the truly impressive 3D & animated information graphics shown during the long opening sequence of the movie Stranger than Fiction. all visual effects were developed by MK12 studio. (i.e. infographic art, closing credits effects) & Intelligent Creatures (i.e. opening scene, flat demolition).
when will there be an augmented reality application capable of overlaying such real-time information, especially for the data-addicted between us?
[link: mk12.com (Quicktime, closing credits)& wikipedia.org & sonypictures.com & youtube.com|thnkx Andrea!]
see also An Inconvenient Truth infographics.
a proposal for information displays to be placed in main streetside entrance of the planned Transbay Transit Center & Tower in downtown San Francisco. the displays are meant to convey live graphic train scheduling, & densities in the urban fabric formed by the intersection of various transit routes.
trains, buses & other transit types are tracked, & their positions & times to departure are indicated by their distance from the outside edge of the building. over time, passengers could develop a mental model of the transit system at various times throughout the day.
in an alternative concept, a live display of the various transportation networks reveals the current state to the travelers, to allow them to understand the current range of transportation possibilities available to them, & make better decisions on where to go and when.
[link: stamen.com|thnkx Tom!]
Michael Nielsen 最近又开始活跃地 blog 起来。最近一个帖子提到,他也在考虑网络对科学的影响,并已经开始起草一本相关的书,在未来几个礼拜内会贴出一个摘要。摘要将谈到这些内容:
Micropublication(微发布): Allowing immediate publication in small incremental steps, both of conventional text, and in more diverse media formats (e.g. commentary, code, data, simulations, explanations, suggestions, criticism and correction). All are to be treated as first class fully citable publications, creating an incentive for people to contribute far more rapidly and in a wider range of ways than is presently the case.
Open source research(开源研究): Using version control systems to open up scientific publications so they can be extended, modified, reused, refactored and recombined by other users, all the while preserving a coherent and citable record of who did what, and when.
The future of peer review(同行评议的未来): The present quality assurance system relies on refereeing as a filtering system, prior to publication. Can we move to a system where the filtering is done after publication?
Collaboration markets(合作市场): How can we fully leverage individual expertise? Most researchers spend much of their time reinventing the wheel, or doing tasks at which they have relatively little comparative advantage. Can we provide mechanisms to easily outsource work like this?
Legacy systems and migration(旧体制,以及移植): Why is it that the scientific community has been so slow to innovate on the internet? Many of the ideas above no doubt look like pipedreams. Nonetheless, I believe that by carefully considering and integrating with today’s legacy incentive systems (citation, peer review, and journal publication), it will be possible to construct a migration path that incentivizes scientists to make the jump to new tools for doing research.
网络对科学的影响是格致从一开始就关注的主题,现在有一个专门的群组:网络与科学,讨论这方面的话题。
Michael Nielsen 不仅是量子信息与计算领域一年轻大牛,而且也属于 web savvy 的科学家。他这样的人开始认认真真地考虑这些事情,让我觉得,这样的变革(所谓科学 2.0)真地会在不久的将来发生。
期待他的详细摘要和新书。
最后八卦一下,他不久前移动到加拿大的 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,就是 Yidun 所在的研究所。
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