For my final project, I decided to continue on my Jewish time visualization. A main shortcoming of the previous version was that there was a disconnect between the circular timeline and the horizontal timeline and this, in combination with …
Author Archives: Erica Lazrus
Erica Lazrus
16 May 2016
Erica Lazrus
24 Mar 2016
Erica Lazrus
15 Mar 2016
Z’man Sheli is a visualization exploration of understanding world events through the lens of the Jewish concept of time. It features two linked timelines, one in the traditional linear sense with events plotted on a Gregorian calendar and the …
Erica Lazrus
16 Feb 2016
What I am interested in doing for my map/environment visualization is not so much the visualization of a place but rather the visualization of places in time. About a year ago, I came up with the idea of creating a …
Erica Lazrus
05 Feb 2016
Part I. Two Addons in OF
For this part of the assignment, I only had time to do the base requirements, i.e. getting two addons to compile in the same project (as you can see if my beautiful output screenshot …
Erica Lazrus
02 Feb 2016
I really liked Irene’s choice of using a word cloud to understand the most common words used when police become victims. It can be really hard to find a good use case for word clouds that one can actually learn …
Erica Lazrus
02 Feb 2016
I found Micah Scott’s Circle Forest to be a really interesting interactive exhibit, especially in the context of our drawing assignment. The “forest” consists of a series of spinners, which each have their own personality and together control the color-mixing …
Erica Lazrus
20 Jan 2016
I really love the Color Squares bot, created for IACD last year. An example tweet from this bot:
wrench pic.twitter.com/utQyxxO4BV
— Color Squares (@ColorSquares) February 27, 2015
The bot seems to create a collage based on a common English …
Erica Lazrus
17 Jan 2016
It’s easy to find maps that are pretty, seductive, and (purportedly) explanatory. Find a map that interests you — and then find a problem with it. (Or at least, identify something about it that concerns you.) Write a Looking …