Automatic Display of Complex Data in SL
IBM’s eightbar blog flags a very nice new in-world Second Life application, developed by SL resident Turner Boehm (who I think is an IBMer), that automatically models the links and nodes of a complex system using SL objects. The picture above shows multiple interconnecting software systems represented by an automatically generated set of prims, based on information stored outside SL. This kind of visual display of information can be very important in making it easier to grasp and work with complex systems, and this is just the kind of thing that SL does well. I’m thinking this could turn into a very useful app for those working with datasets — such as certain kinds of maps, traffic patterns, software systems in development, many other things — that are difficult to represent clearly in 2D. Nice work.
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A decent first attempt at an in-world viz system. Would be nice to see something where we can add in our own data.