http://www.openvisuals.org/blog Fri, 02 May 2008 01:28:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the thesis week is one week away, everything on the OpenVisuals side is going great! I am about to finish revising the website, which comes with better usability and more visualizations. I will post the version of the OpenVisuals API soon to the website, just need to fix an issue ... http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/04/25/website-back-again-and-getting-excited/ OpenVisuals is having some break, in order to recover after things got messy with the launch of OpenProcessing. OpenVisuals will be back with fixed bugs, better design and new release of API. http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/04/03/having-some-break/ I have been doing presentations on OpenVisuals for a while, and here is my latest presentation file. It's my first try of Google Docs Presentation by the way, and adding a presentation to a website looks amazing! http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/03/24/latest-presentation-of-openvisuals/ So here is a new version of the API. I have to say, it is still far from working smoothly, however you might want to give it a try, since it surely works if you use it the way it is explained in the learning section. You can download it ... http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/03/06/openvisuals-api-version-0011-is-there/ Here is a new feature! Tags with rss subscription! You can subscribe a tags rss feed in the browse page, so that you can get informed when a new visualization is uploaded with that tag. Though it might look not worthy enough, I guess it would allow people to gather groups around ... http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/03/06/i-love-rss/ On the website, many many stuff is up there, live indeed! Check out the learning and reference section! These pages, as in any API, has the most important part in encouraging users to check the API. I will be on to fill in the gaps (broken links) in the reference section. New ... http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/03/05/many-many-developments/ I guess, besides the techy posts, it is time to talk more about what OpenVisuals is, why it is there, who it is talking to, how it is being developed... When we were asked to give a one sentence description of our thesis project at ITP, my response was: OpenVisuals is an ... http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/03/05/openvisuals-overview/ Thanks to Daniel Shiffman, tomorrow I will have the opportunity to present OpenVisuals in his class, Nature of Code, in which students are creating very interesting processing applications. I believe, some of them are great examples of  visualizations, so this presentation is very important for me. Here is the pdf version ... http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/03/05/presentation-at-nature-of-code-class/ I am trying to collect sample datasets to test in OpenVisuals.org. As of that, these sample datasets should: sample a generic type of datasets. should have different but generic formats, which would be a format outcome of copying/pasting, exporting from excel, etc.. (right now, I can think of differences in comma ... http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/02/21/sample-datasets-i-am-trying-to-import/ I exported Javadocs from the current version of the API that I have been working on. My goal is to find actually a better automatic documentation, like the Reference of Processing. I learned that (source: Daniel Shiffman) Ben Fry is using some kind of self-built Javadoc parsing application to generate ... http://www.openvisuals.org/blog/2008/02/19/javadocs-are-up/