Surf the Web!

Okay, this isn’t strictly mathematical art, more of data visualization (some of that is math anyways).

This installation was created by Norimichi Hirakawa as a way to visualize Internet data. The map of data of internet sites is sent in ‘waves’ which people can then literally surf in.

According to the site description, it says

“…We interact by using all parts of our body with data-wave in this installation. The data that is browsed as contents in original way are loaded as only a enumeration. And familior display of browser become some abstract texture of wave. Then, next URL floating among the data-wave is selected by some condition of wave. And the data will surge against us as wave again. we can only play in the facing wave…”

Pretty nifty idea, if you ask me. Not much math (though the field of data visualization is dominated by math), but still cool nonetheless.

Hat tip to Wayne, whose blog I read a lot