Visual Databases

I had a brainstorm in the shower, where I do all my critical thinking; Are there neat ways to visually represent data in the web?  Webs have connective strings.  Databases have lots of data and have relationships. Families and friends have relationships and connections. Can I show family and friend relationships and connections visually, in 3D, on the Web?  I think so.

I've added a fairly simple project to my to-do-list: create a node-based, 3D representation of a database file.  I've got the visuals in my head: sprites and bursts, glowing connection lines; basic visuals to display a dynamic database.

Already started on the flow, database design, etc.  Looking good.

Forward Progress

Progress is being made despite the lack of updates on this blog. 
Creative: I've got my creaive juices flowing again and have come up with several creative projects ranging from stand alone, one-off character/creatures I'm currently in the middle of creating, to short stories, to game design concepts

Indie: The Indie group I'm working with is chugging along at a nice clip.  3D assets, concept art, code, animation; it's all moving along rather smoothly

Business: I have successfully finalized the interface/experience flow and hardware strategy plan regarding the render farm.  I've decided that I will stick to a purely CPU based farm until I can figure out a charge scheme on the GPU processing the GPU cards would give me.

From Bad to worse...

The trojan/virus/bot/whatever seems to have been taken care of.  However, I may now be dealing with what it did to my computer. 

Any time I now launch a memory or graphics intensive applications, I get a blue screen of death.  I'll try reseating my hardware components tonight in hopes that it was simply knocked loose when my cat knocked my entire tower off the side of my desk (it is now residing safely on the ground).