Interfaces, Spaces Between
Continuing from the layer perspective and the house level view, here I played with the street level view. Inspiration:
My brief: For the street level, let’s explore taking a OpenStreetMap view of a street, and then converting it from the top down map view, to the idealised, hand drawn version with inputs and outputs.
Continue reading “AquaSavvy: Street flow Sankey”Carrying on from the Layered visualisation, I started playing with what a house level, or street level visualisation could look like. Some inspiration off the web:
Inspired by Fil’s Layers Perspective, as well as this papercraft calendar. The idea is to be able to isolate some elements, and then see how they relate.
As part of thinking through the AquaSavvy tool visualisations, I revisited an idea from a loooong time ago (2018) that was part of the inspiration for AquaSavvy.
As an exercise, I’m not sure how this would make it into the AquaSavvy tool as is. I had to do a lot of wrangling with Claude, that I don’t think a layperson could or would want to do. It’s fine for the project to do this for our selected sites, but as a global tool meeting people where they are, I don’t know.
Continue reading “Cape Town sewage flows”Note: This is part of the active AquaSavvy project. We’re prototyping ideas for rending the data into the visualisation tool.
The conversation started with “How can we visualise our emotions and responses to water?”
Continue reading “AquaSavvy tool ideas: Emotion map”More playing with Claude. The idea is to create a “home” to play and build on, ala sim game (ideally, Godus like) that is based on topography of the physical world.
The pipeline now goes: draw a box over your chosen area – the starting point at the moment is São Miguel island, Azores → fetch real elevation → click a contour ring to set the coastline (doesn’t have to be the actual coastline… rediscover Atlantis 🙂 ) → carve.
An important point is the idea is to be inspired by physical reality, not tied to it. Part of this is the “sculpted, not surveyed” nature of the renders, so it sometimes has artefacts. That’s intentional.
It’s still very buggy, of course, but check it out!
Continue reading “Build your own floating island”The idea is to have stuff happen in the three.js scene – like rain falling when you click the cloud, and then that updating in the Sankey diagram below that (see the mm increasing). It’s not much yet and meaningless at this point, Sao Miguel is also “sculpted not surveyed” which is an interesting approach I may explore more intentionally, but it’s not bad for about 2 hours of playing over the weekend. Damn, AI is scary.
This is a draft Notice of Intent to Apply (NOI)2 for the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) 2026 International Joint Initiative for Research Harnessing Disruptive Technologies to Address Global Challenges1
Continue reading “The use of disruptive technologies towards improving the functions of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR).”We are a collective, using digital technologies to address the challenge of interacting with complex knowledge ecosystems. We use people-centric technology development to empower informed, accountable action from the bottom up. Using digital hyper-connected, integrated technologies – what we understand as the Metaverse – potentially gives grassroots initiatives the ability to contribute to the growing integrated knowledge ecosystem – the Metaverse as an ecosystem – and thereby scale their efforts and networks globally. We are looking for consortium members to pursue research funding, or strategic partnerships with companies interested in the commercial potential of these approaches. Please find some use cases below with more information. We also welcome anyone to join the journey; find us on Discord – the Open Metaverse Interoperability Group (OMI) (website: omigroup.org/) or email me at bernellev@gmail.com.
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