M.O.N.E.R.A.

. . M.O.N.E.R.A. is a new way to visualize Twitter information using an organic metaphor: each tweet is represented by a bacteria inside an ecosystem and each species represents a topic. New information is acquired dynamically by Twitter API which makes the environment live and unpredictable. . The project was developed as part of the Information Visualization class lectured by Prof. Gudrun Klinker, TU München [1]. It was built upon the ideas of Carolin Horn and Florian Jenett in the project Anymails [2] (www.carohorn.de/anymails) and Ben Fry in the work Organic Information Design [3]. The illustrations of the creatures come from the book Kunstformen der Natur by Ernst Haeckel, about which I posted a month ago. The project was programmed using Processing [4] and it is using twitter4j to access Twitter API [5]. The engine is based on Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman [6]. . You can see the version it will be presented on the show room “ITüpferl” from Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik at TU München here: http://www.filipecalegario.com/monera_itupferl . Or you can see the version on OpenProcessing site: http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=6261 . References: [1] Information Visualization SS2009 – campar.in.tum.de/Chair/TeachingSs09InfoVis [2] Anymails – www.carohorn.de/anymails [3] Organic Information Design – benfry.com/organic [4] Processing – processing.org [5] Twitter4J – yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j [6] Nature of Code – shiffman.net/teaching/nature