1. Towards more expressive visualization Rhazes Spell rus1@duke.edu 9.16.05

2. Overview IM2 introduction IM2 recap Processing introduction

3. Image and Meaning http://web.mit.edu/i-m “The Image and Meaning events are part of the Envisioning Science Project in the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our purpose is to help scientists, writers and visual communicators develop and share improved methods of communicating scientific concepts and technical information through images and visual representations linked to appropriate text. The goal is to enhance the level of discourse within the scientific community, among teachers and those who communicate with the public through the mass media.”

4. Image and Meaning Image and Meaning 1 (2001) Lecture based traditional conference The IM2 (2005) Participatory Experiment Break outs of 12 multi-disciplinary groups to explore effective means of visual communications Participant disciplines: animators, astrophysicists, architects, biologists, cartoonists, comp. sci., educators, magazine/newspaper editors, psychologists, writers

5. Recap Print Media and Graphical Explanations Importance of audience, duh?!? How important are aesthetics for “serious” science? 2D, 4D, nD: How Far Can We Go?

7. Recap The Moving Image: Does simulation / animation help? Experimental vs. Empirical Lane formation Simulation - Polio the modelthe simulation

8. Augmented Reality One by one the penguins are stealing my sanity

9. Recap Rethinking our Tools (Artists steal the show, or “Did you know that you could get paid to...”, or... ) Have you ever heard of a puzzlemaster?

10. Recap 21st century proceedings http://www.laszlosystems.com

11. Recap “Computational Information Design”

12. Processing (http://processing.org) simple IDE for writing and running graphics applications Used by artists, designers, educators, students Small learning curve, well documented, fun API is a bastardization of Java, but you don’t need to know Java

13. Processing in action