Started working on a basic script for data visualization, which again quickly devolved into a plaything. Still pretty rough, looking forward to taking this further. Enjoy!

Acrylic over gesso on masonite board, 12′ x 8′.

Shown at ‘Beautiful Minds’ at the Yards Park grand opening in Washington DC, September 3rd & 4th, 2010.

This began as a mouse behavior tracking tool, but quickly devolved into a plaything.  Only real difference is the time parameter: useful behavior tracking would track too slowly to be of interest for a casual visitor looking at this site.

I’m having a lot of fun learning canvas… have an idea for the next evolution of this, but I’m not sure how well canvas is suited for it.  Might have to move to Processing.

[EDIT] Tested this across browsers and was very surprised by the color difference: it looks beautiful in web kit browsers (safari & chrome) and like complete ass in firefox… hmmm.

just started learning html5/canvas… first result: this very silly experiment in contrived complexity.

New site coming soon. In the meantime, here’s a spread from my sketchbook.