Are These Circles Moving? 6 Places to Find Amazing Optical Illusions Online
Ever since I was a little kid, I've adored optical illusions. Believe it or not, but 1993 found me browsing my parents' hefty Escher art book, looking for more and more drawings I couldn't quite figure out. This fascination continued through the famous Autostereogram era, when I learned to see those cool 3D images in seconds, becoming a source of jealousy to all my cross-eyed friends.
How To Easily Create Stunning Infographics Using Infogr.am
Infographics have become an incredibly popular way to display bite-sized bits of information in easy to consume forms of charts, graphics and more. It usually takes quite a bit of designer know-how, patience and some pretty pricey software to get the job done, but thankfully there are quite a few services that aim to make that process a little easier. We've already covered Ease.ly and Visual.ly. Now we're adding Infogr.am to the mix.
10 Of The Best Tools For Creating Infographics
The history of this visual science (or art) and tells us that infographics is by no means an invention of the digital culture. The only difference between then and now is the amount of information we are swamped with. Infographics gives us a tool to cut through the noise and into the meat. Patterns, trends, and relationships become a bit more understandable.
3 Neat Web Services To Visualize & Analyze Your Last.fm Profile
With over 215,000 plays starting since 2008, I've always been a firm believer in Last.fm. If you're into getting social on the Internet, it's so much easier to link a friend to your Last.fm profile versus going on and on about your musical preferences. Last.fm allows your tastes to be an open book to anyone who might be curious, and I like that. Over the past few years, Last.fm has solidified itself as the best music scrobbling platform online.
How To Visualize Ideas, Information & Data Using Sketchnoting
If you're a student or someone who takes notes a regular basis, you may be interested in a fun and even artistic movement called Sketchnoting. Sketchnoting is like notetaking, but it includes visual notes as well as words. It's a way of conceptualizing ideas, information, and other data on paper (or a digital tablet) beyond the traditional text medium of outlining. Sketchnoting, or visual notetaking, is for clustering information and capturing big ideas.
5 Coolest Places To Find Visualizations On The Web
About a month ago, someone contacted me about whether I wanted to publish one of their infographics on my site. Before then, I had never really had much of an interest in such visualizations of data. For those of you that are regular readers, you know we love infographics here at MUO. I mean, come on, who wouldn't love the Wrath of the Angry Birds infographic that Mark posted?
Instantly Visualize Data & Information With Google Fusion Tables
Whether you're putting together a report for work, or you just want to represent information on your blog in a graphical way, Google Fusion Tables can help. Google Fusion is actually a feature embedded into Google Docs, that lets you transform raw information that's stored in a tabular or spreadsheet format into a more visually appealing way.
5 Cool Chrome Browser Extensions That Help You Visualize Your Browsing History
You need your browsing history to go back to an important website and retrieve some information. Sometimes, your browsing history also tells you a lot about the quantity and quality of time you spend on the internet. Try out the following Chrome extensions that give you a visual picture of your browsing habits via your browser’s history.
BioDigital Human - An Amazing 3D Map & Reference Of The Human Body
Remember Google Body Browser? This used to be a very cool Google Labs project that let you view a 3D map of the human body and learn about it. Well, it’s gone now, such is the way of some Labs projects. The company behind it, Zygote, says that that it will release it as a full product. But that doesn’t mean you have to wait, because BioDigital Human is available right now, for free.
6 Free Apps To Try Out Augmented Reality On Your iPhone
Augmented reality is way cool. Using your camera, location and the right apps, it is possible to overlay useful, relevant information on top of live camera images to provide an enhanced view of the world around you. AR is set to become big business in the next few years, with more and more of us carrying potential AR units around with us in our pockets, everywhere we go.
5 Ways To See Your Facebook Friends On A World Map
Facebook is now the world’s largest social network with more than 500 million users worldwide. Even if you have a fraction of that geographical spread in your friend list, it really helps to locate them visually on a map. It’s not just a fun visual fun tool but has some practical uses too.