R Scuti

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Silvia Laurentiz ◽  
Loren Paneto Bergantini ◽  
Sergio Venancio ◽  
Bruna Mayer ◽  
Miguel Alonso Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Sound Patterns ◽  
Present Text

R Scuti is an audio-visual installation that proposes the transposition of astronomical data into an exhibition environment, using star observation records from AAVSO database. The collected information, which corresponds to more than a century of observations, were digitally converted to sound patterns that materialize through cymatics on a water surface. This surface receives a light focus, which reflects the moving waves and creates luminous patterns on the room's ceiling. The present text acquaints the concept, creation details, and contextualization of R Scuti in the scenario of poetic data visualization, which took shape in this project from the interdisciplinary dialogue between art, science, and technology.

scholarly journals A Study of Big-Data-Driven Data Visualization and Visual Communication Design Patterns

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Weiming Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
New Media ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Logical Relationship ◽  
Visual Communication Design ◽  
Technology Intelligence ◽  
Communication Design

This paper provides an in-depth study and analysis of big-data-driven data visualization and visual communication design models. The characteristics of new media and the definition of traditional media are analyzed; the importance of the new media environment is derived through comparison; and the successful cases of new media integration today are analyzed. In this process, we will optimize the traditional science and technology intelligence service model, optimize the various components that make up the science and technology intelligence wisdom service, achieve model optimization and reflect the four characteristics of science and technology intelligence wisdom service, and reconstruct the science and technology intelligence wisdom service using the literature research method. The design based on imagery schema theory is manifest, inclusive, and somewhat innovative and at the same time has a high degree of consistency and internal logical relationship with the visual representation of multidomain heterogeneous data at the cognitive level and displays purpose. This internal logical relationship is systematically organized and deeply analyzed, and the methodology from subpattern extraction and visual interaction design to the deep integration of visual representation is proposed in combination with specific application scenarios and cases.

scholarly journals The Soviet Center of Astronomical Data

1982 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
O. B. Dluzhnevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Considerable Experience

On the basis of the current French-Soviet cooperation in science and technology, the Astronomical Council of the U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences and the Strasbourg Center signed in 1977 an agreement on setting up the Soviet Center of Astronomical Data as its filial branch. The Soviet Center was created on the basis of a computation center at the Zvenigorod station of the Astronomical Council of the U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences, which had already had considerable experience of working with stellar catalogues. In 1979 the Center was equipped with a EC-1033 computer.

scholarly journals On Designing Machines and Technologies in the 21st Century. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
Dirk Söffker ◽  
Jutta Weber
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Autonomous Robot ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Is an autonomous robot, designed to communicate and take decisions in a human way, still a machine? On which concepts, ideas and values is the design of such machines to be based? How do they relate back to our everyday life? And finally, in how far are social demands the guideline for the development of such innovative technologies. Using the form of a dialogue theoretical, ethical and socio-political questions concerning the design of interactive machines are discussed especially with regards to the accelerated mechanization of our professional and private life. Developed out of an Email dialogue and further elaborated the discourse spanning from engineering to research in the field of science and technology deals with the question, if the men-machine relationship changes.

scholarly journals Designing with Publics that Are Already Busy: A Case from Denmark

Design Issues ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-20
Author(s):  
Andreas Birkbak ◽  
Morten Krogh Petersen ◽  
Tobias Bornakke Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Recent Attempt ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
Design Workshop ◽  
Design Objects

Design research has recently turned the attention to how designers contribute to the organization of publics when designing objects. This also raises the question of what kind of “good” public is being pursued. In this article, we argue for the importance of taking pre-existing normative projects into account to avoid approaching publics as yet another instantiation of “users” of design objects. We develop the argument by discussing our recent attempt at designing an online data visualization tool for public use. Instead of inviting potential future users of our tool to a design workshop, we decided to adopt an ethnographic interest in the existing “goods” that guided the publics for which we wanted to design. Based on explorations of three sites, we found our publics to be already busy with concerns that were both highly relevant to the data practices we were trying to facilitate, while at the same time overflowing and provoking our framing of the publics we were attempting to engage. Drawing from work in Science and Technology Studies on multiple ways of “doing good” in practice, we propose a reconsideration in design of the publics that we hope to “spark into being,” by pursuing the question of how to design with rather than for publics that are already busy.

Data visualization: A unique storyteller

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-279
Author(s):  
Xiaoxu Dong
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Information Transmission ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Traditional Stories

Abstract Science and technology have changed all aspects of our lives, including the mode of narration, from traditional stories to data stories. Storytellers have been integrating visualizations into their narratives. From the case studies of some artworks and our students' works to visualization research, we have found distinct genres of narrative visualization and the education method for university students. We describe the differences between these artworks, together with interactivity and information transmission. Some small experiments and some examples of students' works will be shown to explore the visual narrative. We suggest new design strategies including how to make invisible things visible.

Spectrophotometric reductions with an IBM 1620

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
P.-I. Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Spectrophotometric Data ◽  
Electronic Computers ◽  
The University ◽  
Near Future

Nowadays more and more of the reductions of astronomical data are made with electronic computers. As we in Uppsala have an IBM 1620 at the University, we have taken it to our help with reductions of spectrophotometric data. Here I will briefly explain how we use it now and how we want to use it in the near future.

Desiderata in connection by the calibration of the MK-system

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 348-349
Author(s):  
Th. Schmidt-Kaler
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Magnitude ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Stellar Systems ◽  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Intrinsic Colour

This is only an informal remark about some difficulties I am worrying about.I have tried to recalibrate the MK system in terms of intrinsic colour (B–V)0and absolute magnitudeMv. The procedures used have been described in a review article by Voigt (Mitt. Astr. Ges.1963, p. 25–35), and the results for stars of the luminosity classes Ia-O,I and II have been given also in Blaauw's article on the calibration of luminosity criteria in vol. III (Basic Astronomical Data, p. 401) ofStars and Stellar Systems.

Laboratory Simulation of Lunar Luminescence

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 441-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Geake ◽  
H. Lipson ◽  
M. D. Lumb
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Laboratory Simulation ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
Luminescent Spectrum

Work has recently begun in the Physics Department of the Manchester College of Science and Technology on an attempt to simulate lunar luminescence in the laboratory. This programme is running parallel with that of our colleagues in the Manchester University Astronomy Department, who are making observations of the luminescent spectrum of the Moon itself. Our instruments are as yet only partly completed, but we will describe briefly what they are to consist of, in the hope that we may benefit from the comments of others in the same field, and arrange to co-ordinate our work with theirs.

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

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