Visualization et al.

This joint adventure with graphic design studio FBA. has been sitting in the closet for more than a year, and recently started bearing fruits. It resulted in a tool that helps designers build visual artifacts to use in book covers design. The tool parses a text and exhibits its most frequents words, enabling the designer [...]

In this work the traffic of Lisbon is portrayed exploring metaphors of living organisms with circulatory problems. Rather than being an aesthetic essay or a set of decorative artifacts, my approach focuses on synthesizing and conveying meaning through data portrayal. This portrayal is embodied in the visualization: The Blood Vessels in the traffic of Lisbon. [...]

The Morphing City is a visualization study where a city mutates its shape accordingly with the traffic on its main arteries. Those morphs tend to traduce the actual perceived distances within a city, bypassing the common perception based on its geographical mapping. This visualization model was executed for the city of Lisbon. To attain it, [...]

This work extends and refines the latest Visualizing Empires Decline — the decline of the largest maritime empires of the 19 and 20th centuries. A more sober and formal approach. The physics engine was tweaked in order to attain fluid interactions and a mitosis like split. Added the original 13 colonies (USA). Added Ireland. Cuba [...]

This post presents several experiments (piked between a total of more than 20 generated artifacts) that map 1534 vehicles, during October 2009 in Lisbon, leaving route trails and condensed in one single day. The artifacts are animations of traffic’s evolution in Lisbon during a fictitious 24-hour period (from 0:00 to 23:59). Below are the three [...]

Sync/Lost is an immersive installation that I designed and developed during my internship in Brazil. The concept work is from 3bits. SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds. The project’s objective is to create an interface where [...]

I’ve decided to start experimenting on text analysis. As a starting point, the analysis itself is very raw — I limited myself to analyze word frequency in the text. The text chosen was a very well know Portuguese epic poem — Os Lusíadas. I chose this poem mainly as a provocative towards what it seems [...]

Almost about a month ago I made a small audio reactive composition that tries to attain visual richness through a simple concept like brownian motion. The piece was wrote with a particular soundtrack in mind — Kriespiel by Patrick Wolf. As the composition reacts to any audio input, its feeling and timing might not be [...]

This is an experiment with soft bodies using toxi’s verlet springs in Processing. The first idea was to visualize the decline of the maritime empires. Along with that came the idea of fluid and timeless boundaries, and thus some kind of soft bodies dissolution. Those are some screenshots displaying the springs in the system. In [...]