1. Case 1Text and Image in the Shahnameh MDST 3559: DataestheticsProf. Alvarado03/22/2011

2. Business Mid-term issues?

3. Review http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Dataesthetics_S11/archives/269

4. Overview Complete work from last week Begin unit on visualizing text Content: The Shahnameh Form: The Image Grid

5. Query Strings HTTP’s URL syntax allows for key/value pairs to be appended to the end of a URL http://foo.com/bar.php?x=10&y=blue Question mark (?) begins the query string Keys and values separated by equal signs (=) Pairs separated by ampersands (&) Spaces represented by plus signs (+) Query strings are like arguments for pages that have code (like PHP pages)

6. The Shahnameh The Persian “Book of Kings” The national epic of Iran Written in the late 10th and early 11th centuries by the poet Ferdowsi Recounts the stories of 50 monarchs (including 3 queens) over a period of 20 centuries Includes the pre-Islamic, Zoroastrian period

7. The Garrett Collection A collection of manuscripts

8. Cultural Analytics Lev Manovich Big Humanism Visualizing large collections of images Use of the “image grid”

9. The Image Grid

10. Conceptual Spaces What do the directions mean?