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Realtime Visualization Lab

A sandbox for live, interactive visualizations of system state.

Overview

A sandbox for visualizations that read live system state — data that changes continuously rather than sitting in a database.

Two running examples: Energy Flower (Finland's electricity grid, updated every three minutes from Fingrid) and the TWINTYPE elevator demo (four-role view of a facility system). Both share the same core question: how do you represent a live, multi-variable system as something a human can read at a glance?

What's being tested

  • Browser-native approaches to real-time data (polling, SSE) at different update cadences
  • SVG versus WebGL as rendering paths for animated system state
  • What level of abstraction is readable vs. what collapses into noise

Status

Running in parallel with the TWINTYPE engine work. Each visualization informs the next.

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