Using Photoshop to Design your own Theme for ICE

In a previous post, I’ve introduced a new open source, Silverlight-based visualization framework called ICE (Information Connections Engine). Since some people had difficulties creating their own style, I created this short video which not only details how to modify the icon library, but shows how to do so using Photoshop and Microsoft Blend 3.

Visualization On ICE

Our little “ICE” open source project (“Information Connections Engine”) is growing in popularity! ICE is a visualization framework based on Silverlight, which allows any .net developer to visualize any sort of data and their connections in just a few hours of work. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s easy.

Check out this 3 min teaser to have an idea of what ICE is capable of:

There’s a complete step by step tutorial that should get you started real fast with your first “application on ICE”.

What’s most amazing about such a flexible and easy to use tool is to watch what developers are doing with it. The mathematical models and countless configuration options, along with the possibility to use XAML to visualize and animate nodes and links according to your own creativity, result in applications we had never anticipated. I’m pretty sure someone will create a little game using ICE soon…. anyone?