Universal Translator

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Can you picture it! Well google are probably well on their way developing it, but I want to share more doodles and ideas on this blog more.



Won't it be brilliant to use this as an app on your phone, or automatically detect a langauge from a sender then automatically translate it to the language you understand in their reciever. It cant be far away from development.

There is voice to text search app from google on my android htc, i'm sure there is text to voice that I hear students playing with on the mac with it. I can appreciate it probably takes a lot of servers to manage with the global population wanting to converse and communicate in their own lanaguage to other businessmen.

If you take the shannon and weaver communication model diagram of 1949 was... the noise in the middle would be the server translating and detecting idioms (uk an example would be: dog and bone, or up north: put wood in 'oil) and dialects.

Example:

English Voice to English text - server translate text (like at this site on toolbar) - Japanese Text to Japanese Voice

I admit the text to voice convertor might be limited in its translation of tone of the message from intonation of speech and inflection that comes from the rubato of spoken word. Maybe in time it can measure the pace, the raise in volume, the length of pauses, irony, but for now the nearest we can get to word for word meaning would be excellent.

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Published on 2010/10/14 1:26 pm.
Filed under: 3g, collaborative, communication, computer mediated, generator, global, gps, gsm, interactive, language, meaning, mobile, narrative, sound, voice

Cartographic Shapes

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this is a great application for facebookm, called Geo Challenge. helps you learn your countries/geography starting off with just the shape and fading in the ajoining/nearby countries to help you realise the paticularly country. they have a round for flags, and cities (usually guessing myself) placing where they are on the world map.

great game and great tool for learning. it helps me with my pathetic knowledge of world geography/cities, although i'm not that bad at flags.


also look at this noisy britain - ben terret excellant post by strange maps.

Published on 2008/11/24 12:40 am.
Filed under: carto, cartogram, cartography, country, flag, form, geography, global, graphic, knowledge, language, locations, map, perception, shape, territory, world

Green Motion Map





Interesting animation, in the form of conceptual map in motion. The look is very "plant". This idea seems really interesting, ie, staging and movement of a map heuristic through video. I do not know of any software Mind Mapping, which proposes to export the map in animated form or video.

found here: http://www.heuristiquement.com/2008/08/plante-gode-la-carte-en-mouvement.html

Great to see it animated as i noticed it and catalogued a post card advertising it in a notebook that i created when visiting paris back in jan/feb. Featured on page 30 here:

http://issuu.com/visualthinkmap/docs/paris_notebook_visual_diary/30?zoomed=true&zoomPercent=125&zoomXPox=0.9993006993006993&zoomYPos=0.19980314960629922

Or view my notebook here:



Get your own - Open publication


My drawing is quick just to capture great works to remember and be inspired by. loved the drawings of Alfred Kubin, especially Auto Contemplation.


found here:
http://eltiodelsaco.blogspot.com/2007/07/alfred-kubin.html



Published on 2008/10/11 1:02 pm.
Filed under: animation, clean, drawing, geographic, global, graphic, kubin, nodes, non linear, notebook, representation, tree, visualisation, wordless, world

UK Brands 2007 Visualisation

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Top 10 UK Brands 2007 Visualisation
Originally uploaded by visual think map
This was to visualise the top brands spatially and who owns them/other brands they own also. I started off with well known brand portfolios to visualise them like colgate palmolive but had no direction. So found this top ten list for 2007, and worked from here.

http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2007/01/top_ten_most_po.htmle

I liked the vector curved lines like with Maeda's Key magazine covrer post. kept to a soft blue, red pastel palette so you can really visualise the brands and their order, arrangment, ownership.

Was inspired by a car badges brands visual:

coolinfographics.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-owns-car-compan...

featured here: visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APho...

Published on 2008/07/03 4:49 pm.
Filed under: architecture, brand, clean, colour, communication, designs, familiar, framing, global, graphic, language, looking, mapping, representation, spatial, spider, universal, visual maps, visualisation

Evolution of Life Visual

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Origin & Development of Life Visual
Originally uploaded by visual think map
Following on from Watch the Evolution Design post this info - graphic map elicits great visual thinking.

It has so much detail charting life evolving on land, in water against a geological timeline with such subtle pastel colours, little line illustrations & sharp pink sectioning, similiar form to the Liverpool Map. It is brilliant.

It appears on p.32 of the Unknown. (1993). Times Atlas of the world (concise edition) 6th Ed. Hammond World Atlas Corporation. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic of reference publishing around the globe. The acknowledgements section gives picture credit to "Encyclopaedia Universalis".

Encyclopædia Universalis is published in French (by Encyclopædia Britannica) and the current edition has been hailed as an irreplaceable reference. One of the distinguishing features of this set is its intelligent structure. With more than 18,000 bibliographical notes, 50,000 entries, and 280,000 references, the 4-volume Index is the master key to this work. The 23-volume Corpus, with more than 6,000 in-depth articles on various subjects covering nearly every field, can be considered a summary of all knowledge.

It has more than 4,000 world-renowned authors, and with these vivid info graphics, they literally bring to life every topic engaging readers and explaining more complicated topics.

Source: http://eb.com/Product_EU.htm
Image: Steve M, cheers.

Published on 2008/06/08 11:15 am.
Filed under: communication, composition, creative, diagram, function, geographic, global, harmony, illustration, information, innovative, knowledge, sublime, time, visual thinking, white space, world

Internet Undersea Map

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TeleGeography create these brilliant visual map's with subtle colours and stimulate our thinking with clean, clear info graphic pye charts.

TeleGeography's innovative approach to cartography distills complex data sets into attractive posters for hanging on your wall. All maps measure approximately 37" x 51" (0.9m x 1.2m) and are printed on highly durable synthetic stock called Yupo, that is much more durable than traditional paper.

They have a more detailed map of the underground cables in this Submarine Cable Map 2008. The latest edition includes information for over 120 submarine cable systems, including major systems that are in service as well as announced cable systems expected to join a reinvigorated cable market. All data contained in the map is drawn from our Global Bandwidth Research Service, their definitive guide to the supply, demand and pricing of international bandwidth.

The map contains nine informative graphics that describe the state of the submarine cable market including a depiction of how capacity is used on the trans-Atlantic route. The connecting lines are lovely and organic almost hand rendered as was with Key Magazine Cover by John Maeda

They also have made maps for,

European Terrestrial Networks Map
Global Internet Map
& Global Traffic Map

Internet Undersea World Map seen here thorugh guardian:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg

Bigger version here:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2008/02/01/SEA_CABLES_010208.pdf

Source: Teleography.com - Submarine Cable Map 2008. Internet Stats from: InternetWorldStats.com

Submarine Cable Map seen here:
http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/index.php

Brilliant.

Published on 2008/05/29 11:58 pm.
Filed under: clean, colour, communication, creative, designs, diagram, geographic, global, graphic, information, internet, map, topographic, visual, world

The Whirl - Ways of Meaning

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Watch 'The Whirl' clicking here
(video was embeded but but was slow to load)

Why visual language can help us deal with the information age.

He talks about some of the cognitive challenges of the information age, and why visual language is an important tool for dealing with them. Also talking about how information is non linear today, hence visual maps of non-linear information connected in multidirectional, interdisciplinary, 'open' meanings of communication.

Take the cadburys gorilla, is there a meaning?

http://www.davegray.info/2008/04/11/the-whirl/

Published on 2008/04/17 8:36 pm.
Filed under: global, language, meaning, non linear, phonetic, symbollic, visual, visual thinking, ways of working