Home Depot Culture

James Proctor

May 1, 2025 — 1 min read

Art school sent me to the home depot; I decided to make a graph.

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.

"to make information visible as a formal way to represent data in a visual way".

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ultimately it produced some fun images, in addition to a bunch of little cuts on my hands, even if the underlying values are, like the proposal, pretty much unreadable.

An additional view of the stacked sheets of glass showing variations in length of another edge.

Particles, 5 ways

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

An axi-drawn smiley face with some registration problems

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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’

An Adafruit Neotrellis with it's led buttons illuminated to indicate buttons.

Riffing on the Launch_Deck_Trellis_M4 Example

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

A controller with a grid of colorful buttons sits in front of a vertical monitor.

Taking the Trellis Vertical

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

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Particles, 5 ways

Thanks for Visiting

Riffing on the Launch_Deck_Trellis_M4 Example

Taking the Trellis Vertical