Jigsaw Image Mosaic (JIM Download pdf) , where image tiles of arbitrary shape are used to compose the final picture (tile configuration that minimizes a mosaicing energy function).

Recognizing Patterns (PDF)

Using 2D Space Effectively : (Lecture Slides )

Geometric Folding Algorithms : http://www.fucg.org/ (Linkages , Origami , Polyhedra )

Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication : http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/viscomtheory.html

6 illuminating concept maps : http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/01/6-illuminating-concept-maps-you-should-know-about/

(Fractal and) ZoomGrid philosophy; "a very complex object that can be generated through a recursive (iterative) process based on a simple generating rule ". Via

"Mapping from the margins” : http://www.huntalternatives.org/pages/397_rita_manchanda.cfm (mapping process as a catalyst for discussion and developing new understanding of conflicts; a vehicle for challenging state-centric representations of conflict and borders).

Visualization research team : http://www.qviz.org/contact.htm

Now that IE7 is out my pages are broken : http://www.bravenet.com/resources/newsletters/?newsletter=tips

DIGITAL CREATIVE MAP : http://www.mixedmedia.it/eng/map/index.html ARTISTS : AGON, AIEP Avventure in Elicottero Prodotti, Ennio Bertrand, Mario Canali, DotDotDot, LeftLoft, Limiteazero, N!03, Otolab, Claudio Sinatti, Studio Azzurro, TheBigSpace, 263 Films

Seamless tile tutorial - Photoshop

Animated image development : http://clicks.robertgenn.com/big-small.php

Digital poster printing for short runs : http://www.largeformatposters.com/

(Book Review) "King of Infinite Space": http://leonardo.info/reviews/feb2007/king_ryssen.html Donald Coxeter (the Man Who Saved Geometry)

Now featured (8 Feb) at 'Creative Mapping Project blog maintained by inIVA staff, educators, artists and academics' : http://creativemapping.blogspot.com/index.html

"Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age." - William Feather
“Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?” - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged." - Thomas Edison
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves." - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” - Wilhelm Stekel

Exploring novel visualisation for representing hierarchical numerical data (If Microsoft Word file unavailable - View as HTML )

COMPUTER-BASED APPROACH FOR TRANSLATING TEXT INTO CONCEPT MAP-LIKE REPRESENTATIONS : http://cmc.ihmc.us/papers/cmc2004-045.pdf (PDF) - View as HTML

"Is the Lower Mainland Going Under?" Map : http://sierraclub.ca/bc/programs/climate/goingunder/goingunder.kmz (Note that you must have Google Earth software to view this file. Download free software. ) Via

Boundaries of the Contiguous United States : http://www.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.html (Animated GIF showing the evolution of state boundaries)

Maps of The Future : http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/profecias/esp_profecia_mapas.htm

Cab Map : http://www.dcist.com/archives/2007/02/07/the_cab_map_new.php

Google Maps: Map World of Warcraft : http://borkweb.com/story/google-maps-map-world-of-warcraft (description) Guys at MapWoW have an Outland map as well.

ConflictCartography : http://www.viewcraft.com/pdfs/ViewCraft_ConflictCartographyMarch04.pdf

Create new widgets for other people to add to their layouts Via

More Map Art : http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2007/01/more_map_art.phtml Via

Reinventing the Inventor : http://www.thestreet.com/_htmlatb/smallbiz/entrepreneur/10334888.html

Shepherd, Cartographer, and Android : An exploration of the archetypes and technologies of spiritual direction

Web Biennial 2007 : http://www.webbiennial.org Open Call for Web Based Art (Submissions and exhibition Start: February 1st - End December 31 2007).

Great Map tagged here : http://www.diigo.com/user/marrinerh as concept internet map mapping mind web by marrinerh on 01-12-2007 Cached

Listen while you work

"Before enlightenment, chop wood!, after enlightenment, chop wood!" - Ancient Zen
"Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.” - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Literal, narrative, horizontal, cloistered, and verbal culture is being replaced by symbolic, interactive, profound, global, and visual culture." - Paul Martin Lester Via
"Once you accept the nos, the yeses will come." - Car Salesman
"Never take yourself as seriously as others are prepared to." - Charlton Heston

Visuals and Visualization: The Heart of Persuading Others (PDF) - View as HTML

A Hillclimbing Approach to Image Mosaics (PDF) - View as HTML (the Jigsaw Image Mosaic)

ka-Explorer : http://kappa.gonfi.org/dev/gonfi-ka-map/htdocs/index_routing.html (sample interface)

Turn laboratory specimens into award-winning art : http://www.the-scientist.com/news/home/43684/

Many of Buckminster Fuller's books are without indexes, and part of the original motive for The Fuller Map : http://www.nous.org.uk/BFMAPindex.html was to interconnect ideas and designs which were scattered throughout a series of books.

(Amateur Radio Club) RepeaterMaps : http://www.halifax-arc.org/harcweb/VHF-UHF-Proj.htm

HotorNot + Google Maps = Hot People by Zip Code

http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/PeaceMap/FlagOnMoon.jpg ----->>>>>>

Navigation : Then and Now

Nomograms for Wargames : http://www.projectrho.com/nomogram/

Conversionary Text to HTML Editor turns ebooks into websites. Via

How Rasterbator modifies the image uploaded http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/faq.gas

Interesting (Flash) tab-expansion menu system : http://www.imj.org.il/eng/shrine/

Classic 'schwitters collage' : Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948)

Thoughts on visual poetry : http://vispo.blogspot.com/

TV-Detox is a unique curated selection of the best and most interesting counter-information movies banned from commercial television networks. Via

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.” - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority...Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - Dr. Martin Luther King
"Be As You Are." - Sri Ramana Maharshi
"Work and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves." - Shakti Gawain

The magic of data visualization for everyone : http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007/01/the_magic_of_da.html Also see the visualization gallery

Facetmap : http://facetmap.com/ is both a data model and a software package, created to let users browse complex metadata while retaining a simple, familiar, menu interface. A fully annotated example of a facetmap.

Drawing Strategies (PDF) - View as HTML (100 drawing ideas)

Integration of Navigation and Action Selection Functionalities in ... (PDF) journal

Linux Distribution Mind Map : http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/04/linux-distributions-birds-eye-view.html sparks discussion.

Map out locations found in books on Google Maps : Bottom righthand column Via Also discussed here

Maps of the world : http://maps.nationmaster.com/ (3,728 country maps)

GolfCourseMap : http://www.ontgolf.ca/maps/gmapregions.php?regionid=9 and www.golf-finder.net/

Tibia Map Website : http://www.angelfire.com/games5/tibiamapsite/

A 'city' sitemap example : http://www.inventioncity.com/

Four Thoughts About the Map and the "Horizon" Problem

Calling all artists, designers, photoshop junkies, pixel pushers, collage artists, photographers, culture jammers, charlatans, and pranksters... the universe has invited you to kollabor8 (each chain is an open digital image mutation collaboration, displayed like threads in a forum.) Each link in the chain should be in some way a derivative of the previous image.

Mapwing : http://www.mapwing.com/ to turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments.

Listen to Learn

Now 'Vector One Top Picks' : http://geovisualisation.com/WordPress/

Dozens of people using this exact search to get to this page ????

“My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.” - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Artists are people who are allowed a certain social privilege to act out in ways that adults aren't supposed to act out." - Mike Kelly
"The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things." - Spinoza
"The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and feel it better." - Minor White
"If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone." - Alfred Korzybski, philosopher

Tag Maps : http://yahooresearchberkeley.com/blog/2006/11/16/tag-maps-generating-the-crowds-mental-map-using-flickr-geotagged-images/ Visualizing the Crowd’s “Mental Map” Using Flickr Geotagged Images

Image Zoom Forums : http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/forums/ (Image Zooming extension for Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird)

Connecting Virtual Worlds: paradigms for on-line transitions (PDF) - View as HTML (Systems and their zones of influence come into conflict at site boundaries.)

Interactive Poster: Trend Analysis ...Screening Data Using a Distortion-Oriented Lens with Semantic Zooming (PDF) - View as HTML

Effective use of tag sizing : http://strangewondrous.net/browse/author/w/

AnaximanderMaps : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander (First?) Map of his Known World, and Map of Anaximander's universe.

War of 1812 : http://www.visit1812.com/historic-sites/

StripClubMap : http://stripclubmap.com/maps/utah.htm

Processing, mediation, archiving and publication of works of media art and media theory : http://media.lbg.ac.at/en/content.php?iMenuID=9

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) : http://www.gimp.org/ is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring (works on many operating systems, in many languages).

Second Life (posts with the 'mapping' tag ) : http://www.3pointd.com/index.php?tag=mapping

The State Of The Map : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/The_State_Of_The_Map
OpenStreetMaps Conference, Manchester, 14-15 July 2007

Examples of art incorporating applications of mathematics : http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/mathematics.html

This artist built this online painting generator (?)

(Book) ‘Maps and Dreams’ (1981): Hugh Brody charted the hunting grounds of native Canadians; it turned out, that hunting was not so much influenced by territorial conditions but by dreams forecasting good huntings. See research questions.

"I just do what I do. It's you who calls it music." - John Cage Via
"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator." - Robert Orben
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." - Ansel Adams Via
"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model." - Vincent Van Gogh, painter
"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the most important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you." - Georgia O'Keeffe

MAP THIS! GPS MAP VIEWER FOR PSP : http://www.neoflash.com/compos.htm http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/images/map1.jpg (short video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nitCHViaCU) first public release of the viewer was to NEO summer coding contest 2006.

www.hpcc-usa.org/pics/01-pres/HPCC_Dorohovich.ppt (Powerpoint) - View as HTML... (Plant seeds for change & grow/mature your KM program as organizational culture is ready to take larger steps).

http://www.programmableweb.com/api/YouTube/mashups (YouTube meets Google Maps) ProgrammableWeb API Detail. A real estate listings service that streams videos of properties on sale inside Google map.

Friend Map : http://www.frappr.com/?a=constellation_map&mapid=1563476 has interesting "Add Yourself" functionality.

inIVA : http://www.iniva.org/ creates exhibitions, publications, multimedia, education and research projects ...

Remapping the Universe (Video) multi-touch driven computer screen. Via

'The New York Times ran an article on "Mind Mapping" software last March. My interest in the article related to how teams of investment analysts could use visual cues and maps to better collaborate by improving organization and access to information.' : http://roer.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/09/test_mind_map_o.html

It's not a game (tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine ).

(Interesting approach) Find Me A Map - post your requests and replies here.

The End-User Manifesto Via

Protecting your PC from three serious Internet risks

RedActiva : http://www.redactiva.org/sitemap.html 'Maps visualization and workshops for citizens involvement in territorial thematic' (Barcelona, Europe Contact: alexhache2002@yahoo.es ) Via http://www.euromovements.info/english/who.htm

(eBook) 'Heretics' by G. K. Chesterton : http://www.pos1.info/h/heret.htm#1_0_21 " A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything."

(Most? of these) Blog entries heavily favored here : http://www.technorati.com/faves/Vathek

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra
"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it." - George Orwell
"I have come this far and done this much. I will do no further on this path. There is a point beyond which the quest for the Light becomes a serving of the Dark." - Guy Gavriel Kay, "The Fionavar Tapestrrry"
"Don't learn safety rules by accident." - Yarn
"The only wealth which you keep forever is the wealth which you have given away." - Anonymous

Rethinking maps and national boundries : http://vodkapundit.com/archives/007367.php (Mexican Border) Via

THE HUMAN KNOWLEDGE MINDMAP (PDF) Via interesting search

The Perspectives Browser: Exploratory Data Analysis for Everyone ( PDF) - HTML-Version

Earth Change Maps : http://www.baproducts.com/ecmaps.htm : Ashton Pitre's Map, Aron Abrahamsen's Earth Change Map, Dolores Cannon's Nostradamus Map , and Chet Snow's Map . Lori Toye 's I Am America Six Map Scenario and a map of her Golden Cities. Via

ShipWreck Map : http://www.mapbureau.com/shipwrecks/index.html

Blog Flux MapStats : http://mapstats.blogflux.com/demo.html (results of site traffic on GoogleMaps)

(European) Map blog : http://www.tecnomaps.com/

MultiMap example in use.

(Google Video) Posts tagged with "interface" : http://my.opera.com/usability/blog/index.dml/tag/interface

3d Stereograms : http://www.softsource.com/softsource/stereo.html

YouTube edition is a google maps + youtube mash-up that allows you to dynamically explore the videospace of the world : http://www.earthalbum.com/youtube

Lies, damned lies, and Jerusalem’s borders (http://www.ogleearth.com/) the border as drawn by Google Earth is several orders of magnitude less precise than the convoluted course it actually takes...

James Koehnline has made his massive collection of stunning collage-works available for viewing at deviantART.

Border, Rule, and Ornament Fonts : http://www.fontcraft.com/scriptorium/bordfonts.html

How To Remove Red Eye in Photoshop • Removing Red Eye from Digital Photos

Sacred Geometry as the Keys to personal growth and Understanding (A class of seven evenings will take you through the 5 Platonic Solids that make up our universe.)

Sample online dream log : http://downlode.org/log/Dreams

This blog is a resource for (GEOG 318) Geographical Information Analysis : http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz/courses/318/labs/

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann
"Ideas won't work unless YOU do." - Yarn
"Freedom must be the same for all, for the strong as well as for the weak". - head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land Via
"Every path hath its puddle." - English Proverb
"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die." - Daniel Burnham (1846-1912), architect and city planner