Mike and I have been working on this all week, and it's time to let people see it.
Hopefully the site is self-explanatory, because now I have to work on all the things I wasn't working on so we could get it out there!
[...] http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/2007/08/15/oakland-crimespotting/ [...]
Posted by Travel Time Tube Map - visualstyle.ru on 21 August 2007 @ 6am
I saw this just as I was looking to move to Oakland!
Why did you guys choose to start with Oakland? Because someone lives there? or because Oakland provides ample crime? :-/ heh
Posted by Justin on 31 August 2007 @ 9pm
Mike lives right by Lake Merritt, that’s why he started scraping the data. Then it was just a case of (re)presenting it in a way we were happy with.
Posted by TomC on 1 September 2007 @ 12am
[...] We finally kicked Twitter Blocks out of the door yesterday. It’s been in development for about a month, mainly by Ryan Alexander and myself (but all Ryan whilst I was working on Oakland Crimespotting, he’s a star). It’s the first time we’ve done 3D things using Flash and it’s amazing what’s being done with Papervision3D at the moment. On the other hand, having 3D shoe-horned into the 2D Flash engine means the learning curve is a lot steeper than the native-3D Processing/OpenGL worlds Ryan and I are used to. [...]
Posted by Random Etc. : Blog Archive : Criticism for Twitter Blocks on 2 September 2007 @ 2am
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