In order to visualize multiple variables in a single time series, a stacked area (sometimes called a “stream”) chart is often useful. I am currently doing research for an upcoming visualization that will trace the development of ideas through a conversation. Unable to find processing code to create an area chart, I decided to write [...]
When you find old van Gogh images on your computer, what could be more logical than to shatter them into a thousand abstract pieces and rearrange? This image was the first experimenting with this process. Pretty ugly. I don’t know what I was going for. It was late. The second in the series came from [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve been exploring language and words and how to deal with them algorithmically. Lately I’ve been thinking about ways to visualize various aspects of language, and one of the first that came to mind was the idea of representing the sound of words with color. I am using the Carnegie [...]
