Skip to main content

Real Life Tweet-o-Meters Now in the British Library

By british library, growing knowledge, Tweet-o-Meter 2 Comments

We are pleased to announce that our analogue tweet-o-meters have gone from a mere concept to fully fledged art deco style working versions.

On display in the British Library, as part of the Growing Knowledge Exhibition, the meters reside on the wall next to the Microsoft Touch Table. Detailing the level of tweeting in 9 cities (San Francisco, New York, London, Moscow, Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and New Delhi) around the world the exhibition is well worth a look, its free and runs until 16th July 2011.

Thanks go to Ben and Steve of CASA here at The Bartlett, University College London, for their work on the project, we are biased, but its outstanding.

You can see the digital Tweet-o-Meters here.

Architectural Visualisation in Crysis (The Engine)

By Architectual Visualisation, cryengine2, Featured Game Engine, Game Engines 11 Comments

Vladymi, an architect from Ukraine, got in contact to let us know that as a result of some of our blog posts he has decided to move almost entirely to game engines for visualisation.
His current ‘engine’ of choice is the CryEngine2:

Vladymi makes the point that such engines allow A0 size renders in seconds and export movies at above HD resolution in near real-time. The work load is also minimal in importing models, whats not to like?
See the ArchMod site for more details.

Architectural Visualisation in Crysis (The Engine)

By Architectual Visualisation, cryengine2, Featured Game Engine, Game Engines 11 Comments

Vladymi, an architect from Ukraine, got in contact to let us know that as a result of some of our blog posts he has decided to move almost entirely to game engines for visualisation.
His current ‘engine’ of choice is the CryEngine2:

Vladymi makes the point that such engines allow A0 size renders in seconds and export movies at above HD resolution in near real-time. The work load is also minimal in importing models, whats not to like?
See the ArchMod site for more details.

Bike-o-Meter Now Without Paris/Dublin/Brussels/Valencia/Seville/ Vienna and Toyama

By Brussel, city cycle, cycle hire, Dublin, Paris, Seville, Toyama, Valencia, Vienna One Comment

The world of data is changing, vast amounts of free and open data are enabling innovative visualisations. Our new Bike-o-Meter could be seen as a case in point, it provides at a glance a view of how bicycle rental schemes in cities around the world are performing. It even allows you to view the percentage of hire bikes that would need to be redistributed to balance each scheme and here may lie the problem – it allows under performing cities to be clearly identified using their own data.

Sadly a number of cities, run by a common provider, have requested that we no longer use their data, stating use protection under the harmonised sui generis database right, as provided under Directive 96/9/EC: Chapter III Article 7 (1) and (2).

Below is how the Bike-o-Meter used to look:

We are of course happy to accept the request and as a result Paris/Dublin/Brussels/Valencia/Seville/ Vienna and Toyama are now sitting with empty dials. This is disappointing to say the least, we would be happy to add these cities back in but as ever with data its down to the providers…

Got a view? #bikeometer on Twitter.

Close Menu

About Salient

The Castle
Unit 345
2500 Castle Dr
Manhattan, NY

T: +216 (0)40 3629 4753
E: hello@themenectar.com

Archives