http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/03/14/is-animation-an-effective-tool-for-data-visualization/?src=elegantfigures-rss On data visualization and information design on the Earth Observatory. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:40:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/03/14/is-animation-an-effective-tool-for-data-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-61604 Karin Lisa Atkinson Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:32:33 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=676#comment-61604 As someone who has worked with visual effects and animation since 1970′s, my opinion is a definite YES to using animation as an effective tool for data visualization. Historically – back before computers, when all of our animation was optical film based, only a few people were using animation ~ the medical, military, aerospace and entertainment industry. The costs of developing new generations of animation and the eventual move to design computers, which could accept images then do image manipulation (animation) was primarily funded by the entertainment industry. Part of the evolutionary steps of animation was to design the ability to input and export the raw images into computers. We were encouraged to do this, as we knew that people respond to sound and colour carried in images of light. By our human design, we import and export sensual experience via various extra sensory abilities – which are triggered by sound then colour then light. What better way to communicate to people, so they may absorb the true nature of our universe within multiverses of information based in sound, colour and light. After all common unity, community, communication is a force of nature which calibrates to a degree our human evolutionary and spirit progress through shared imagery in sound, colour and light.

]]> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/03/14/is-animation-an-effective-tool-for-data-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-61602 Grep Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:27:26 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=676#comment-61602 I think some of the reason behind hesitating to use animation is the media. It has traditionally been hardcopy. But imagine simply information displays that use animation. I personally think they would be a world of help. In terms of the sciences, I think many have either misused or misunderstood the value of animation.

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