The Invisible Light
04/01/2009


Data Visualization of Network Traffic Around You. Human eyes can only perceive a small range of electromagnetic waves - the visible light, while others remain invisible to us. This project is to visualize the invisible light in the air around us - the wireless network traffic.


Built with Processing & Carnivore



Yellow IP IP address of my laptop
White IP IP addresses that I communicate with
Google.com: 66.102.7.236


Each color line is a "packet"(web data unit) transmission. The application shows live animation of data being transferred.



The center node of the circle is the router of Art Center wireless network where laptops online send/receive "packets" from it in order to talk to outside network such as google, amazon or simply send files to the local printer.   



Visual Experiments in Processing.



My Sketches from notebook.