Visualizing Viruses
Sunday, April 13, 2008 by zakai1369 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Happened across this and thought some here might find the results interesting.
"Most people want to avoid spam and viruses, which is exactly why MIT Media Lab's grad student Alex Dragulescu spins the net's detritus into art.
E-mail security company MessageLabs commissioned Dragulescu to visualize the threats the company finds in the 3 million messages it scans daily. Dragulescu used algorithms to find recurring patterns in the source code of viruses and Trojans and then fed the results into a visualization algorithm.
The only manipulation involved was color-coding, setting the virtual position of the camera, and some lighting effects. The project lives somewhere between pure art and information visualization, Dargulescu says."
Below is one of them. Others can be found here http://www.wired.com/politics/security/multimedia/2008/04/gallery_viruses?slide=1&slideView=10
"Most people want to avoid spam and viruses, which is exactly why MIT Media Lab's grad student Alex Dragulescu spins the net's detritus into art.
E-mail security company MessageLabs commissioned Dragulescu to visualize the threats the company finds in the 3 million messages it scans daily. Dragulescu used algorithms to find recurring patterns in the source code of viruses and Trojans and then fed the results into a visualization algorithm.
The only manipulation involved was color-coding, setting the virtual position of the camera, and some lighting effects. The project lives somewhere between pure art and information visualization, Dargulescu says."
Below is one of them. Others can be found here http://www.wired.com/politics/security/multimedia/2008/04/gallery_viruses?slide=1&slideView=10
Wizard1956
Reply #2 Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:14 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:14 PM
Nasty looking little beasts! Good thing I can type with rubber gloves on. Thanks zakai1369, my HP will have nightmares for sure. (
angus1949
Reply #4 Monday, April 14, 2008 10:26 AM
Reply #4 Monday, April 14, 2008 10:26 AM
Some of these were in the ST. Petersburg Times this morning. Man they would make great wallpapers.
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Reply #1 Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:57 PM