Miarcel Salanthe created Webpages As Graphs, a visualizer applet that will turn any weblink into a graphic form. You can view the graph being plotted in real-time as little colored nodes branch out into snowflake-like patterns. Each color dot represents a certain aspect of the web structure, such as blue if for links, red is for tables, violet for images and so on.
Webpages As Graphs uses Processing, Traer Physics and HTMLParser. Salathe has also provided instructions on how to print out the graph into poster-size.
via PSFK.
Have a look at our own "snowflake"
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| Image created here. |
Here is the link to my personal choice blog post:
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Lab D4
Coooooool. I have learned about so many things (which I previously had never heard of) in this ALES204 class.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought this was just a picture of a cool design. I can't believe how much this class has done in cyber space. And it's pretty!
ReplyDeleteI never thought that there were so many creative ways to represent technological data! I didn't realize how much of an impact our blog was making and how much we are doing!
ReplyDeleteI never imagined the impact that our class could have, and how much I would learn about things I didn’t know, I didn’t know. The tools and skills I have developed in this class would have been so helpful earlier in my degree; I really wish I had taken the opportunity to take this class earlier on. But as they say: better late than never. I am sure I will use this information in the future outside of school anyways.
ReplyDeleteI learned so much from this class. I just wish-just like Bailet Smith, that I had taken it earlier. I had a presentation to do today, which i did using prezi, and my professor was impressed! I was so happy! and who knows, i might get brownie points for only using pictures instead of words on my slides ;) I just finished my reflective post last night, and while writing it, I realized how many times I have used the knowledge learned from ALES without realizing it. After today's class, it got me wondering-how good, and beneficial is social media really? You are putting most of your personal information online for everyone to see, and you're also losing that personal touch. Will people slowly forget face-to-face communication and rely solely on online chats? Will we all lose the ability to maintain a "traditional" conversation without having to rely on cellphones, or the internet? These are things that got me thinking after today's class-which I probably would not have even thought about without ALES 204. So yeah, this class is pretty amazing!
ReplyDeleteSo many cool ways to show trends and connections made on the web...it really illustrates the power of social media. Having a Biology background, this image reminds me of an evolutionary tree!
ReplyDeleteThis "Snowflake model" is fascinating! Wow, I did one for my blog too, and its incredible. It would have been neat to do one on the very first day we opened our blog, and compare it to now. I am sure it would show great change--just like what has happened to me over the course of this class. I have experienced change in the way I perceive the internet, and social media. Definitely improved my outlook on it. Thanks Dr. Laccetti for revamping ALES 204!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting way to depict the activity of our class blog. I don't think that I have ever seen anything like that before. I agree with Laura that it would have been cool to compare one from the beginning of the term to what it is now. Or I wonder what it would look like if this was a full year class?
ReplyDeleteI've never seem the snowflake model before. It's fanscinating, and just when I thought there was nothing else I could learn, I now know what a snowflake is! ALES 204 had been fanscinating, thank you!!!!
ReplyDeletepretty interesting, I saw what my blog looked like using this appliation
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