Tools to access streaming vectors maps and data sources such as Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Google Maps, GeoData, StockMarket
...and a bunch of other stuff
Mosquito is a plugin suite developed for Rhino and Grasshopper. The plugin allows us to tap into social , financial and popular media. Extracting location, profiles, images and messages from Facebook,Twitter, Topsy etc….
As architects part of our responsibility is the consideration of the public realm. Today however , people tend to hang in the digital equivalent, namely, social media space. While this space becomes ever more permanent, the physical realm is fleeting, an evanescent space.
We are utilizing the tools in this component suite to bridge the gap between geometrics and information. Driving geometry with data and vice-versa. The ability to extract user Geo-coordinates, language, thoughts, profile and image enables architects to paint a picture. It is this 4-dimensional picture, which we refer to as “spatial condition”, that allows us to explore what happened yesterday, now and hypothesize about tomorrow. True 4-dimensional modeling.
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http://www.synthetic.space/synthetic/mosquito/
by Carson Smuts
there is a runtime error each time i run your example files
1. Solution exception:Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
i haven't tried other components. i'm currently trying to use a google image on my viewport so i can trace the map.
in case you wonder why i don't ask local goverment to give me their geo cad data is because they don't have detailed information, just road and districts, some buildings is not updated
i'm currently studying urban in my local area using parametric approach.
i'm using Rhinoceros3D 5 SP 7 64-bit
running on Grasshopper Build 0.9.0070
Carson Smuts
Try putting the Newtonsoft.Json file that was included in the Sonic components download in your GH components folder and if that does not work , put it in the Rhino.exe directory....
Then restart Rhino and GH and try again.....
Mar 27, 2014
Michael Dubby
Apr 8