Tool.

Wie man diese Methode noch weiterentwickeln könnte, schreibt Moritz Stefaner hier:

if your database is an image, you can apply image transformation techniques to modify your data! (Think enhance contrast, minimum/maximum, slicing, blurring,…) What can be very difficult numeric operations if only working with numbers, can be very simple operations in Photoshop, and, again, the result is immediately inspectable. 

Oder in einer anderen Anwendung:

Now here is an incredibly simple way to do it: Pick a unique color for each country. Go through all the polygons of a country and draw them on a simple map mapping lat and long to x and y coordinates in the desired precision.

Now, for any point on earth, you just need to look up the color of the pixel belonging to its map coordinate, and — there you have the code of the corresponding country. Very handy! Again, all the difficult data processing has been taken care of by the image processing algorithm..

Twitter analysis of air pollution in Beijing

One of the air pollution detection machine in Beijing (at the American Embassy) is connected to Twitter and tweet about the air quality in real time. By default the machine in Beijing output the 24hr summary PM2.5 air pollution information. What is PM2.5 is define here

 
Source: BrainChronicle