For our client GEO we made a graphic which was published today (Jul 23, 2010). It shows an imaginary continent that would exist if all land mass was squished together parallel to the equator and then sorted by surface type—forests, grasslands, farmland, cities, among others.

For the surface type, we used data from the GLCF and then applied our own projection method after adding some sorting algorithms to it. So again: thanks to ActionScript and AlivePDF!

For our infographic about the election of Germany’s President, we decided to show a large set of numbers as small circles. Basically, the size corresponds to “number of members” (empty ones are zero). The example shows three years, and the grouping works as follows: the different colors are different parties—left wing, major parties and right wing are distributed from left to right. The innermost circle visualizes the number of members who are in the Bundestag. The surrounding circles show, how many delegates are from the 16 German States (in the original context, there’s a legend that helps the viewer to allocate each State).

Those people vote for one of the candidates for the German Presidency. Read even more about the whole graphic on our main website.

The newest customer magazine from PricewaterhouseCoopers features two Infographics made by Golden Section Graphics. One of them consists of a world map which uses the Fuller Projection, a.k.a Dymaxion Map.

If you cut the map out and glue the edges together, you get a nice paper globe.

It’s surrounded by lots of triangles, each one representing a nation of the world. Inside each of those triangles, there is a small bar chart with five bars. The values are different indexes on sustainability, like energy efficiency and carbon footprint.

Both the map and the triangles are generated with AlivePDF, the ActionScript 3 Open-Source PDF Library. The vector graphics were then processed in Adobe Illustrator.

This projection is based on the equirectangular projection, meaning that all areas between earth’s 360 meridians and 180 latitude circles are displayed as squares equal in size. But, in reality, the corresponding area near the equator is different to one near one of the poles (at the poles, it’s actually triangles). The Schwochow-Blickle Projection shows this fact with the squares getting smaller towards the poles, which are arranged on two lines parallel to the equator at the top and the bottom.

This was generated with a simple word map that was converted to a PDF with Adobe FlashBuilder and AlivePDF. No manual aligning and/or scaling done here!

Without the space in between the squares, one gets this picture:

Hi there, and welcome to the website of the fibonacciLAB!

We here at Golden Section Graphics set up this establishment to have a place where we can experiment with new ways of showing information or even invent some methods. This is our attempt to gain access to and keep up with the newest media that provide global distribution and interaction possibilities. For this, we have the proper tools and a broad experience in visualizing information. In combination, this will generate convenient creation processes we are seeking.

One can create wonderful things through coding. In many cases, an interactive and animated infographic helps explain one’s idea better than a static one. Also, there are many other purposes for smaller apps, like processing complex data we then use in our print products. We intend to develop the applications for tomorrow’s sophisticated users (you) who are using the ever improving devices.

Eventually, we post some of the results on this site, hoping for your opinions on design, usefulness and—ultimately—potential. Saying this, we want to invite you to this discussion. Let’s talk about what one can do with the stuff coming out the fibonacciLAB‘s E-flasks!

Greetings from Berlin!

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This was made with Mathieu Badimon’s FIVe3D.

For visualization demonstration purposes only. The represented data does not convey any meaning.

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This was made with Mathieu Badimon’s FIVe3D. For the plane I wrote a drawRoundRectangleComplex method.

For visualization demonstration purposes only. The represented data may be incorrect.

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This was made with Mathieu Badimon’s FIVe3D. For the plane I wrote a drawRoundRectangleComplex method.

For visualization demonstration purposes only. The represented data may be incorrect.