Kingdom Hearts Game Play Visualizations

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  Figure 1. Kingdom Hearts videogame traversal. 29 sessions over 20 days, 62.5 hours total. This visualization uses 22,500 frames. Detail (see full size image on Flickr).

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  Figure 2. Kingdom Hearts II videogame traversal. 16 sessions over 18 days, 27 hours total. This visualization uses 13,300 frames. Detail (see full size image on Flickr).

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  Close-up detail of Figure 2 (see full size image on Flickr).

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  Figure 3. Sampled frames from the video capture of the complete traversal (playing the game from the beginning to the end) of the videogame Kingdom Hearts (2002, Square Co., Ltd.). Detail (see full size image on Flickr). See the entire video animation on YouTube.

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  Detail of Figure 3 (see full size image on Flickr). See the entire video animation on YouTube.

Author

William Huber

Project Video

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Description

This project (2010) represents nearly 100 hours of playing two videogames as high resolution visualizations. This representation allows us to study the interplay of various elements of gameplay, and the relationship between the travel through game spaces and the passage of time in game play.

Analyzing the Visual Strategies in the Science and Popular Science Magazines, 1872-2007

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  Figure 1. Evolution of Popular Science over 125 years (1882-2007). Detail. See the full size image on Flickr.

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  Detail of Figure 1. See the full size image on Flickr.

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  Figure 2. All issues of Science magazine from the beginning of publication in 1880 to 1906. Detail. See the full size image on Flickr.

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  Detail of Figure 2. See the full size image on Flickr.

Authors

William Huber, Tara Zepel, Lev Manovich, 2010

Full Resolution Visualizations

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Description

This project explores changing strategies in use of images, layout, and content of two magazines: Science (1880-) and Popular Science (1872-). By arranging thousands of magazine pages into s single high resolution image, we are able to reveal gradual temporal changes over long historical periods.