Ideas

• Are there any direct contradictions, clear cut disagreements, either over time or at a single time? What does the map of these contradictions look like?

Maps exist...

Eigenfactor makes some amazing maps! like this one, this one, and this one. Don't forget to use your mouse!

• many analyses on this website are broken
• this all points to an amazing knowledge concentration at UW
• pls note that this is replicable
• you can just copy down the JS files (e.g.), which link to the data files (e.g.)
• this makes it somewhat simple to customize and repurpose this tool!
  Eugene garfield's original

phanerozoic

And an even better timeline tool, timeline JS

AND I discovered this guy

• holy poo: OECD better life index

Don't forget scimaps. Led to Kim, flowing data, Outlier conference, this amazing viz
For more, look to viz research and a list of frameworks.

Thinking about using Grasshopper for creating the shapes, but looks overly complicated and only barely useful for my purposes.

Linked jazz

Misc

ray shading the antarctic peninsula
Puzzle printing: The tweet, and the marketing, and the printing / shipping / etc

Tiling / Rendering / Whatever

polymaps seems to make amazing maps (e.g., e.g.)

• uses TileStache server
  • rendered with mapnik, "Generates vector tiles from OGR datasources in GeoJSON usable in Polymaps.", etc.

This just looks like the answer.

So what is the format I need to generate to render my map?

• What is a shapefile? (it's the thing you want to use)
• QGIS is amazing
  • But, honestly it's just a friggin pain to work with.... Maybe generate the shapefiles in python, PyShp, and pip:pyshp?
  • You can script directly in QGIS...
  • You shouldn't need to know much about map projections, since you're not mapping on a sphere. And there's a catesian grid, e.g. EPSG:27700

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• There are algorithms for constrained graphing, e.g., e.g., e.g., but these seem to all be for super small graphs. They're really cool however, and if I can use them for large graphs, I should just do that.
• Physics simulations could provide the solution, as long as I can specify individual forces however I like (specify a field equation, e.g.)
• Matter.js is SO COOL. This could be the whole thing, if it were scalable (which it CERTAINLY is not).

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+Embedding spaces of some sort could be the answer...

• Maybe Ben would be able to understand and guide me on this kind of stuff.
• Look at this!

actually producing the tiles?

seadragon

Animation

(using Unreal Engine)

• How to make Mechanical Joints with Physics Constraints in Unreal Engine 4
• Physics: Pendulus and Spring
• How to make Magnets using Physics Constraints in Unreal Engine 4
• Physics: Impulse and Force

point clouds & giant 3d viz

• infinite fractal zoom for inspiration
• potree for efficient in-browser point cloud viz
• this had some giant point cloud visualization, like I'm trying to build. clunkyish but has an API // "Deep scatterplots" (code, explorer, blog)
• with svg
• Barnes-Hut always useful & important to learn, along with an interface (d3) for it, tutorial
• this could be useful for 50k interactive points (3d or 2d)Interactive 3D / 2D webgl-accelerated scatter plot point renderer. Core functionality from the embedding projector, capable of rendering and interacting with tens of thousands of points.