Published: The Hedgehog Review! But not like you nor I imagined…
May 31 I woke to a surprise, an unanticipated message about one of my images from Leann Davis Alspaugh, the…
Tag: Visualization
Color Theory: What’s the deal with the palettes I’m using?
Following a recent conversation, I wanted to write this blog to add some final pieces of context to my current interest in color palettes.
Binary Numbers
The Binary Numbers project was changed earlier this year following Trump’s inauguration. The original was inspired by simple musings on Data as Art. It was updated again in 2014 after the work had stalled due to technical reasons. I increased the complexity of the images, and incorporated Heritage Color Palettes.
But the end of last year and the beginning of this were exhausting. Two months were spent in protest:
But it seems that this alone was not able to tear the wheels off a tanker in Tienanmen Square… and so I decided on something uplifting. For myself, and for the viewer.
Cinema Palettes was a fantastic Twitter account that takes a scene (not necessarily iconic) from a film and analyses the scene’s colors, presenting back to us, the palette used.
I had been following it for a while and I became curious as to what I might be able to do with it in the configuration of my Binary Numbers.
And so from January this year I adapted the Cinema Palettes concept into this work starting with 50 new color palettes.
2015: A Year in Binary
Quietly over new year my second binary numbers project completed. The project was my first ever Twitter Bot and its…
Dynamic avatars on Twitter
The visualization tells me that the first publication from my Twitter bot, created to dynamically update my avatars daily was 20 December 2012. My bot was a simple Python script that generated images in binary to represent the day of the month.
Why?
Well, doesn’t it get a little boring looking at the same thing every day?
Lets look at the details below.
Binary Prime Numbers, with Added Code
Just a short blog to end the year and to follow up on something I posted a few weeks back: While…
Data as Art – Data as Culture
Having just typed the original title of this blog post ‘Data as Art’ I realize it is probably the millionth blog to share it. A minor modification should help to identify it among the countless others…
This week, as the newly founded Open Data Institute (ODI) embraces data-as-culture I am reminded about a visualization I attempted a short while back – visualizing prime numbers.