{"id":1082,"date":"2025-10-06T17:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:26:51","slug":"third-place-at-gd-contest-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/2025\/10\/06\/third-place-at-gd-contest-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Place at GD Contest 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>George, Luke, Alma and Daniel, with partners from the University of Cologne, designed and created a visualisation for submission to <a href=\"http:\/\/graphdrawing.github.io\/gd2025\/\">The 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mozart.diei.unipg.it\/gdcontest\/2025\/creative\/\">Creative Topic<\/a> challenge. Of twelve submissions, they achieved third place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge was to create a visualisation for the German science fiction show <em>Dark<\/em>, visualising its complex non-linear storyline containing frequent time-travel, multiple realities and a large cast of interacting characters. The final visualisation was projected onto the<a href=\"https:\/\/liu.se\/en\/research\/norrkoping-decision-arena\"> Norrk\u00f6ping Decision Arena<\/a>&#8216;s 360\u00b0 degree screen .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2025\/10\/DarkSnapshot-1024x596.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2025\/10\/DarkSnapshot-1024x596.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2025\/10\/DarkSnapshot-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2025\/10\/DarkSnapshot-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2025\/10\/DarkSnapshot-1200x699.png 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/files\/2025\/10\/DarkSnapshot.png 1358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Storyline for Dark projected onto a 360\u00b0 display<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For an interactable demo, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgebell.dev\/project-pages\/phd\/DarkVisual.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George, Luke, Alma and Daniel, with partners from the University of Cologne, designed and created a visualisation for submission to The 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization Creative Topic challenge. Of twelve submissions, they achieved third place! The challenge was to create a visualisation for the German science fiction show Dark, visualising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/2025\/10\/06\/third-place-at-gd-contest-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Third Place at GD Contest 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11099,"featured_media":1128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4,8,31,32],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alma","tag-daniel","tag-george","tag-luke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}