Visual Data Reprahzent!

One of The Brain Tru$t's newest obsessions is the presentation of data in crazily beautiful complicated visuals. Take this 8 story high kinetic data visualization sculpture for example. This piece was made by Greyworld, a group of London-based artists, as a new symbol for the London Stock Exchange. It is called The Source. The piece consists of a grid of 162 cables arranged in a square.

The cables carry 9 spheres that are free to move independently up and down the length of 32 meters (729 spheres in total). The spheres act like animated pixels, able to model any shape in 3 huge dimensions. The form the sculpture takes and the motion it makes is determined by real-time stock exchange data. At the end of each day, the spheres fall into their resting place all while indicating with blue LEDs inside the balls whether the market was up or down that day. And in the next morning the balls reawaken as the market opens and again leave their cube formation to form relevant patterns. Via Interactive Architecture