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The “TreeMap” plugin

A bit of history

How many times it happens to you to have few space on your hard disk and to want to know which are the folders that take most of the space? You would surely have liked a tool able to visualize these informations in a way easily understandable. Right for this task, in 1990, a professor from University of Maryland, Ben Shneiderman, created the TreeMaps. The TreeMaps show data with rectangles with areas proportional to their value and with background colors.

Here is a nickel new jQuery plugin that will allow you to show TreeMaps on your site starting from datas in a simple HTML table or from other sources too.
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DONNAèWEB 2009, 7 nomination, 6 sites, 5 categories

Roll Multimedia Design at Donna è Web!

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The jFlip plugin

Playing the building – An installation by David Byrne.

Today I’d like to talk about a topic that is not inherent to our work, but Roll blog is also a window on the outside for Roll’s People.

I’ve decided to talk about Playing the Building -an installation of David Byrne – that is placed in the RoundHouse Cafè in London, maybe because i’m a crazy fan of Talking Heads.

David’s idea is pretty strange and mad, but certainly fascinating : a building become a music instrument.. and i think that Byrne did it!

He attached to an old organ, set at the center of the Roundhouse, a series of cables and wires attached to the building’s pillars and beams. Then he puts metallic elements that vibrate and resonate in response to the organ keys. And now the building is ready to compose melodies!

There’ll be also jam sessions with Orphy Robinson, Leon Mitchner and Dj Walde on 13, 20 and 27 August. Evrybody can bring his instrument (only acoustic) and take part in an improvised session.

If someone have the possibility to go in London in these days i think that is not a bad idea to visit the RoundHouse.

For more info visit davidbyrne.com/playingthebuilding