Information Visualization for Stock Market Ticks:
Toward a New Trading Interface

This real-time application was designed to visualize historical tick data from the TAQ database; an extremely large, multidimensional dataset containing every public trade for a specific asset. The program displays second-by-second ticks for multiple assets faster than real-time, as a navigable, fully 3D trading environment.

Normal video animation takes approximately half an hour to render one second of output. Since this application generates real-time 3D video, it has a small fraction of the render time than pre-rendered video, and is therefore intentionally more sparse in appearance.

Though Lineplot focuses on creating video with higher production values, this is an interesting prototype output, created as part of the founder's MIT thesis.

Examples of Lineplot's current work can be found in the Main Gallery.