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Information Landscapes

 
These example cybermaps represent cyberspaces as three dimensional landscapes.

 


 

Map.Net 3D cityscape - click for larger image

The 3D cityscape view of the Web generated by Map.Net. You fly-through the world, with individual websites represented by different buildings. The large skyscrapers are the most popular and important site on the Web.

Map.Net also provide 2D information maps of the Web.

 

A visualisation of human extensibility produced by Paul Adams, a geographer at the University of Texas at Austin. The image is of a CAD-model that shows the different communications spaces used by five connected people during one day.

Paul Adam's CAD model - click for a larger image

Harmony - click for a larger image

The Harmony Internet browser provides 3D information landscape visualisations of Web sites. It was developed by Keith Andrews and colleagues at the Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) at Graz University of Technology. (See Keith Andrew's paper "Visualising Cyberspace: Information Visualisation in the Harmony Internet Browser")

This is an example of the City of News, a 3D information browsing system being developed by Flavia Sparacino, at MIT Media Lab. The visual representation is based on a city metaphor.

The system allows multiple people to 'inhabit' the City of News landscape in real-time via wearable computers and gestural interfaces.


PITS - click for larger image PITS - Populated Information Terrains, an experimental information visualisation technique developed by Dave Snowdon, Steve Benford and colleagues in the University of Nottingham. It is an advanced VR system that allows multiple participants to interact with information and collaborate with each other.


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click for larger image Tim Bray's visualisation of sites in the 'Web Space', calculated from metrics derived from the OpenText search engine. For more information see Bray's paper "Measuring the Web".

[For more information see the Map of the Month article "Tim Bray's Hyperlink Totems (1995)" in Mappa.Mundi Magazine.]


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Yahoo!3D was an experimental three dimension cybermap of part of Yahoo's hierarchical Web directory. A series of 3D VRML worlds representing parts of the Yahoo directory have been created, which you can walk or fly through to access relevant Web sites. Unfortunately, it is not longer available.

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This information landscape are mapping structure of aging research. The research, conducted by Katy Börner, Indiana University and Kevin Boyack, Sandia National Laboratories, analyses the structure of a particular knowledge domain using citation counts between publications and data on grants.

The visualisation was created using VxInsight, a tool for discovering relationships within large databases.

 

The research of Sara Fabrikant, whilst a graduate student at the Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder , into information searching and browsing using spatial metaphor of the landscape. The screen-shot below shows the prototype landscape interface.

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| Introduction | Whats New | Conceptual | Artistic | Geographic | Cables & Satellites | Traceroutes |
| Census | Topology | Info Maps | Info Landscapes | Info Spaces | ISP Maps | Weather Maps |
| Wireless | Web Site Maps | Surf Maps | MUDs & Virtual Worlds | Historical |
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