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In-Formation Flocking Boids

25 January, 2007

Inspired by bird formations, Andrea Lau and Andrew Vande Moere created in-formation flocking boids. It demonstrates an information visualisation method using a decentralised multi-agent system to represent time-based volatile datasets. Groups of similar data objects - in this case, exchange market stocks - will form wedge-shaped formations which reflect underlying data similarity. The visual reveals both global trends, and patterns within subsets of data.

Visualisation employs intuitive and aesthetic communication of information by visual media. Visualisation allows us to explore complex, dense, and abstract data in order to investigate patterns and eccentricities in information, and to negotiate data more easily than conventional text-driven representations permit.

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

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Categories: Design Computing , Information Visualisation , Research , Student

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