Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Design Trend...

Point Cloud Visualization

This new video from Linkin Park is the latest installment of this trend.



It utilizes information taken by a camera that uses no film and needs no lights. It basically creates a lidar point scan of anything you put in front of it. It was first used on this video from Radiohead.



I also found that IBM recently did an entire campaign based on this look.



All in all, I like how the Linkin Park video takes it one step further and stylizes the technique with added visualization animation and lens flairs to give it a little polish. The Radiohead video always seemed a bit to rough. Also, you can take it one step further and watch David McCandless discuss the beauty of data visualization here.

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