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| VC 1st Anniversary |
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| Originally posted by Manuel Lima on October 1, 2006 |
As of today, October 1st, 2006, VisualComplexity.com is indexing 365 projects, one for each day of the year.
Since I started the project, one year ago, I’ve received e-mails from physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, sociologists, librarians, journalists, economists, artists, designers, architects, and others. Most of these people have praised and thanked me for the endeavor, which has been extremely gratifying. I truly never believed that VC would generate so much attention and that there would be so many people all over the world interested in this subject. The broad range of fields and interests that populate my inbox also reflect the variety of projects collected at VC.
VC provides a vast collection of many worlds we would never see if there hadn’t been an effort to visualize them. Most projects try to make complex information easier to understand and use, and VC gathers and categorizes all of them in a unique space to facilitate sensible comparisons. VC is a growing map of maps.
The most common subject represented in VC is Knowledge Networks, with 69 projects, followed by Social Networks and World Wide Web, respectively with 45 and 34 projects each. Besides offering an insight on the visualization methods used in a particular field in order to represent its inner schemes, the most important quality of VC is bridging apparently distinctive areas with similar visualization techniques. It’s truly fascinating to notice a high-level pattern arising from apparently opposite areas, and observe how an analogous visual model can represent a protein network or a web of Internet servers. There are innumerous cases that provide a rich inspirational resource for this type of assessment and I will be talking about them here in the future.
To celebrate the first anniversary of VisualComplexity.com I created a poster available for anyone to download and a mosaic with the first 360 projects indexed in VC. |
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Poster:
23 X 35 inches
58.4 X 88.9 cm
Format: PNG
150 dpi
Download
(11.6 MB)
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Last Updated on October 1, 2006 |
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Comments (21):
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Congrats Manuel! I'm a big fan of your site and been using it on a regular basis. I cannot believe on the amount of projects collected over one year! Keep up the great work.
Posted by david yates on Oct 5, 2006 at 9:17 PM (GMT)
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hello from Strasbourg France
"la r�forme de la pens�e parcellaire par la pens�e complexe."this is the next step for the humanity.
Posted by Pascal Walter on Oct 7, 2006 at 1:18 PM (GMT)
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Your website is a must, and a beatiful creation. Many thanks and regards.
Posted by C�line on Oct 10, 2006 at 9:54 PM (GMT)
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I love your site, these projects are the most fantastic art as well as some of the most advanced forms of perception available to technological man. I believe this sort of display is a kind of mandala. Look up the definition of "yantra" and tell me if you don't think this is doesn't represent the Tantra of the Technogeeks.
Posted by Dave Rawlence on Oct 12, 2006 at 11:00 PM (GMT)
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VC has been a great inspiration and research source. It's going to be an excellent resource for future information designers. It's been wonderful watching it grow over the past year, and I can't wait to see where it leads next.
Posted by Aaron Siegel on Oct 15, 2006 at 5:40 PM (GMT)
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Do you sell the poster? printed?
Posted by Pili Hanisch on Oct 21, 2006 at 11:59 PM (GMT)
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Hey everyone. Thanks a lot for the compliments and I'm really happy that so many of you find VC a useful resource.
Pili - I'm thinking on allowing anyone to buy a printed poster from cafepress or similar service. I will update this post as soon as it's available.
Posted by Manuel Lima on Oct 25, 2006 at 1:17 PM (GMT)
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Parabens! This work is more than an interesting place to found great proyects; is the first reference for me, and I guess, a lot of other people who works in science, art and visualization.
Posted by santiago ortiz on Oct 31, 2006 at 1:59 AM (GMT)
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I think your work is fantastic and very important and should spread. What are your future plans?
Posted by Gerardo Broussi on Nov 1, 2006 at 5:59 AM (GMT)
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Thank you so much for this brilliant and amazing website. I have never seen such intensely beautiful images in my life. What an amazing and inspiring treat for the eyes and mind. Thank you ever so much.
Posted by Diane Michel on Nov 2, 2006 at 12:56 AM (GMT)
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Thanks everyone. Obrigado Santiago! Gerardo - My future plans are to continue expanding VC to an undetermined limit, but most of all to make VC a more comprehensive resource tool. To make the act of retrieving content more easy, by creating new filtering categories, such as: by tool (flash, java, etc), by structure (the most hard but perhaps most interesting method) and even by popularity (based on a rating/review system). Another plan I have for VC is to allow other people to contribute with their input and ideas, and generate discussion within some of these topics. An immediate one is definitely to solve the size problem of the homepage. With currently 374 thumbnails to load, it becomes a bit to heavy for some computers.
Posted by Manuel Lima on Nov 8, 2006 at 12:28 AM (GMT)
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Congratulations, your website is great !
Posted by LES ANGES URBAINS on Nov 18, 2006 at 7:12 PM (GMT)
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VC has been a great source of inspiration for my work. Whenever I need a creative nudge for a project I always look here for great ideas.
Posted by Trey Thompson on Dec 14, 2006 at 5:52 PM (GMT)
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I love this site. I hope you expand into non-graph visualizations.
Posted by falcon on Dec 18, 2006 at 4:15 AM (GMT)
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Your site has provided me much insight and a unique views of network analysis. Thank you so much for tracking and reporting on these projects!
Posted by Randal on Dec 29, 2006 at 3:56 PM (GMT)
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Echoing all that has been said and I would like to connect to expand on some of our network and Visualisation assignments with over 700 clients. How do we connect?...
Posted by John Caswell on Jan 8, 2007 at 12:09 PM (GMT)
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Thanks for your great work, Excellent utility!
Posted by David Bihanic on Jan 12, 2007 at 12:28 PM (GMT)
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What a ravishing site -- beautiful, lucid, deeply meaningful. I've been here for hours, enthralled. Thank you!
Posted by Elatia Harris on Feb 14, 2007 at 5:23 AM (GMT)
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I'm a professor at a Southern China university. We got inspired by the VC projects and just launched an extensive social network research in China. The project is an Open Source study and the results are available to all serious students or researcher.
A short introduction is at http://www.km-int.net
The project is non-commercial
Posted by Mauri G Gronroos on Mar 26, 2007 at 7:15 AM (GMT)
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World's first & unique Open Armin Blaess BrainstormsSource- Research & Developments- further on all the best to visualcomplexity.com- Creators, Network and Community
Posted by armin blaess on Apr 27, 2007 at 11:32 AM (GMT)
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Truly, tops. Thank you for this portal of inspiration.
Posted by siem on Dec 12, 2007 at 5:40 PM (GMT)
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