A 3D data visualization of the financial flows at the ETH-Zurich university. Developed back in 2003 for an immersive virtual reality installation. Programmed in OpenGL. Each particle (coined here as info-ticle) represents 10,000CHF. The visualization shows the source of the money (e.g. investments, third-parties), what is spent for (e.g. salaries, resources), and how the total financial budget is distributed over the 7 difference university departments. A timeline reveals when money was taken away and redistributed to other departments. The timeline can be animated forward and backward over time, causing the particles to retrace their historical paths in space.
