Our Roadmap to Creative Thinking

The AlloSphere indeed provides a compelling interactive, multimodal environment for a new type of interdisciplinary research that, from the start, tightly integrates quantitative and qualitative approaches to problem solving and discovery. It also offers a unique opportunity for experiencing—using all of our senses—how complex systems unfold over time. We have begun to uncover common themes in how these systems are described in terms of computational constructs and how they can be represented in terms of beauty and symmetry. Our challenge and opportunity in composing beautiful visualizations is thus to strike a balance of both ma....