Time Merge

As people make choices in life, trading off their time, energy and money, time is emerging as perhaps the most important commodity. Visualisation tools are becoming more sophisticated, so we're now able to analyse people's movements through time and space more effectively.

There's a growing trend in time-merge media, in other words, cool ways to manipulate spacetime:



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There are many applications of time merge media, from art installations to filmmaking to visualising user activity in websites. The consequences of different choices can also be observed, as in the video of one player's multifold attempts to reach the next level in a version of Mario World, depicted simultaneously.

For more examples, check out Kottke's post, or Split Screen, a blog dedicated to multi-layered visuals.