http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb The Central Brainstormer Discussion Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:15:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en       http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/09/23/crc-onging-character-design-sketching/ Here are some sketches of facial expressions and poses from the photographs of Christopher.  Seeing how he'll need to move once he's animated will be important.  So I'll do a lot of this before we start to sculpt digitally.  This is where its really helpful that CRC was such a ... http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/09/19/crc-character-design-expressions-a-pose/ Here are some more sketches exploring and experimenting with broad forms and volumes for CRC. Maybe you'll also recognize the Man With No Name. I'm keeping the creative searching I'm doing informed by Christopher so he can be seen in a virtual world the way he wants to ... http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/09/19/ongoing-crc-character-design/ My fellow Brainstormer, Eric (Dr. Kramp) just shared this interesting infovis, called Universe. Its a fantastically executed visual gestalt of news and information. It got a lot of depth to drill down into. I think I'll have to dig around a lot. Thanks Eric! http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/09/06/deep-new-information-visualization-from-daylife/ http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/08/27/crc-character-study/ We just started creating out next Brainstormer character, CRC. Christopher Coppola came to our lab where we photographed him thoroughly from all sides and then snapped him doing a bit of acting. I'll use these photos for reference when I do his character design. But it ... http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/08/23/new-brainstormer-crc-christopher-coppola/ Wow! A whole radio show about ideas! Outstanding!       http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/08/20/nprs-to-the-best-of-our-knowledge-a-whole-show-on-ideas/ This visualization has excellent, artis tic graphic finesse. Its full of inventive visual language elements to communicate complex social networks. http://www.fidgt.com/visualize This video shows Fidgt in action. View Movie http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/08/09/fidgt-a-visualization-of-your-personal-social-networks/ This is a great example of creating a visual language (in this case a language made of microbes) to describe information. This type of experimentation can begin to unearth and discover all manner of information visualization possibilities. http://carohorn.de/anymails/ http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/08/03/excellent-visualization-of-an-email-inbox/ Hi Guys, This article is heavily relevant to Brainstormer and a good exploration of MMO's meeting information. You need to sign in to read this.  But I'd pick up a print copy.  There are other good articles in this issue. https://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18888&ch=infotech -000 http://brainstormer-project.sfsu.edu/BPN/bb/2007/07/24/important-article-second-earth/