So next week, a new happy chapter begins in my life after eight months of uncertainty. The good news has already given me so much energy again to be creative and productive, both at work and at home.
One new project... www.echotap.com was announced at Flash Forward 2003 as the home base of my Flash Communication Server experiments, and I will post the complete source code and documentation for my Flash Forward conference next week. Thanks to Media Temple for their support.
Another new project... This webpage will be redesigned too. In addition to the RSS blog feed, I plan to make available a Flash implementation of treemap visualization of my blog using the Squarified Layout algorithm. Right now, the prototype works, but the recursion isn't very efficient. I first learned of treemaps from Dr. Mirel's Info Visualization course during grad school at the U. of Michigan. Over a year later, I went back to read those research papers again to study the math, and also began studying the Java Library of different treemap algorithms made available at U. Maryland HCIL. Sometime in April, I'll post the source code and references to the research papers from the U. Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab and Eivond University. You can learn more about treemaps by googling the keywords "treemap history" and clicking on the HCIL webpage.
Posted by samuel at April 4, 2003 09:38 PM