What is Forest and the Trees about?
Forest and the Trees is a blog – focusing on Flash and Data Visualization – from Doug Marttila, a Lead Developer at Visual i|o.
‘Why another Flash blog? Well, this one’s going to be on data visualization - basically fancy interactive charts and graphs made with Flash.
Why charts and graphs? […]
1) Combine today’s computing power with the new pixel-level control (getPixel, setPixel) of Flash 8 and advanced statistical analysis in order to gain a better understanding of color palettes.
2) Streamline the time-consuming process of manually creating palettes by automatically analyzing and reducing the hundreds of thousands of colors found in preexisting art work, down […]
‘on an instrument you start from one tone. in painting you start from several. thus you begin with black and divide up to white - the first unit, the easiest and the most frequently used one, hence the best understood. but take as many units as there are colors in the rainbow, add those made […]