{"id":12538,"date":"2007-10-30T22:29:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/10\/flare-data-visualization-tools-for-flash.html"},"modified":"2007-10-30T22:29:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:29:43","slug":"flare_data_visualization_tools_for_flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/flare_data_visualization_tools_for_flash\/","title":{"rendered":""Flare" data visualization tools for Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, by “flare” I’m not talking about the shiny crap<\/a> pinned to my old Olive Garden waiter’s getup.  (I lasted 10 days or so before taking my butt to a dotcom.  The horror<\/em>…)  The Flare visualization toolkit<\/a> is a set of Flash ActionScript classes for building “a wide variety of interactive visualizations,” including basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more.  Check out the cool demo<\/a>, making sure to hit the Smoke & Distortion tabs at the bottom. [Via Mark Baltzegar] <\/p>\n

Seeing these visualizations, I’m inspired to wonder (again) how we could leverage Adobe Bridge’s support for Flash-based UI to present data in more interesting ways.  A SWF running inside Bridge can display any format for which Bridge can generate a preview (as Bridge creates a JPEG cache for each file).  Flash-based apps like Retrievr<\/a>, the Related Tag Browser<\/a>, the 3D-ish TiltViewer<\/a>, and many others demonstrate novel ways to connect a rich interface to a database of images.  Hmm… if you have any thoughts, let ’em rip. (It’s times like these I wish I could code my way out of a paper bag.) <\/p>\n

For more inspiring visualizations, see VisualComplexity.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hospitaliano<\/a>!,
\nJ. (retching) <\/p>\n

PS–As I was typing this entry, we got rocked with a nice California earthquake<\/a>.  Nothing like having all your worldly possessions (including yourself) getting bounced around to put things in a little perspective. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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