Visualization Design
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I've been thinking about how to handle the visualization for the ALife final project. There are a few different possible tools, and choosing between them may end up depending on what the visualization should look like.
Based on the way the model is set up now, each cell has to convey a whole lot of information: elevation and radiation which are (presumably) fixed; food (variable), and which agents of which species are present.
I was thinking possibly radiation would be color, elevation would be the alpha channel, with food and agents as shapes. But I'd love to hear other ideas, and if anyone has seen any models that convey this sort of thing well.
I would do elevation as color on brown scale like topo maps, food as green, radiation as an icon or badge on the cell -- we won't need it on every cell, high-radiation areas will be rare.
Agents should have icons (one per species)
Max
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On Dec 2, 2012, at 1:44 PM, David Masad notifications@github.com wrote:
I've been thinking about how to handle the visualization for the ALife final project. There are a few different possible tools, and choosing between them may end up depending on what the visualization should look like.
Based on the way the model is set up now, each cell has to convey a whole lot of information: elevation and radiation which are (presumably) fixed; food (variable), and which agents of which species are present.
I was thinking possibly radiation would be color, elevation would be the alpha channel, with food and agents as shapes. But I'd love to hear other ideas, and if anyone has seen any models that convey this sort of thing well.
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