Experiments - Bar & Line

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.

Plotter

Inktober 2020: Plotter Edition

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

Generative Art

Height Noise

I understand that many people fall in love with Perlin noise when they first learn about it. It did win an Oscar, after all. But why use a simulation of reality, when you can just use reality instead? Let's back up for a moment. Perlin noise, if you've never come

Dataviz

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

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 SetupI ordered my Axidraw V3/A3 from Robotshop.eu, and

Plotter

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. I had a grand plan to save up money slowly over time to buy it, but I sold some old photography equipment instead. It arrived yesterday, just in time for

Generative Art

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.

Code

Generative Design

Last week I ordered a new book, and yesterday it arrived. Generative Design 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" for making cool things that you can tweak to

Experiments

Make Your Own Data Glyphs With Joyful Data

The folks at Gramener's Storylabs have built a "happy little tool" built on JOY.JS that allows you to create your own system for encoding data in glyphs. It's called Joyful Data. Joyful Data — make happy little data visuals; via @gramenerBring your own datasets, design custom visuals in a live,

Behind the Scenes

Work in Progress #2

More circles! Loving the look on Original Fade.

Experiments

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 #processing #plottertwitter #generativedesign #creativecoding #generativeart pic.twitter.com/3CyCeuY7bA — Julien Gachadoat (@v3ga) January 6, 2020 First I made