Conclusion

By using the global representation,I transform the data in a kind of alien landscape explored having a visual index as a map and animation as a way to move quickly through it. This is just a starting point, equivalent to building the first road in a unexplored territory. From this first road now you can start the real exploration by selecting single interesting objects or classifying some of them in subsets of similar objects. You may order them and play animations by using representations different from the "global" one.

Visual techniques more specific to this data base are:

parameter animation
Building of visual maps of sets of images depending from two parameters a la Mandelbrot.
Breeding of formulas with a genetic algorithm

But now you don't need to be an expert to explore the data base putting in this way your visual system to work.

Our visual system has "discovered" the Newton laws many years before Newton: will this new way to explore data allow us to discover new laws of nature more quickly?

Let us see.

Back