Spatio-temporal Animations with Processing

As part of the Tracing the Visitor’s Eye project, I have been toying with Processing to produce animations from the spatio-temporal data set collected from Flickr.

A first animation reveals the tourist activity in Barcelona over 2006.
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Then, I tried to apply a skew algorithm (still not fully there yet…) to show intensity of the activity in 3D, here with the Tuscany region with the 2006 dataset.

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Relation to my thesis: In addition to R, I plan to use Processing to visualize the data of a couple of my current projects. The might be the opportunity to an exploration tool for the flickr (or any other spatio-temporal) dataset by integrating Processing with the NAVA Worldwind Java SDK.