I am currently reading John Maeda’s “Creative Code” as part of my thesis research, and one project in particular, “The Shape of Song” by Martin Wattenberg has grabbed my attention. In this project Wattenberg creates very interesting visualizations of songs by analyzing patterns within them, which in turn creates visuals that show the emergent patterns.
The project can be viewed Here
I’ve been reading “Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment” by Ben Fry recently (converting his Processing code to oF code), and it’s really awesome. I looked into some of Ben’s work, and I came upon his MIT thesis, which seems to fall in line with exactly what I want to investigate for my thesis. It is called “organic information design” and it details the history and future of using interactive/digital means to progress data visualization through interaction. Its a really good research document, as well as an interesting read!
Check it out here:
http://benfry.com/organic/