Tuesday, February 19, 2008

3D data in Second Life

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="511" caption="Stock prices imaged in three dimensions in Second Life"]Sock prices imaged in three dimensions in Second Life[/caption]

A  linking project between web page information and a solid representation in SL. Good example of web scraping process which could be applied to a wide variety of things.
"The script in SL pings a web-server every minute. That server scrapes both the google stock market data for current prices, and the yahoo pages for historical prices, does some fancy footwork and returns the values to be plotted. The script takes that return and converts into these bars"

http://eloisepasteur.net/blog/index.php?/archives/114-Stock-market-prices-Histogram.html

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