{"id":217,"date":"2009-05-07T22:45:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T06:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=217"},"modified":"2012-02-27T22:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T06:19:48","slug":"inadvertent-data-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/inadvertent-data-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Inadvertent data art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/test9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/test9.jpg\" alt=\"test9\" title=\"test9\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by the way <a href=\"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/howtobaby\">our viral video<\/a> has been spreading around the web.  It&#8217;s a very chaotic process.  One day it&#8217;ll get a few hundred views, and the next day 60,000.  Blip.tv gives some very basic statistics, but it doesn&#8217;t really tell the story of how the clip&#8217;s popularity spreads from one community to another.  So I&#8217;ve started using <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/processing.org\">Processing<\/a> to try to visualize it.  Processing is really easy to learn to use, but certain commands, like <a target=\"_new\" href=\"file:\/\/\/L:\/Cassidy\/downloads\/Processing\/processing-0135\/processing-0135\/reference\/bezierVertex_.html\">bezierVertex()<\/a>, have slightly less-than-intuitive arguments.  The image above was the result of one of several failed attempts to understand that particular function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by the way our viral video has been spreading around the web. It&#8217;s a very chaotic process. One day it&#8217;ll get a few hundred views, and the next day 60,000. Blip.tv gives some very basic statistics, but it doesn&#8217;t really tell the story of how the clip&#8217;s popularity spreads from one community to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/inadvertent-data-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inadvertent data art<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[87,30,34,42],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-reference","category-visualization","tag-accident","tag-angry-fruit-salad","tag-cruft","tag-glitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}