Work from November, 2009

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Visualization of World Internet Penetration

I just made a corrected version of the previosly mentioned visualization using ActionScript. I tried a few map projections and decided to use the Winkel III projection which has a few advantages over the Mercator projection. One of them is the accaptable area distortion of countries near the ...

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How not to do geospatial visualizations

Yesterday I read an interesting article in the "AI Journal", which is the german news journal of amnesty international. It was about how many people in the world having internet access and how some governments and companies are censoring internet content. Thereby I saw this map: [caption id="attachment_776" align="aligncenter" ...

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Capturing Video from Flash Movies with ActionScript

I recently had the problem to store a flash animation into a video file. I first tried some tools I found in the net, but they all run into problems because my flash movie doesn't integrate the MovieClip timeline. Tools like swf2avi are stopping the conversion after the first ...

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Polygon Operations in ActionScript

Polygons play a major role in a lot of visualization applications. Beside of the possibility of drawing polygons, there is neither an explicit presentation of polygon data nor are common polygon operations supported in ActionScript. As far as I know there is no simple solution available that solves the following geometrical problems for simple 2D polygons, so I wrote one.

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Simple Geospatial Visualizations – German Population Density

Today I'm going to demonstrate a simple geospation visualization in flash. Therefore I used a scalable vector graphic of germany which contains individual shapes for every district. and labeled them to the specific district id used by lots of datasets. The common source for data about germany is the ...

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