Science
Subsidyscope, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, has built some interesting interactive visualizations of recent various federal programs meant to “Fix” the economy.
A report from NPR’s Joe Greenberg discovered how states are spending millions of federal stimulus dollars with Autodesk
Applicant has generated a great collection of employment and unemployment graphs for each of the 50 states.
Pixar coupled a physics simulation with a procedural animation tool to make the balloons in ‘Up’ realistic.
SIGGRAPH2009 has announced some of the papers that will appear in the 2009 Technical Papers Program.
David McCutchen, CTO of Immersive Media, sits down to talk about Spherical video technology and the dodeca2360.
A New iPhone application that works with a web interface for building interactive visualizations.
With tiled displays becoming cheaper to build and more widespread in deployments, how many pixels can a user effectively see?
A interesting map of the US that distorts state size by population, based on data from the 2005 census estimate.
Tim Sweeney talks about Graphical Realism in Games
Tim Sweeny estimates we are a factory of 1000 away from Graphical Realism, and it can be achieved in 10-15 years.