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ufo: an ultra-low frequency oscillator powered by the ISS

ufo: an ultra-low frequency oscillator powered by the ISS

UFO is a script for the Monome Norns - a kind of open-source musical gameboy with a tonne of amazing free scripts developed by the community. The script uses the International Space Station (ISS) as a low-frequency oscillator, with a period of about 90 minutes. It grabs data from the

Decibels Challenge: Objects Launched Into Space

Decibels Challenge: Objects Launched Into Space

Decibels, the sonification community that I founded, runs a monthly challenge where a dataset or other assignment is provided and participants have two weeks to create a data sonification. The latest challenge was set by Ben Cooley. He picked Our World in Data's Objects Launched into Space dataset. I processed

Sonification in Eurorack

Sonification in Eurorack

The greatest joy of modular synthesizers is that you get to create a new instrument every time you sit down. You start with a bunch of modules that send and receive signals of a few basic types (triggers, gates, control voltage, audio), and you decide what goes where. You get

Introducing: The Elevate Membership Program

Introducing: The Elevate Membership Program

Today is the public launch of the Elevate Membership Program [http://www.elevatedataviz.com] - a learning community for people interested in creative information design and data visualization. The doors are open, and you can sign up. Elevate Your Dataviz SkillsJoin us to access exclusive weekly articles and videos focused

Data Sonification on Norns

Data Sonification on Norns

I've created a data sonification script for Norns, called Loud Numbers. Right now it turns .csv files into melodies, though I have ambitions for it to eventually turn many more kinds of data file into many more musical attributes, as well as outputting MIDI over USB and control voltages through

Sketchbook Pages #12

Sketchbook Pages

Sketchbook Pages #12

More pages from my dataviz sketchbook. This time I took some inspiration from my generative art experiments, and also from Phaidon's History of Information Graphics [https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/graphic_design/all/03435/facts.history_of_information_graphics.htm] .

Inktober 2020: Plotter Edition

Inktober 2020: Plotter Edition

I'm participating in Inktober 2020, with the help of my pen plotter

Height Noise

I understand that many people fall in love with Perlin noise when they first learn about it. It did win an Oscar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Perlin], after all. But why use a simulation of reality, when you can just use reality instead? Let's back up for a

The Logpile Chart

The Logpile Chart

A couple of months back, an idea came to me in a dream. That sounds ridiculous, I know, but it's true. I woke up one morning with a clear-as-crystal picture in my head of a kind of chart that I hadn't seen before. The problem that it turns out my

A Weekend With a Plotter

A Weekend With a Plotter

It was pretty good timing that my plotter arrived just before the Easter weekend. I had a full four days to experiment with it and start to get to grips with how it works. Here are my experiences. Unboxing and Setup I ordered my Axidraw V3/A3 from Robotshop.eu

A Wild Plotter Appears!

A Wild Plotter Appears!

I'm extremely excited to say that I'm now the proud owner of a pen plotter. Specifically, the Axidraw V3/A3 [https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/890#]. I had a grand plan [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tenday-notes-22-31-march-2020/] to save up money slowly over time to buy it, but I sold some

Smoulder 1-5

I was making some generative versions of what I wanted my upcoming Carbon in Context graphic to vaguely look like. Then I put in some ridiculous values for the fun of it. One blur filter later, and I've got a set of images that capture how climate change feels instead.

Generative Design

Generative Design

Last week I ordered a new book, and yesterday it arrived. Generative Design [http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/2/] is a guide to creating generative art using the P5.js library. It includes a gentle tutorial on how to get started, but also a bunch of "recipes [http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/

Make Your Own Data Glyphs With Joyful Data

Make Your Own Data Glyphs With Joyful Data

The folks at Gramener's Storylabs have built a "happy little tool" built on JOY.JS [https://ncase.me/joy/] that allows you to create your own system for encoding data in glyphs. It's called Joyful Data [https://gramener.com/joyfuldata/]. Joyful Data — make happy little data visuals; via @gramenerBring your

Work in Progress #2

Behind the Scenes

Work in Progress #2

More circles! Loving the look on Original Fade.

Replicated Territories

Replicated Territories

The other day I saw this great bit of plotter work on Twitter, and loved the look, so I wanted to see if I could replicate something similar digitally. > Territories #axidraw [https://twitter.com/hashtag/axidraw?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #processing [https://twitter.com/hashtag/processing?src=hash&