Interesting Data Visualization: Radiohead’s “House of Cards”

A great song and a fabulous video. Check this out:

On top of the video being just really cool, the information on how it was made is also pretty engaging. It’s available at code.google.com, and you can actually get some of the source, too. Though it appears that the actual visualization used in the video was made using Processing, the point cloud data has also been used to make a 3D data visualization app built in Flash that allows you to rotate the nodes that comprise Thom Yorke’s visage around on the stage. Very cool stuff in general. Procedural animation FTW! Definitely worth reading up on.