Okay its been like a week since i last updated this but have had some serious commitments! Anyhow now im back and its time to kick bottom! My organism project is coming along swimmingly, time for a quick update!

Firstly :

We found some live, changing xml data! This was proving to be a bit of a problem as most xml sources consist of text rather than values, until I remembered the arch-os data! This takes data from Portland Square on the University of Plymouth campus, relevant to network traffic, the visual camera systems and other data sources!

Info on this can be found at http://www.arch-os.com.

The raw data can be seen here:  http://arch-os.scce.plymouth.ac.uk/xml_data.php?source=all_vis.

Secondly:

Deciding on a graphical interpretation of this data in a truly artistic form! This was relatively simple as Chris Speed really liked an image of concentric circles we presented a few weeks ago! Now just to represent this in processing. Could be a while til this is perfect!

Thirdly:

Processing, a week ago this would’ve seemed alien to me but after a week of a back engineering, playing around and many hours spent looking at the reference section on the processing website things are finally making sense! I can finally load the arch-os, Portland Square, into processing!