Animated Chart
The achievement of modern science and technology - animated diagrams. Researchers at MIT have developed a way to display the activity on the interactive animated graphics. Studies have shown that they are much more informative than static diagrams. Perhaps in the future will be animated diagrams commonplace any presentation. Group led by Professor Francis Lamb (Francis Lam) has developed two interfaces: «Seascape» and «Volcano», which demonstrate that the animation is well suited for displaying various types of data, for example, data on the behavior and actions of users as well as the various types of social activity.
In the motion of objects in the diagram encrypted information about the social activity of users. The project goal is to make "decrypt" animation was as simple as possible. Thus, each square in the information flow - is a particular thread. Its size depends on the topic (the total size of letters). When the mouse cursor on the trade shows in its name. Speed represents the activity of the subjects (number of letters), and the amplitude - the difference in dates between the letters in the chain.
If you click on the box, the theme is revealed on screen in the form of circles show individual users who participate in the discussion. The rate of Brownian motion of circles on the screen also symbolizes the activity of users.
The problem of such diagrams is that it is necessary to establish generally accepted standards for the generation of animated diagrams.