Flared Music is a simple Flash visualisation which shows relationships between musicians as stored in the BBC Music / Musicbrainz database. It is intended to be both a useful means of graphically exploring this huge dataset, and also an example of how to write a visualisation application in Actionscript 3 using a BBC data API and the Prefuse Flare visualisation library.
To see the visualisation and read about how it was created please visit the project page.
Please let us know what you think of the visualisation using the comment form below.
Hi,
Nice example! I did something very similar a year ago. A visualization that connects artists and bands related to common collaborations in albums, other bands, etc. I did this visualization with http://thejit.org , which is a JavaScript Toolkit for creating visualizations, the demo is here:
http://demos.thejit.org/example/hypertree/example1/
By clicking on a node that node is centered and more information is retrieved. I hope you like it, it also uses the Musicbrainz database.
Cheers!
Thanks Nicolas, I love your hypertree example!
Andy
This is one of the better things come out of backstage using the musicbrainz db. looking forward to seeing what else you come up with. I think I’ll have a look at the code you’ve supplied and see if I can do something with it.
thanks
phil