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The interactive data visualizations I worked on for the GLEAMviz project are featured in a case study in this new book on information design (page 74-77).

Design for Information: An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations, by Isabel Meirelles.

The workshop “Investigating the Language of Network Representations” at the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels is well under way and the results are shaping up great. These are some pictures of the “work(shop) in progress”.

I’ve been adding some new project pages covering:

• my artistic collaboration with Boy & Erik Stappaerts (1995-2000),
• J:ACK, An open-source ActionScript component library (2000-2003), and
• The Flash Fortress Development Kit and Demo Application (2000-2001).

Proposed set-up for an exhibition in collaboration with Boy & Erik Stappaerts.

We recently released a new major version of GLEAMviz. This application provides a user-friendly interface for using the GLEAM engine, a server-side simulator of the spreading of infectious diseases on a global scale.

Version 3 of the GLEAMviz now provides the Simulation Builder, a new interface for setting up the simulations, and two new visualizations.

The first new visualization is based on the SPaTo visualization developed by Christian Thiemann. I adapted this visualization to fit the specifics of the infection spreading data generated by GLEAM, and reimplemented it for integration in GLEAMviz. The visualization shows the shortest-path tree among the cities with airports, either using a geographic layout or a concentric layout (with or without logarithmic scaling). Animated transitions are provided when the user changes the layout.

The second new visualization uses an interactive 3D representation of the world. The incidence spreading is shown as an animated texture, while the initial seedings are shown as 3D arcs.

Accompanying this new release I also worked on a new gleamviz.org website and promotional material.