Silicon, Carbon, Culture
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SILICON, CARBON, CULTURE is a joint initiative of the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Fine and Applied
Arts, with support from the Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts, and
Culture and the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs and the Office of the Chancellor.
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The War and Peace project attempted to model historical
conflict relationships between 150-odd countries from 1800-1990 from a
network model standpoint. The model used a texture-mapped sphere
with a high resolution NASA photograph of the Earth from space being the
texture. Mapped onto the surface of the sphere were smaller,
colored spheres representing each country. A user could navigate
through the network with a controller and view the network from the
standpoint of the currently selected country.
The model represented conflict relationships between
countries with lines from one country center to another country center.
The degree centrality of the node with respect to the entire network was
represented by it's color, with red being a high degree centrality and
blue being a low degree centrality. Degree centrality corresponded
to the intuitive idea of "how many conflicts I've had with other
people."
The other factor that was modeled was prestige.
From the viewpoint of a selected country, it and all of the countries it
had relationships with expanded and contracted at faster or slower
speeds depending on how prestigious each country was.
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Neil Oberg
Advisor: Benjamin Schaeffer
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Chris McDowell, Bo Lu, Madhur
Nigam,
Karen Medina, and Varun Tuli
Advisor: Benjamin Schaeffer
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The Info-Forest project looked at the relationship
between groups of people on campus. In the visualization, the groups
are represented by tall pylons in a forest. The paths in the forest
connect the groups together. Then visually we can learn what the
nature of their relationships are by looking at the markers on the
path. There are three types of markers: rocks-difficult
relationship, weeds - bad relationships and flowers - good relationships. |
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