Data Materialization: A Hybrid Process of Crafting a Teapot

Starrett, Courtney; Reiser, Susan; Pacio, Tom

doi:10.1162/leon_a_01647

Cited by 8 publications

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“…There are 11 projects that benefit from this type of 3D printing for different applications and in different area such as biology [GSSO05], medical [NB00], statistics [KB13], artistic furniture [ZLW∗16] and data sculptures [Som14, SRP18], reservoir field exploration [NLC∗15], physicalizing videos [ZDX∗18] and sound [Bar12], even cooking molds [ZC18] (see Figure 13).…”

Section: Design and Physical Rendering Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Data to Physicalization: A Survey of the Physical Rendering Process

Djavaherpour

Samavati

Mahdavi-Amiri

et al. 2021

Computer Graphics Forum

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Physical representations of data offer physical and spatial ways of looking at, navigating, and interacting with data. While digital fabrication has facilitated the creation of objects with data‐driven geometry, rendering data as a physically fabricated object is still a daunting leap for many physicalization designers. Rendering in the scope of this research refers to the back‐and‐forth process from digital design to digital fabrication and its specific challenges. We developed a corpus of example data physicalizations from research literature and physicalization practice. This survey then unpacks the “rendering” phase of the extended InfoVis pipeline in greater detail through these examples, with the aim of identifying ways that researchers, artists, and industry practitioners “render” physicalizations using digital design and fabrication tools.

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Section: Design and Physical Rendering Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Starrett et al [SRP18] turned the famous computer graphics object, Utah teapot, into a visualization by changing its base to a curve representing datasets by intersecting circles. Chaotic Flow [LJL12] is an installation of colorful flowing liquid that visualizes the flow of Copenhagen bikes.…”

Section: Target Data For Physicalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data to Physicalization: A Survey of the Physical Rendering Process

Djavaherpour

Samavati

Mahdavi-Amiri

et al. 2021

Computer Graphics Forum

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“…Data brings a complexity to the work because it connects different spaces and time, can be dynamic or static, and can materialize in different visualization forms. The form that data art takes vary from the screen to paintings to using structures as display to 3D representation, or data sculpture, that are also called "data materialization" (Starrett, Reiser, & Pacio, 2018).…”

Section: Data Artmentioning

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Public data art’s potential for digital placemaking

Paquin¹

2019

THJ

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Data-based public art is an innovating new form of digital art which presence is increasing in the cities datascape. Data as a medium provides a special relationship with time and space by connecting the context of data mining to the one of its exhibition. The virtual component of data art opens an augmented space, where the different dimensions of data are mediated. This essay analyses how this new artform can contribute to a creative and digital placemaking of a city by offering a special sensory experience as well as renewing the storytelling of its space. Three case studies support the analysis. “Living connections”, projected on an emblematic bridge in Montreal, contributes to a spectacular placemaking. “Interconnected”, a data sculpture in Charlotte airport, relates to infrastructure placemaking. Finally, “Herald / Harbinger” connects the industrialized society with nature in a global connection. The results participate to the reflection on the nature and specificity of data art as well as enhancing its potential of transforming public space by engaging a specific relation with time, place and people.

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Data Materialisation: A New Undergraduate Course for a Data Driven Society

Beghelli¹,

Huerta-Cánepa²,

Segal³

2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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Traditionally, data has been presented in textual format and the interaction with the user confined to the keyboard or touch screen to input data and the screen to deliver information. However, with the advent of a data-driven society, an opportunity for more natural and efficient ways of presenting data and interacting with it has emerged. Although the area of Human-Computer Interaction has existed for a long time, its focus has always been on the interaction with an artefact (the computer). Today instead, we face the challenge of interacting with an intangible object: data. As a result, a key requirement emerges: How do we make legible the enormous amounts of data produced per day to ordinary people? Designers, able to devise natural and smooth interaction experiences, should play a relevant role in this new scenario. However, they might lack the basic technical knowledge required to understand the possibilities of these new systems. In this paper we present a brief how-to manual for an undergraduate course on data materialisation: the process of transforming an intangible object (data) in an artefact that can be interacted with in a physical way.

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Data Materialization: A Hybrid Process of Crafting a Teapot

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Data to Physicalization: A Survey of the Physical Rendering Process

Data to Physicalization: A Survey of the Physical Rendering Process

Public data art’s potential for digital placemaking

Data Materialisation: A New Undergraduate Course for a Data Driven Society

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