Final Year Studio - Research - Data Mapping Visualisation - Mapping the Web Infome

Image courtesy of http://128.111.69.4/, originally uploaded by Jimbo (Alan James Wellock).

The above screen shot is from a much larger project of mapping the Internet by Lisa Jevbratt, called Mapping the Web Infome. It enables the creation of 'web crawlers,' programs that automatically access web sites and collect data from them. Above is the most interesting manifestation relating to my project as it uses the URL's IP Address to affect what graphics are been shown on screen.

Above the initial page visited by the web crawler is a simple pixel in the centre of the window. The lines that then radiate from this centre are links from that initial page. Each of the circles contain lines that are simply links from the previous page, this allows the user by clicking on the screen to navigate perspectively through the data or hoops. Interestingly the colours of the lines are determined by the link's IP Address' actual values, for example with the IP Address 200.2.10.34, Red is 200, green is 2 and blue is 10. This idea of actually using the data value itself to determine the aesthetics of the piece could be really useful in my idea, especially in showing the difference between the commonly plotted areas and the rarely plotted areas.