Data Art
Finding the beauty in numbers.
Convert an image to LEGO brick shopping list in R
Every day you wish you could convert a picture of your family or…
Imagining gigantic places with satellite imagery
Artist Marcus Lyon imagines worlds where there are so many people that the…
Comparison of terms and conditions lengths
Most of us don’t read the terms and conditions before we click on…
Shapes we make, seen from the sky
Look from the above at the shapes and geometry we use for cities,…
Bruises
Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…
Obliteration Room invited people to put dotted stickers everywhere
The Obliteration Room (2012) by artist Yayoi Kusama started as a blank white…
Time-lapse shows night sky at varying levels of light pollution
One of my favorite childhood memories is the time I went camping and…
Ed Sheeran’s creative process explained with music visualization
The New York Times is back at it in explaining the creative process.…
Tracking ballet dancer movements
Research group Euphrates experimented with lines and a ballet dancer’s movements in Ballet…
How generative music works
Generative music comes from the design of a system that produces notes that…
Looking for patterns and structures from the sky
Photographer Bernhard Lang takes pictures in small planes and helicopters, pointing his camera…
Visualization song release
Ukranian band Obiymy Doschu released a new song Razom. “It’s a uplifting and…
Visualizing fertilization of egg by sperm at the atomic level, with a Star Wars theme
Don Ingber and Charles Reilly of the Wyss Institute used data at the…
Computer uses wind to mine cryptocurrency and then fund climate research
HARVEST is an art piece by Julian Oliver that consists of a 4G-connected…
Everyday thresholds visualized in dramatic fashion
This is a fun one that’s weirdly suspenseful. Everyday thresholds, like the slow…
Photorealistic balls of precious metals placed outside their mines
Artist Dillon Marsh uses CGI balls of metal placed outside of mines to…
Karate-inspired projection mapping
I have no idea how projection mapping works, so it kind of feels…
Infinite Twitter ad campaign, based on data profiles
As you probably know, Twitter (and all social media) collects data about you…