For my final project, I worked with an image dataset of around 3300 posters from the Cooper Hewitt museum (https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/types/35238163/). These posters originated from different parts of the 20th and 21st centuries. Their places of origin were …
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Samarth Final Proposal – Cooper Hewitt Posters
For the final project, I’m working with a set of 3300 poster images from the Cooper Hewitt collection. Some useful metadata is provided for these posters such as year of origin, year of acquisition, title, description and color palette. A …
20th century playing cards from the Cooper Hewitt
I explored the Cooper Hewitt database that contains over 200,000 images and found 2 image sets I was interested in: posters and playing cards. I decided to work with playing cards. This dataset contained around 2000 images of playing cards …
Samarth-Project3-Interim
I was interested in visualizing one of the museum image databases. I initially chose the Carnegie Museum of Art but after going through several museum datasets and websites, I was significantly more interested in Cooper Hewitt‘s exhibits and chose …
Samarth – Project 2 Proposals
I am considering two alternatives for my visualization project. The one I’m leaning towards at the moment is an analytical visualization of the spacetime around a black hole. More generally, I’m interested in visualizing the dilation of time due …
Peer project appreciation – Gauntlet
It was hard to choose a single project from the many interesting ones that were produced by the Gauntlet assignment. Two projects I really liked were Robert’s Sun-like meteorite visualization and Evi’s vibrating dot visualization for earthquake magnitudes.
I liked …
Samarth-LookingOutwards-4
A drawing project that inspired my drawing program assignment was DadaBot, a gesture controlled drawing robot by David Baus and Alexander Oemisch. Being interested in motion sensing and gesture detection, this robot appealed to me and helped shape my own …
Samarth – Leap Dot (gesture controlled drawing)
I wanted to explore drawing through motion gestures and hence created a drawing program that uses Leap Motion as the input device and hand gestures as the drawing tool.
I was also interested in giving users partial control over a …
Map Visualizations – Meteorites
I chose the meteorite dataset for the map assignment.
For the map visualization, I used Stamen Maps and followed the demonstration given by Ingrid Burrington. An interesting thing happened on account of me not knowing that the latitudes and longitudes …
Twitter bot – Color Blind Bot
My Twitter bot is called Color Blind Bot (@colorblindbot). It tweets randomized color advice at regular intervals of the form “green is the new black”. Each tweet is accompanied with an image with a single color name displayed …