Mycelium, a simulation of fungal hyphae growth using images as food, must have a killer algorithm behind it, because the images it can render have more soul behind them than other tracing algorithms I’ve seen:

The COP15 logo (United Nations Climate Change Conference) is terrific. It was built with a program that adds “dynamic, real-time movement to the logo and takes the rigid grid of the logo and animates it with a series of parameters like flocking and flow fields.” I’d embed it, but the videos look better in context.

An oldie but new to me. Ben Fry created a fantastic animated visualization, The Preservation of Favoured Traces, showing how The Origin of Species changed with each edition. Watch it unfold, mouse over sections to read (which the zoomed-in view color-coded as well). (via flowingdata)

Anita Lillie has a demo video up of her masters thesis, MusicBox, a very impressive project for mapping and visualizing music collections by a combination of their metadata and acoustic fingerprints (also on YouTube, in HD). Further proof that all the cool kids are using Processing these days. Slick, I love the idea of drawing a line through the music map and getting a playlist that smoothly transitions through musical styles and genres. Doesn’t sound like it will be available for download anytime soon, though. (via hackszine)