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M.O.N.E.R.A. is a new way to visualize Twitter information using an organic metaphor: each tweet is represented by a bacteria inside an ecosystem and each species represents a topic. New information is acquired dynamically by Twitter API which makes the environment live and unpredictable.
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The project was developed as part of the Information Visualization class lectured by Prof. Gudrun Klinker, TU München [1]. It was built upon the ideas of Carolin Horn and Florian Jenett in the project Anymails [2] (www.carohorn.de/anymails) and Ben Fry in the work Organic Information Design [3]. The illustrations of the creatures come from the book Kunstformen der Natur by Ernst Haeckel, about which I posted a month ago. The project was programmed using Processing [4] and it is using twitter4j to access Twitter API [5]. The engine is based on Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman [6].
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You can see the version it will be presented on the show room “ITüpferl” from Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik at TU München here:
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Or you can see the version on OpenProcessing site:
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References:
[1] Information Visualization SS2009 – campar.in.tum.de/Chair/TeachingSs09InfoVis
[2] Anymails – www.carohorn.de/anymails
[3] Organic Information Design – benfry.com/organic
[4] Processing – processing.org
[5] Twitter4J – yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j
[6] Nature of Code – shiffman.net/teaching/nature
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That’s absolutely terrific ! Huge COngrats!
I really hope to play with that soon on a Multitouch TAble / WAll .
Please keep me updated if you plan to push further this awesome project !
Are you still planning to release the source ?
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Wow that looks awesome, what a unique concept. I’ll definitely check that out.
well thats different way of looking at it
tweets represented by a bacteria inside an ecosystem. Now there’s a novel idea.
yes, and the virtualization issue was not fixed for several weeks, which created a huge problem for the programmers
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A very novel way to look at Twitter. But when teaching your audience will always learn and remember better if they can visualize it so it is a good idea, although different.
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