👩🏻‍💻Data: Code it, Make it Week 1✨

🦏 3D exercise with Rhino 🍿

• I have no previous experience in 3D modeling before, but I once tried to use p5.js to make a 3D project. I think this software is very convenient to use. Once you get familiarized with the functions, just searching everything in the search box can help you achieve what you want very easily. Using p5.js to generate 3D, if I remember correctly, requires some actions on constructing the canvas. It is much more complicated, but since p5.js is specially designed for 3D projects, it makes sense. (･_･; 

• I would like to learn how to do 3D modeling and data processing. Actually first class already changed my perspective on statistics and data, because I used to think these things are very cold and boring. However, after seeing the art pieces in class, I can feel that physicalized data does create visual impact and sometimes make people reflect on certain social issues. I myself am not very sensitive about data, but I hope through this class I can have more consciousness about data and social issues.

📖 Reading Reflections [link] 🤔

• We visualize data because data itself has no meaning. However, we are immersed in a world full of these scattered numbers tracked, measured, generated by technologies. To help us better perceive the data and understand its meanings, we use methods like data visualization and/ or data physicalization. It helps with data processing, and sometimes shows the processors’ interpretation on the data. The role that art play

  

  s in this process include but not limited to, 1) highlight the important statistics and making the presentation more aesthetic; 2)  enhance visual impact; 3) make the data interactive. On the other hand, the theme of an art project can be a set of data, but it can also be real life story, natural scenery, myths and imagination. Data visualization/ physicalization is a form of art. 

• One idea that strikes me is that material matters too. Different materials have different implications and meanings, thus can add on to the impact of the physicalized data. This certainly can not be achieved by traditional digital visualizations. Nowadays man-made, synthetic materials are also very popular. I think these materials can create the same or similar texture as the natural materials. (But I am not so sure if the impact they make are the same. In my opinion, if we just appreciate the art garments from distance, it might be the same. However, feeling and touching them might not because man-made materials are usually lighter.