Over the Christmas break I've been working on some simple data visualisation using my Twitter data and Processing......]]> http://www.alistaircolling.co.uk/post/visualizing-twitter-in-processing/feed/ 0 http://www.alistaircolling.co.uk/post/quick-processing-js-post-and-toxiclibs-js/ http://www.alistaircolling.co.uk/post/quick-processing-js-post-and-toxiclibs-js/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:06:27 +0000 admin http://www.alistaircolling.co.uk/?p=714 20th November 2011

I've been doing a bit of Processing over the last year and went on a course at the V&A museum led by Karsten Schmidt who is one of the most inspirational creative artists/programmers I have come across. I've been meaning to post some of my sketches but will get around to that soon. I hadn't explored procesing.js at all as I really like coding in Eclipse and using Java with toxiclibs but when I discovered that Kyle Phillips had ported Karsten's toxiclibs library to javascript I was very excited (thanks Jer!).

Recently I created a project in Flex that needed to be deployed on Eyeblaster. Although Eyeblaster are soon to be offering Flex support this isn't something that's currently available and at the time I had to find a quick solution. Hopefully this might be useful to someone else who finds themselves in this obscure situation!

I recently completed a mapping project that had to be completely skinnable with custom tiles, markers and controls. After spending some time researching I decided to use UMap from AFC Components as this is a really flexible mapping component that is great to customise. The purpose of this post is to give an overview of some of the techniques I used to create a totally customised map.