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Experiments

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

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