Joshua Davis et al - Amalgamatmosphere
Joshua Davis , the well known and respected designer/coder created a Carnivore client alongside Branden Hall and Shapeshifter.
The client, named 'Amalgamatmosphere' listens for activity on certain ports on the various computers attached to the network. This allows it to distinguish between systems being used to send/receive email, those being used to surf the internet and those that have become idle.
This information is displayed as a series of coloured circles, interconnected by various lines which are dependent on the network connections being made by those systems. Each activity is associated a colour and a sound, which is displayed/played on screen.
The sound generated is affected by the on screen position of the circle representing that particular system.
Like the Active Metaphore client, Amalgamatmosphere seeks to make the invisible network data itself part of the visuals, rather than merely using it as a back-end source of data.
Once again using a Mac in the studio has prevented me from viewing the client in action! This client, it seems, needs to run in Classic. Yet the Mac OS won't let me access it as it seems not to have been assigned a systems folder - I guess that means that it hasn't been included on the disk image used to format these machines.
I actually thought that this one would work as it as an offline demo of the full application, using text documents rather than live data from Carnivore itself to simulate how it works when installed on a network.
The client, named 'Amalgamatmosphere' listens for activity on certain ports on the various computers attached to the network. This allows it to distinguish between systems being used to send/receive email, those being used to surf the internet and those that have become idle.
This information is displayed as a series of coloured circles, interconnected by various lines which are dependent on the network connections being made by those systems. Each activity is associated a colour and a sound, which is displayed/played on screen.
The sound generated is affected by the on screen position of the circle representing that particular system.
Like the Active Metaphore client, Amalgamatmosphere seeks to make the invisible network data itself part of the visuals, rather than merely using it as a back-end source of data.
Once again using a Mac in the studio has prevented me from viewing the client in action! This client, it seems, needs to run in Classic. Yet the Mac OS won't let me access it as it seems not to have been assigned a systems folder - I guess that means that it hasn't been included on the disk image used to format these machines.
I actually thought that this one would work as it as an offline demo of the full application, using text documents rather than live data from Carnivore itself to simulate how it works when installed on a network.
