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    June 30

    Microsoft Data Visualization Partner of the Year

     
     
     
    Oculus is one of two finalists of the 2009 Data Visualization Partner of the Year award.  Below are some screenshots of an early version of the application that won the award.
     
     
        
     

    April 13

    Superfluid vs Particle

     
    Superfluid vs Particle from jimi hertz on Vimeo.
    April 09

    Gesture support in Windows 7

     
     
    March 26

    Talking about Microsoft's Bid To Control The Cloud - Forbes.com

     

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    Talking about Microsoft's Bid To Control The Cloud - Forbes.com
    Azure will work with Vista, XP (87% of the world's machines) and, eventually, the millions of devices running the latest version of Windows Mobile and machines running Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) operating system. So far there's software that aggregates digital photos and arranges them by date and person (using facial recognition tools). Its online e-mail service can display Gmail messages without the ads, a sneaky jab at Google's revenue source.
    March 22

    Enter the 'nonsuit'

    This is an Interesting article from an issue of the May 1979 Playboy magazine.  Link opens up the PlayboyArchive site.   Browsable with Silverlight.
     


     
    January 30

    Oculus attains Certified Partner status!

    Finally, after 7 years of effort, Oculus has reached the Certified Partner level.   I also believe that we are the first Canadian company to achieve the Data Visualization area of specialty. 


    January 29

    Fun with PhotoZoom

    http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com/DZApp/IFrame.aspx?alias=mikepeters&album=2" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="100%"
    January 20

    WPF Images

    This is a sample framework visualization that I did recently, simply to illustrate a basic 'two walls and a floor' visualization with WPF.  The really nice thing here is that the 2D walls contain simple UserControls, and that WPF can handle them quite nicely in a 3D environment.

    October 07

    Using Photosynth as a 3D Visualization browser

     
    I'm preparing a presentation for the company to try to illustrate some of the new technology coming out of Microsoft.  This was supposed to be a Mix08 summary, but is obviously several months late (whoops!)
     
    At any rate, I was thinking of taking a number of panoramic shots of my condo, or the office, but then decided to test it out with a sample visualization application.  So I screenshot the venerable Risk In Motion reference app, quite rough, but good for experimenting with.
     
     
     
    September 22

    Recent visualization experiments

     
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     Some more work on a 2/3D dynamic bubble plot visualization.  This version supports trails for a single selected element, and ease-in animation using Hermite splines (thanks to Edwin Locke for the suggestion).  Luckily DirectX has a method right on Vector3 that generates Hermite splines.
     
     
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     This is another screenshot of the general purpose WPF scatterplot visualization.  Metrics can be mapped to X, Y location, height, color, and width of the bar.
     
     
     
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    This is an animating WPF tooltip for a standard reference application that I built using WPF 3D.  The tooltip shows the current scenario as a vertical bar, and every scenario as a simplified linechart.  As the visualization movie animates, the marker bar updates.  Simple stuff, really, but integrating nice looking 2D with 3D has always been a miserable pain, and the results have historically been disappointing.
    August 06

    More fun with surfaces

     
    Some screenshots testing out adding a surface with a video brush to a visualization.  In this case, it's a DVD of one of the episodes of "Heros" mapped in real-time to the animating surface.
     
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    July 31

    Fun with Surfaces

     
    Two tests with surfaces with 'holes'
     
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    July 23

    WPF Databrowser application

    This shows a scatter plot of 7000 grocery store items for 15 nutrition metrics.  The bars can display up to dimensions simultaneously.

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    WPF Surface

     

    An inital attempt at creating a surface using WPF

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