I encountered a really useful tool – or set of tools – for D3 that has really changed the approachability and ease of use of the library for me. Adam Pearce who works at the NYTimes Graphics team recently …
Author Archives: Irene Alvarado
IreneAlvarado :: LookingOutwards 3
Twitter Bots!
The first thing I tried to do for this looking outwards was to search for twitter bots outside of the Western countries of the world. I was really curious to see what an Asian bot might look like …
Irene Alvarado :: Gauntlet :: OF Prep
(Posting this as a separate assignment instead of a single gauntlet post)
For my ofPrep assignment I chose to combine ofxTimeline and ofxAssimpModelLoader, which turned out to be harder than I thought – particularly because ofxTimeline is somewhat old now …
Irene Alvarado :: Peer Work Comments
(Reposting peer works comments as separate post instead of twitter post)
My favorite bot was probably Zach Rispoli’s Post Human Bot. Aesthetically he did a beautiful job getting those body parts to look uncanny yet approachable. The colors really help …
Irene Alvarado :: Visualization :: Map Strips
Project Description
For this assignment I mainly wanted to work with satellite imagery of conflict zones, or borders between countries or neighboring communities. My initial thought was that rendering a few different borders into a standardized format might allow for …
Irene Alvarado :: Image Collection :: Teenie Harris Explorations
This was mostly an analytical project where I wrangled with much of the Teenie Harris archive and went from having a 1.5 TB unusable database to a manipulable database with some metadata.
Warmup
I received a 1.5 TB hard drive …
Irene Alvarado :: Final Project :: Virtual Borders
Inspiration
I was really inspired by Laura Kurgan’s book Close up At a Distance. In it she describes the evolution of the Blue Marble image of the earth seen from space and how throughout the years it became in …
Irene Alvarado :: Drawing :: Generative Edge-detection Drawing
Generative Edge-detection Drawing
For the drawing assignment I started off exploring portraiture and the possibility of making a customizable self-portrait that one could tweak in meaningful ways. I ported an ofxImageSegmentation algorithm to use with OSX and ofx0.9.0 and tested …
Irene Alvarado :: Gauntlet :: Maps
Irene Alvarado – Gauntlet – Maps
First map visualization
This was a really great opportunity to become familiarized with D3 and GeoJson, as much as I would have loved to have more time to expand my map. Again, I wanted …
Irene Alvarado :: Gauntlet :: TwitterBot
Irene Alvarado – Gauntlet – TwitterBot
Tagline
@fatal_counters
I’m a twitter bot publishing the street view image of officer-involved homicide locations. Homicide data byhttp://fatalencounters.org . Bot created by @ire_alva
Description
For my twitter bot I decided …