Week 6

• Presentation
  • Sophie on Richard Saul Wurman
• Tufte Book Report: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• P5 Tutorial: Normalization and ‘mapping’
  • Arrays and Objects
  • Calculating coordinates based on distances and angles
  • Mapping time values to angles, colors, etc.
    • see also: map() & lerpColor()
  • Review of looping with for, _.times, and _.each
    • Exercise: draw as many circles as there are hours/min/sec in the current time
• In-class work on looping & Right Twice a Day individual meetings

Assignment

• Tufte Book Report #2
  • Envisioning Information
• Right Twice a Day
  • Polish and incorporate feedback on your three code-based time visualizations
  • Convert your paper sketches into code for your three date visualizations. As before, duplicate the project folder three times and name them date-1, date-2, and date-3. Once the sketch is complete, rename each folder with a meaningful and descriptive suffix such as date-3-season-colors