I'm James Proctor, a software artist and data visualization designer. Posting periodic updates on creative tech and data visualization experiments or works in progress.
I recently came across the proposal I wrote for this project from 2007. In a bit of odd foreshadowing my concept was essentially to do a data visualization, although I don't seem to have known the term. Instead I describe my goal in an incredibly stilted manner. "
A while back I created this Observable notebook as a reference for rendering particle systems using a few different front-end libraries. You can debate whether 100 particles is 'lots' but this will likely keep your browser happier when all 5 examples are loaded at once. I agree with
About Me I'm James Proctor, I make art with software tools and work as a developer specializing in data visualization. For a while now I've been focused on the ways the systems we build reflect our values, and using software systems to explore that relationship. I’
Aside from Noisy Grains of Sand, which is awesome, I've probably spent the most time messing around with variations on the Launch Deck example that takes advantage of the controller's ability to emulate a usb keyboard. This is the button mapping I've landed on
This little controller was assembled originally to be an input for Retrofit, an interactive piece I put together in an arcade cab back in 2019. Since I have my pi hooked up to this vertical display I decided to tweak the layout to create a TATE mode. It can be
When I originally put this together back in December 2020 I was living in the Bay Area. Wildfire smoke was bad that year and I wanted a sense of whether my indoor air quality was any better. (it was fine... so long as we kept the windows closed). With a