Paper planes is a Twitter bot that tells the story of paper planes migrating to the moon. The bot generates an image of randomly placed paper planes flying east. These images have a narrative attached to them as these planes …
Author Archives: Safinah Ali
Safinah Ali
02 Feb 2016
For my Map visualization, I selected the meteorite strike data. The data was especially intriguing to me, since meteorite strikes are not something we actively thing about. I wanted to portray through a visualization that it actually happens, and the …
Safinah Ali
02 Feb 2016
For my two ofx-Addons project, I used the ofx-OpenCV add-on and the ofx-UI add-on. I wanted to work with the OpenCV add-on and make a program that allowed the user to do a bunch of things with the UI …
Safinah Ali
21 Jan 2016
A Twitter bot I find super interesting is the @NYTMinusContext bot. The bot basically picks parts lines from The New York Times articles and tweets these incomplete lines. These tweets lack context because the contextual nouns are often removed …
Safinah Ali
17 Jan 2016
A map that interests me is The World of Music Map by David Gleich, Matt Resmussen, Kevin Lang and Leonid Zhukov.The World of Music, by researchers at Standford, MIT and Yahoo!, intends to render the music space in an …
Safinah Ali
14 Jan 2016
An OF project I found interesting is the Trace ribbon – an emergence by movement by Shohei Fujimoto: https://www.creativeapplications.net/openframeworks/trace-ribbon-an-emergence-by-movement/
Trace Ribbon is a device that automatically and continuously records and plays back movement. It reads movement using leap motion …