Data Visualization and Remixing - Radiohead and Google
July 14th, 2008 by Randy Riddle
Rock group Radiohead recently teamed with Google to create a music video using a new technique. The video was created without using cameras; instead, 3d laser scanners, similar to those typically used to input objects into CAD or 3D software, captured the images used in the video.
The resulting data set, consisting of “points” that outline the objects, was used to create the video. Google is making the data available on their website so that fans can create their own visualizations and share them on YouTube.
You can read more about the effort and see a “making of” video or download the data set at http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/. You can also use an online viewer to manipulate the the data from one “frame” of the video in different ways and make your own visualization.
