{"id":66,"date":"2004-05-12T22:35:34","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2005-08-17T22:35:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T12:35:55","slug":"musicplasma-the-music-visual-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Musicplasma &#8211; the music visual search engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicplasma.com\">a site you have to check out!<\/a> It&#8217;s a search engine showing links between musicians. the interface is great! it displays results like a 3D fly-through so you get the sense of being inside the data. The site is called musicplasma &#8211; you just enter the name of a musician or band and up come the results, along with all the other musicians that have been associated with that band. It&#8217;s real six degress of separation stuff \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The interface looks as though it owes something to an early alternative interface design called <a href=\"http:\/\/mappa.mundi.net\/maps\/maps_018\/index.html#hotsauce\">HotSauce, developed by Ramanthan v. Guha<\/a> while he was at Apple Research in the early-mid 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/hotsauce.gif' alt='Hotsauce interface' \/><br \/>\nAn example of the HotSauce interface<\/p>\n<p>Guha&#8217;s aim was to produce a feeling of flying through the data stream to provide a visual representation of web pages in space. I remember having a go with it &#8211; must&#8217;ve been about 1996 &#8211; when a version was released in MacFormat magazine on a 3.5&#8243; floppy disk. It was great fun, but I found it tricky to get back to places I&#8217;d been to once I&#8217;d flown past. Somehow HotSauce never quite caught on, but it clearly laid some important groundwork for data visualisation and interface design. The latest iteration of Guha&#8217;s concept is actually quite useable &#8211; check out <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.map.net\/cat?ap=0;ms=10;\">Map Net<\/a> which uses more of a terrain metaphor. It is certainly easier to become oriented in the information. Guha is a technical adviser on Antarcti.ca &#8211; who have developed the map net technology.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is a site you have to check out! It&#8217;s a search engine showing links between musicians. the interface is great! it displays results like a 3D fly-through so you get the sense of being inside the data. The site is called musicplasma &#8211; you just enter the name of a musician or band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-new-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}