This isn't truly 3D, but a few years back I found that TouchGraph's open
sourced implementation (a few versions back from their commercial
implementation) was tremendously helpful in building visualizations of
complexly-connected data in space. We used it to provide visual
demonstrations for some of our work on the EdTags recommendation system.
It's browser-based, which means that it has more limited performance (I
found that it maxed out around 250 highly connected nodes). And it takes
some programming chops to get it set up.
http://www.touchgraph.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/touchgraph/
http://edtags.org/getting_started.php
-- S
Seth Battis / http://battis.net / seth@battis.net / @battis / (323) 638-7384
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a program/database that represents records as objects
> located in a virtual 3D space, with the XYZ position of objects being
> determined by attributes of the records represented by the objects.
>
> The reason for this?
>
> Imagine if every student could interact in 3D with their own data set of a
> collection of objects representing a school's curriculum. See more on this
> idea here: http://eva2.wikispaces.com/A+New+Operating+System+for+School
>
> Fred
>
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