“Slicer, or 3D Slicer, is a free, open source software package for visualization and image analysis. 3D Slicer is natively designed to be available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac Os x. The 3D Slicer (or simply Slicer) software was initially developed as a joint effort between the Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at the MIT AI Lab. The program has evolved into a national plattform supported by a variety of federal funding sources. This versatile research environment has resulted in a wide array of functionality, supporting a variety of medical imaging projects. Slicer is a “point and click” end-user application. Slicer is used as a vehicle for delivering algorithms to computer scientists, biomedical researchers and clinical investigators. Slicer is distributed under an open source license without a reciprocity requirement and without restrictions on …

Most interaction designers understand the concept of timelines and other time-based data. Blogs, calendars, and to-do lists are all examples of time-based data. However, if you are trying to fit 400 data points into a 1024 x 726 screen you’ll quickly see how challenging time-base data can be. Currently, many interaction designers are turning to visualizations to overcome many of the issues associated with this form of data representation. Below you’ll find a list of some of the best time-based visualizations on the web. Please use the comments section of this post to let the community know of any useful resources I’ve left out. Most of the descriptions below are taken from the developers of the example. Thanks, Max.

The Sputnik Legacy

The Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957 kicked of the space race. Since then mankind has sent more than 150 …

Are you looking to add the z-axis to your simulations? Well I’ve tried thinking in 3D, but it still escapes me. Box2D is an open source physics engine written primarily for games. As the name suggests, Box2D is a purely 2D engine. However, Box2D has grown beyond it’s humble box simulating roots, and can now handle convex polygons and other shapes coming soon.”

In this article I will try to summarize the basics of Ajax and PHP communication. At the and you can find a full working Ajax – PHP example.

Website: http://www.ajaxf1.com/tutorial/ajax-php.html

I started this blog around the same time AJAX was introduced by Adaptive Path’s Jesse James Garrett. At the time there were no out of the box add-on’s for blogs. Fortunately, now there are a plethora of plugins, source code, and tutorials designed for specific blog software. The following is a list of AJAX components you can add to WordPress, Expression Engine, and Moveable Type.”Please use the comments section of this post to let the community know of any useful resources I’ve left out. Most of the descriptions below are taken from the developers of the example. Thanks, m4x.

“Osprey is a software platform for visualizations of complex interaction networks. Osprey builds data-rich graphical representations from Gene-Ontology (GO) annotated interaction data maintained by The GRID.”Visit the website

Graffiti Archaeology is a project devoted to the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years. The photos were taken in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and other cities, over a timespan from the late 1990′s to the present. Using the grafarc explorer, you can visit some classic graffiti spots, see what they looked like in the past, and explore how they have changed over the years.”

AJAX techniques have helped Web developers create live applications within Web browsers. The AxsJAX framework helps inject accessibility features into these applications so that users of adaptive technologies such as screen readers and self-voicing browsers experience the same level of interactivity that is now taken for granted by users of Web 2.0 applications.

Website: http://code.google.com/p/google-axsjax/

“”Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph drawing has many important applications in software engineering, database and web design, networking, and in visual interfaces for many other domains. Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. It has several main graph layout programs. See the gallery for some sample layouts. It also has web and interactive graphical interfaces, and auxiliary tools, libraries, and language bindings.””Visit the website

The FutureBoston Competitive Edge Landscape is an experimental tool to explore the factors that make or break a city in today’s competitive global economy. It integrates data on economics performance, innovation, population, and quality of life to help the user see where and what is happening in the Boston region. This tool is a proof-of-concept. It is intended to demonstrate the early stages of what a more advanced tool could do, i.e., better understand the complex dynamics that effect people’s lives and help them make better decisions. “