slideshows with advanced effects, automatically synched to the background music... stylish but maybe not the best way to show pictures... but stylish for sure

Michael Chang, the guy who wrote the Fidg't visualizer (aka Amorphic)

"tree accesses the source code of a web domain through it's url and transforms the syntactic structure of the web site into a tree structure represented by an image. this image illustrates a tree with trunk, branches and ramifications."

waw ! "graph of your listening habits"

"Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on."

"An automated classification into clusters or sub populations with related musical genres reveals the structure of musical preferences among the users in a relatively large sample population."

how often a word appears on twitter

Aggregates and merges your contacts from various "networks"... web2.0 communities or IM

"an algorithmically generated visualization based on statistical information provided by Last.fm software, more particular every song listened to by a particular user over an 18 month period of time."

"a collection of mathematical & algorithmical computation demonstrations, as a new resource for research & education. all applications can be run fully interactively with a free player, while the source code is open & accessible."

geographic area represents estimated size of membership

flight404's magnetosphere coming to iTunes !

"On the map, white dots represent individual blogs, sized according to number of links."

"a simple clock design based on depicting the length of circle arcs. available as a free screensaver application."

"we provide the following list of the top ten worst graphs in the scientific literature. As these examples indicate, good scientists can make mistakes."

msnbc rss feeds screensavers

"Capturing from a live network interface, or from a saved trace file, bsod visualises the flow of network data between hosts, providing (at a glance) information about network usage."

Network Traffic 3D Visualization