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Project Details
YEAR 2018
LOCATION MacLean Building 112 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
About
19,913 is an interactive data visualization based on NEO (near-Earth orbit) satellite altitude data. Each of the 19,913 white lines represent an individual satellite’s relative altitude and orbit around Earth.
Scope
Discovery
Dataset
Hardware
Design
Visualization aesthetics
Interaction control scheme
Processing 3
Development
Interactivity feel
Real-time optimization
9-panel LCD CAVE
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Process & Creation
The abstract swirling visuals seen in the official documentation film and images were a happy accident. While building the original visualization of the sphere representing the Earth and the protruding white lines representing satellites, I found that you could actually “enter” the visualization.
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