Happy New Year!
I’ve spent some time lately thinking about an idea that came out of a conversation with my adviser, John, at the beginning of last semester, but I had forgotten about until recently. We talked about what it meant to have a visualization that was “alive” in some way. I brought this up with Seth today and we spent some time trying to come up with some examples and define what “alive” means in a visualization context. We agreed to describe this type of a visualization as a “visual ecology” and he has a nice post on his blog summarizing some of our ideas. Hope I’ll have more to say about this soon.