INRIA / VisualSedimentation

Visual sedimentation is a novel design metaphor that progressively generates and updates visualizations of streaming data, inspired by the process of physical sedimentation. This process is the result of objects falling due to gravity forces, that aggregate into compact layers over time. The process is well understood since our environment is shaped by sedimentation: mountains, hills or rivers are the visible result of this long process.

VisualSedimentation

Visual sedimentation is a javascript visualizations library for streaming data, inspired by the process of physical sedimentation. This process is the result of objects falling due to gravity forces, that aggregate into compact layers over time. The process is well understood since our environment is shaped by sedimentation: mountains, hills or rivers are the visible result of this long process.

Ressources

• Introduction
• Examples
• Api references
• Publication
• Mailing list
• Roadmap and Todo
• News on Twitter feed

Browser Support

Visual Sedimentation is under developement process, actually we are not focus on a production version. The library work on last version of chrome and firefox.

Installing

Download the latest version here:

• https://github.com/INRIA/VisualSedimentation/archive/master.zip

Or, from the command line:

git clone git://github.com/INRIA/VisualSedimentation.git

When developing locally, note that your browser may enforce strict permissions for reading files out of the local file system. For example, you can run Python's built-in server:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 &

Once this is running, go to http://localhost:8888/.

To cite the project

@article{huron:hal-00846260,
    url = {http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00846260},
    title = {{Visual Sedimentation}},
    author = {Huron, Samuel and Vuillemot, Romain and Fekete, Jean-Daniel},
    booktitle = {{IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    pages = {2446-2455},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
    volume = {19},
    number = {12 },
    doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2013.227 },
    year = {2013},
    month = Dec,
}

Dependancy

Already included :

• jquery.js http://jquery.com/ Copyright 2010, John Resig Released under Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
• d3.js http://d3js.org/ Copyright 2012, Michael Bostock Released under BSD licenses.
• Box2DWeb http://www.gphysics.com Copyright 2006, Erin Catto Released under zlib License.
• Sizzle.js http://sizzlejs.com/ Copyright 2010, The Dojo Foundation

Licences

Visual Sedimentation is under CeCILL-B licence. "B" means BSD. Copyright 2013, by Samuel Huron & Romain Vuillemot :

• Licence text in french: http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-B_V1-fr.txt
• Licence text in english: http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-B_V1-en.txt

Forging

Visual sedimentation was forging inside :

• INRIA AVIZ team http://aviz.fr/
• IRI Centre Pompidou team http://www.iri.centrepompidou.fr/