Gallery and Demo
From Synesketch Wiki
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!
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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.
| 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
Visualizing poetry (Auguries of Innocence by William Blake)
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.


