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http://smashingpicture.com/ PoD | March 29, 2012 | By SP “This photo came out from a night of shooting at Teide, the vulcano of Tenerife (Canary Islands), biggest mountain in Spain.” By Andrea Auf dem [...]
Projects fail all the time, usually resulting in one department blaming another, who then ends up blaming a vendor, who then usually blames the software. After the dust from the blame game settles, everyone goes back to work on a new project without examining the project management process and management that caused the failure – so they fail again. To help fight this vicious circle, there is design thinking. I came across a blog post from ZDNet by Michael Krigsman that talks about how design thinking can help break this cycle of fail, blame, restart. What is Design Thinking? While there is no one definition of design thinking, it’s a mindset of values that applies both analytical and creative thinking towards solving a specific problem. http://blog.mindjet.com/2011/12/design-thinking-fight-complexity-and-failure

Design Thinking: Fight Complexity and Failure | The Mindjet Blog

3 Dimensional Fractals and Years ago, many fractal enthusiasts viewed these intricate and majestic patterns and thought "Wouldn't this be incredible in 3-D?". Dozens of methods have been developed to view fractals in an arbitrary number of dimensions. Quaternions are 3D shadows of 4D Julia Sets, which, if sliced in a plane, reveal the corresponding 2 dimensional Julia Set.

Patterns of Visual Math - 3 Dimensional Fractals & Mandelbulb

http://www.miqel.com/fractals_math_patterns/3d_fractals_mandelbulb.html
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?p=644

Information Visualization Manifesto

Over the past few months I’ve been talking with many people passionate about Information Visualization who share a sense of saturation over a growing number of frivolous projects. The criticism is slightly different from person to person, but it usually goes along these lines: “It’s just visualization for the sake of visualization”, “It’s just eye-candy”, “They all look the same”. When Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas wrote about Vernacular Visualization, in their excellent article on the July-August 2008 edition of interactions magazine, they observed how the last couple of years have witnessed the tipping point of a field that used to be locked away in its academic vault, far from the public eye. The recent outburst of interest for Information Visualization caused a huge number of people to join in, particularly from the design and art community, which in turn lead to many new projects and a sprout of fresh innovation.