Download: Tech Demo (2006-04-18) for Linux, Win32 and MacOSX
Download: Video Preview
Thanks to a hint on netznetz.net about the wonderful processing, I was able to stitch together a first working draft of Rhizome Navigation with a three dimensional graph.
It is not working yet as an applet embedded in the site, because unfortunalety it's seems not too easy to create an applet using openGL. I'm working on that. ...it works now! and there are still downloads for Linux, Win32 and MacOSX with a test application.
Legend
In 2003, when reading Deleuze' and Guattari's MillePlateaux while staying in Greece for three months (and drinking Vodka at 10am when a good friend told me that Johnny Cash died) I came up with the idea of Rhizome Navigation. I did the following draft back then.
My intention was to visualize data through analyzation of user behaviour. Finally the example application (the image at the beginning is an actual screenshot from the application) does excatly that. It renders the relations between single Pages from this Wiki by analyzing how links where used and how long visitors stayed on a page. A page is represented by a box and the corresponding title, a link is displayed by a line between two page-boxes. If a link was used more often, the line gets shorter and thicker, bringing the two page-boxes closer together.
In the test program you can use the mouse and shortcuts to navigate through the graph. This is far from perfect of course. I think most essential in improving the way we read and use this kind of three dimensional graph are the available tools to navigate it. So, it's nice that I made it this far, but it is just the beginning.
WalterRafelsberger
References / thanks to
processing - initiated by BenFry and CaseyReas
OCD Library - by KristianLinnDamkjer
Physics Library - by JeffreyTraerBernstein
Billboard Class - by cchoge
Feedback and Support
If you have questions or feedback regarding Rhizome Navigation please head over to the discussion boards at berlio.de or contact me directly.
Started a page with conceptual thoughts on effectively managing hierarchical data structures.
Rhizome Navigation is an interface framework which provides tools to aggregate attention data and visualize user behavior.
The images above link to videos (also here and here) Head over to the Rhizome Navigation Youtube Playlist where you can find video screencasts of prototype applications in action.
If you have questions or feedback regarding Rhizome Navigation please head over to the discussion boards at berlios.de or contact me directly.
Some time ago I posted some conceptual thoughts on effectively managing hierarchical data. I am working on a showcase with the results from my efforts: An extended Wiki system which should bring you the best from all worlds (hopefully). All meaning the simplicity of Wikis, the publishing power of CMSs, the dynamics of business and application logic and finally the hype of AJAX.
What I'm working on is basically kind of a wrapper for PhpWiki. I did a lot of research on various frameworks for rapid application development, and unfortunately, none of them did really satisfy me. There are very good ones of course, but I always had the feeling I had to start from scratch to achieve what I had in mind. Then I came back to PhpWiki which might appear like a rather strange choice as a framework. However, in my opinion, Phpwiki in its core has a very useful codebase and supports a lot of plattforms.
So stay tuned, an early Web-2.0-like closed alpha testing site is not far away from release.
Graphical visualizations of political parties' campaign programs for Austria's election for the National Council 2006 (in German).
Screenshots and Screencast Video.
Using material from 1990's Gulf War, 2002's starting invasion into Iraque and 2006' crisis in Lebanon.
Visualization Application Framework for building Navigation Interfaces based on Attention Data and User Behavior Analysis.
Examples and tutorials based on Ron Brinkmann's The Art And Science Of Digital Compositing.
