right vs flight
12142010
im flying back to LA soon and given the holiday season, i’m sure security at the airports are going to be even more crazy. I’ve been through the full-body scanner and I’ve also been through a pat-down, neither of which is a particularly pleasant experience.
I came across this project recently that makes clothes with metallic ink-printed messages that show up under the X-ray scanner.
But it reminded me of this project, which used messages cut into stainless steel plates that are concealed in the travel bag. When under the scanner, it turns into a communication tool aimed at airport security. stealth! a bit heavy for my carry-on though.
POSTED IN Blog, art + photography
algorithmic dwgs + visualization | processing
12142010
NEON QUAKES
A processing sketch developed with Filippo Vanucci as part of Visualizing Data. We designed an algorithmic drawing tool using the that used voronoi geometry to draw a series of cells based on data gathered from the National Earthquake Information Center. Each voronoi cell was drawn according to a corresponding x-y-position based on the epicenter’s latitude and longitude coordinates.
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THEME + VARIATION
Processing sketches inspired by graphic designer Saul Bass, exploring levels of theme + variation. The goal of this sketch was to have one small variable change trigger a great deal of variation.
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DLA
A processing sketch using particle systems that was developed to demonstrate diffusion limited aggregation or DLA. DLA is a phenomena found in nature in which molecules moving randomly according to Brownian motion, slowly aggregate to form complex patterns and structures. This is a demonstration of a static emergent process and is the same underlying principal that drives the formation of snowflakes.
BLIND TO THE WEATHER
A Processing sketch created to move like “window blinds” in a manner akin to a weather vane. Pulling the data from the Yahoo RSS feed, it visualizes in real time both temperature and wind speed by mapping the blinds’ color from blue (coldest) to red (hottest) using an HSB color mode, and the blinds’ rotational speed to actual wind speed.
The video shows weather data for New York City and Anchorage, AK.
