One of the best “data visualizations” I’ve seen in a long time. Even if it’s kind of inverted…
At the very least it’s original.
Found on Phat’s Bouillabaisse
Too much time has passed since the last Idea-Blog posting. There are several reasons for that, most notably the fact, that Strukt spent most of it’s time this year reacting to changing circumstances an too little time playing with ideas. Next year should be more idea-filled and less driven by our environment.
And at the end of the year it’s always good to have a little perspective and so I have done a little research on media perception and how it influences our thinking. How does one’s world view act as a filter?
It is interesting to consume vastly different media categories and see what they have in common. Even if the interpretation changes, the basic facts remain the same. If those facts are true or manufactured is unknown but the media knows that an either side chooses to ignore it or to use it as key evidence for their case. In the end, we know “everything” but we will never KNOW anything about a specific incident and it’s circumstances. But when we look at multiple news items and how they spread (a small side note in an article can at any time be blown up to become a cover story…) through different media channels patterns emerge. When taking a sufficently big numer of such events we can start looking for the bigger story. Here again, you will choose the story according to your current world view and/or general inclinations.
What happens now is one of the following:
1) Accept what mainstream media tells you and act like the general culture suggests. Believe that you are being told the whole story!
2) Come to the conclusion, that there are things that official entities are not willing to tell you and that this is done out of certain reasons that we can only speculate about. Believe that our political and military leaders do, what’s in our best interest.
3) Or ask yourself what will happen if the motives behind the secrecy are not benevolent.
Before you decide, watch a little independent media and look around, check a few facts and have fun! Because what I have found out recently: conspiracy theories are a lot more entertaining than 90% (very conservative estimate) of our TV programme!
This is why I’m suggesting the following free documentaries:
Wake Up Call - New World Order Documentary
We Feed The World
Ufo The Greatest Story Ever Denied
In december this advertisment from Mini appeared in several magazines, which featured an augmented reality Mini cabriolet. Unfortunately, it only works on Windows with Internet Explorer and ActiveX. But it looks really great and it is sure a nice idea to present a product.
Via technabob.
BMW used the Microsoft Surface as a platform to come up with a multi-user multi-touch car configurator. This was just about time to happen, and they also claim to be the first car manufacturer in the world to use this technology. Well good for them - whoever wants to follow up, please call us, we got something in store for you 
This is something that is so obvious to be happening at some point, but it is of course exciting to see the first prototypes of flexible screens out there. Having bigger, flexible screens for installations would make creating virtual worlds even easier. With this technology it should be also possible to form different bodies like a sphere aswell. Let’s hope for market-ready products soon.
Structure Synth is an application for creating 3D structures from a set of user specified rules.
So basically it is a tool to create complex, 3-dimensional structures out of some liens of code. The Code looks like this:
1 * { rz 90 x 10 y 12 s 9.8 } 5 * { ry 1 } 50 * { ry 10 rx 1 z 0.8 } 1 * { s 0.01 1 10 } box
{ x 30 y 30 z 0 s 900 900 1 h 90 } box
At the first look it seems quite complicated but the basic instruction set is very simple. Below are some images, the code above was used to create the first image.
