ICCARUS

Last week we decided that we’d like to enter the uber-cool Webjam competition that was being held in Perth for the first time. We didn’t just want to show Scouta, because we see it every day. We wanted to show something we thought was super-cool.

A couple of extra screen captures are in my Flickr stream, and a screencast is being developed.

We came up with the idea of visualizing Scouta’s activity in 3D. So Simon spent part of the weekend hacking together ICCARUS: Interactive Command Console and Relational User Statistics (a name we tried to make as dry and boring as possible, so it would contrast the actual application).

Last night we presented ICCARUS, and it won the event! Below is the video of the presentation.

I’d personally like to thank Simon! It was his insane coding skill that made it all possible.

Also a big thanks to Lachlan Hardy, Lisa Herrod, and Tim Lucas for bringing Webjam across. And Myles for the effort on this end.

And a big thanks to Adobe for the prize of CS3.