Interesting project - as Adrian said, it would be useful to get more information.
One of the easiest ways might be to use Flash - it has a straightforward drawing api, and can read XML files as input. The output could be made interactive very easily. An interesting new option would be to use Javascript and the new Canvas tag in a browser - you could use John Resig's Javascript port of Processing: http://processingjs.org/ Alternatively you can use PHP or Python to generate static bitmaps from the data, using a library like imagemagick. 2009/8/11 Adrian Howard <adri...@quietstars.com> > Hi Ian, > > On 11 Aug 2009, at 04:44, ian Carr wrote: > > hi, I am a researcher at the London College of Communication working >> on a information design project. >> >> I am have come up with a range of different graphical concepts( >> designed in adobe illustrator) but I am struggling to make them >> dynamic, animated and interactive. What I am looking for is a tool >> which will enable me to update a spreadsheet or data base and it will >> manipulate the graphics accordingly. >> >> Can you recommend any software or scripting that might help me, in >> fact any suggestion would be good? >> > > > It's hard to recommend anything without more of an idea of what you're > trying to do. > > Could you stick some stills up somewhere you can link to? > > Cheers, > > Adrian > -- > http://quietstars.com - twitter.com/adrianh - delicious.com/adrianh > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- http://formd.net ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
