notes.md

City visualization Notes

Blog post references

• Nobody else is doing data viz
  • http://www.wired.com/2014/12/oculus-rift-sundance-film-festival/
  • http://www.doclab.org/2014/vr-screening-room/

General Ideas

• What would the city look like at night without any lights?
• Weather/Sun conditions as a function of benefits vs. affordability
• Break buildings down into cubes or voronoi pieces and explode them?
  • weird/9-11
• Various icons at street level
  • points of interest
  • people (representing some density value)
• What can you see from here?

Police personal injury claims

• http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/104986136969/new-yorkers-file-an-average-of-ten-lawsuits-a-day
• call claims in 2013: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1P72s-Bq8ECEaSSRUSzvgglI3StyVhcSebnaEKEYz
• ClaimStat report http://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/claimstat/
• general crime map http://maps.nyc.gov/crime/

income data

• original census files on laptop
• incorporate census tract borders http://eric.clst.org/Stuff/USGeoJSON

Paris cameras

https://github.com/khris78/osmcamera http://paris.sous-surveillance.net/spip.php?rubrique1 http://paris.sous-surveillance.net/spip.php?page=cameras&format=jsonp&details=2&lang=en

Taxi data

• Random taxi for a day. http://nyctaxi.herokuapp.com/trip
• http://nyctaxi.herokuapp.com/

People and points around the city

• Red dots on a map https://gist.github.com/christophermanning/ac4c3265452529a20279
• Visualizing Algorithms (poisson disk, etc.) http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
• http://www.wired.com/2013/08/how-segregated-is-your-city-this-eye-opening-map-shows-you/

Weather

• Snow http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/snowfall/
• See Arkham Origins for ideas about snow on the ground
  • a local terrain map based on simplex noise
  • bump map of some kind. probably not necessary to draw on it as we move, but might be cool

Sky resources

Night/Stars

• https://www.google.com/sky/about.html
• NASA images http://www.sdss3.org/dr10/imaging/images.php
• Brightness of the night sky http://www.astropix.com/HTML/L_STORY/SKYBRITE.HTM
• A Physically-Based Night Sky Model http://graphics.stanford.edu/~henrik/papers/nightsky/nightsky.pdf
• high quality stars http://translate.google.de/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://zfx.info/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D11%26t%3D8

Daytime

• http://vterrain.org/Atmosphere/

Lighting

• Light Pollution http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/