Gallery and Demo

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There are, so far, two sample Synesketch visualizations, based on psychology and color theories. We called them Hoovooloo and Synemania. Here you can find demo images and a video.

To check it out for yourself and visualize your own text, download a small demo application: Synesketch Empathybox. You can, of course, code/draw your own Synesketch visualizations by Processing, and it's very easy. When you do, present them here!

Synesketch Video Demonstration

Hooloovoo

Hooloovoo is a minimalist visualization inspired by minimalist art and artists such as Piet Mondrian. It is ironically named after a Douglas Adams's so-called super intelligent shade of color blue, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Hooloovoo visuals are a simple grid of colored squares. As the software interprates emotions in text, it changes Hooloovoo’s color palettes, saturation, size of squares, and frame rate.


No emotion	Weak disgust	Strong happiness

Hooloovoo's source code.

Synemania

The second Synesketch visualization, Synemania, is a generative painting system of imaginary colliding particles. It is inspired by the physics graphics created by particle accelerators. By moving, particles draw paths which form various visual patterns.

Colors and shapes of these patterns depend on the type and intensity of currently interpreted textual emotions. Each emotion type – happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise – correspond to one type of particles, and has its own color palette.

The Processing code of Synemania is based upon the Bubble Chamber, a work by Jared Tarbell.

Synemania source code.

Six images as a response to six basic emotions – happiness, anger, fear, surprise, sadness, and disgust (left to right, top to bottom)


Weak happiness	Middle happiness	Strong happiness	Extremly strong happiness

You can experiment with Synesketch, visualizing a wide range of texts – from everyday conversations to classical poetry. Images generated by Synemania are shown bellow. First section is a visualization of an everyday conversation, while the second one presents the famous last lines of the Auguries of Innocence by William Blake. Blake was both a poet and a painter, and also a person associated with synesthesia.

Visualising everyday conversations

Hey, listen what happened to me today!
I was riding a bike and I stopped to bye a book in a good little bookshop, the one next to the park...
When I went out to the street again, I was shocked: there was no bike!
I was MAD >:((( You know, I was really fond of that bicycle...
And then, all of the sudden, a good friend of mine jumped out of the bushes – with my bike!!!

Visualizing poetry (Auguries of Innocence by William Blake)

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye Which was born in a night to perish in a night, When the soul slept in beams of light.
God appears, and God is light To those poor souls who dwell in night, But does a human form display To those who dwell in realms of day.

Add your visualization

To create your visualization, download Synesketch, Processing and Eclipse, register to this wiki, and check out our examples and documentation.

Demo Application: Synesketch Empathybox

To try Synesketch out, download Synesketch Empathybox – a small demo application (executable jar file) for text visualization. While you type, animated images are being generated.

In order to start the demo application you need to have installed JRE 1.6 or later.