Google Maps incorporates data from smartphones to estimate traffic in any given location.…
Data Art
Finding the beauty in numbers.
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Faking traffic on Google Maps with a wagon of 99 smartphones
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Flow Fields, a generative art tool
Flow Fields, a generative art tool by Michael Freeman, lets you adjust various…
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Haikus generated based on your map location and OpenStreetMap data
Satellite Studio made a map thing that generates haikus based on OpenStreetMap data…
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Traveling Salesman art
Robert Bosch likes to use the Traveling Salesman Problem to draw famous portraits…
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Photographs from above, an Overview
Overview is an ongoing project that uses a zoomed out view for a…
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Pixelation to represent endangered species counts
In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign that used pixelation to…
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Detailed generative art in R
Thomas Lin Pedersen has been sharing his generative art pieces as of late:…
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Jewelry based on your GPS traces
GPX Jewelry by Rachel Binx lets you turn your GPS traces into jewelry.…
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Blanket pattern visualizes baby’s sleep data
Seung Lee collected sleep data for his son’s first year. Then he knitted…
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A view on despair
Sonja Kuijpers used abstract imagery to represent some sobering numbers:
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Charts as a medium for expression
Christine Sun Kim, a deaf artist known for her work visualizing and creating…
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Light installation shows future water lines against existing structures
Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta used sensors, LED lights, and timers to display…
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From text to paint
Leslie Roberts uses paint to encode text as colors and geometry:
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Generate a noise field from an image
Kjetil Golid made an interactive that lets you generate a noise field using…
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Rail delay scarf goes for $8,500 on eBay
Sarah Weber posted a picture of a scarf that her mom knit to…
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Build a parasite to block your digital assistant
Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…
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City road maps made into solvable mazes
Michelle Chandra uses street data as a base for solvable mazes:
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Earth puzzle without borders
The Earth Puzzle by generative design studio Nervous System has no defined borders.…