Maneesh Agrawala was my Info Vis professor in graduate school. His work on auto generated route maps, photography and 3d illustrations is pretty amazing, take a look at his portfolio.

Berkeley site: http://vis.berkeley.edu/~maneesh/

MacArthur bio: http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.5458001/k.92B8/...

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