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Recently, a good friend of mine and I entered a visualization competition at visualizing.org in an effort to do something non-thesis related and potentially awesome. The prompt was to visualize worldwide urban water data. We thought on it for a couple weeks, and over the course of three evenings we produced the visualization that we call “What’s your Water Footprint?” and submitted it to visualizing. A week later it was announced that we had won! Not too shabby. Take a look for yourself and play around with it.

Anyway, thanks to the people at visualizing.org and everyone who has helped spread the word via twitter/blogs/word of mouth. It’s been a one of a kind experience for Nickie and I.

multiplex, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

I wrote this little script that takes images (the smaller the better) and clips them together to make one image. Basically, the more images you feed into it, the more information it holds but at the same time it becomes increasingly indecipherable.

sectionRender, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

Four to go. I find that having finals after winter break really seems to kill my ability to ever completely relax because no matter what I know I should be studying or writing or something other than sleep and eat.

In any case, this is what I made in the span of about 24 hours.

Baby RB, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

used my Dad’s new scanner to digitize and preserve hundreds of photos, negatives, and slides. The whole process takes some time, but sure threw me back.

Turns out as much as I like the ease and convenience of digital photos, they will never rival their film counterparts. I’ll be scanning and uploading more soon.

indianaJones03, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

Had tons of fun today making a short comic book using my camera, RB’s LEGOs, and Comic Life. If only I had more time.

Architects love diagrams. Projects live and die by them here in architecture school.

This is an interactive diagram I made to show the “Centroid” of the Harvard undergrad housing (sans frosh). I won’t explain too much except to explain that “weighted” means that the calculations take into account the number of residents, so a more populated house will affect the centroid more than a sparsely populated house. Unweighted is then just the average by location only. Also see if you can figure out how to turn on and off houses and edit their populations (note: the population numbers are accurate for most of the houses as of this year).

p.s. See if you can find the bug in the programming. I could probably fix it…if I wanted to.

This is curver’s remorse. How am I going to make/ draw this?, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

I have to figure out a way to make this badboy out of materials that are by nature flat. This may hurt.

fractalSite01, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

In order to begin our last project for our first year core studio, I made an actionscript program that imposes a semi-random fractal over our site. What the script came up with was pretty interesting…at least I think so