Module 2 Formstorming

Weekly Activity Template

Exploring the data that maps can express in 3D

Project 2

Module 2

For the first week of Module 2 I messed around the with the Mapbox program a lot to get familiar and used Cartogram to get different color palettes for styles in the program.
For the second week I dived deeper into different options for my final. Originally I was going to do a bivariate map but felt that after exploring it this week I'd already done a lot and didn't know where to go next, so I chose to laser cut for my final.

Week 6

An image of an owl found on google that I used in Cartogram. Google search for a random assortment of images to use for Cartogram. An image of a beach found on google used in Cartogram to create the orange map palette. The image of flowers that I found on google. Skyline image that was found on google. First experiment in Mapbox where I created the color palette myself with colors I liked. For the first map I was interested in messing with the road layer in mapbox to put in simple data. I flipped the color of the roads because they weren’t well visible. As I was looking at all the settings I realized that my settings weren’t matching with the tutorial video and there was way more than I thought. The first result after exporting the Cartogram beach into Mapbox. Now that there was a lot more layers, I had more data to mess with and wanted to try messing with the traffic. The result of changing color of the traffic to white. After looking at the result of the map I wanted to turn POI on. The Cartogram palette of the flower image I found on google. One of the palettes resulting from putting an image of the Marquee into Cartogram. Another palette from the Marquee, I liked this one more and exported it. For this map I was interested in using walking trails and I also changed the base color to black. One of my friends I was talking to suggested the color palette for this map and I decided to keep labels for roads and buildings on. Another piece of data I wanted on my map were points of interest. While messing around with colors and layers I found a terrain dataset from Mapbox and changed their colors. I added it onto the purple map from earlier but the colors were too dark and didn't contrast well. I set the map to grayscale to better see the different layers and noticed they were broken up into different opacities. I went through the layers of the map and disabled certain data from being seen so that the terrain layers would pop more. After taking a picture of the ceramics studio, I put it into Cartogram to see what it would come up with.

Week 7

Doing the masking for the projection mapping using my living room as a base. While making the layer to separate all the surfaces, I was having a bit of trouble with my layers and needed to scale the base image up. As I was making the effect I had a bit of trouble with my layers before I switched them to fix them like Steve did in his tutorial. For the shatter effect I wanted the one I did to be different from our tutorial so I chose a more geometric shape. I eventually circled back to the glass effect because I didn't like how the geometric one looked and I wanted it to look like the wall was breaking. The hardest part of the projection mapping was lining up all of the surfaces so it looked like two holes were breaking up the space. Finished projection mapping. I wanted the shards to be textured like the image but couldn't find a way to do it and it was too advanced for this introduction. Image of my living room I took to do the projection mapping. Laser cutting technician putting my files into the computer to start cutting it. The first phone stand while it was being cut. As I was watching the second one being cut, I really liked how the etching looked with the pokemon image. The final cut for the second phone stand. Sanding the edges of the second phone stand so I don't get splinters. Left side of the first phone stand finished. Right side of the first phone stand finished. Final bivariate map of alarms vs medical responses in Seattle. Another bivariate map of Seattle, but made for fires vs alarms. A bivariate map of Toronto for assaults vs robberies. The second phone stand finished. Searching through the Ontario governments datasets to find something I could use for another map. Showing the data layer and how I organized each set of data and changed their colors. The medic and fire maps used the same dataset. I figured out what data to show on the map and was trying to tweak how all the data was displayed because some of them were too small. The fire map before I changed what each point of data looked like. It was hard to see as well. The process of making the Mississauga map using illustrator to send to the lab technician for printing. Initially I was planning to send more files in, but only had space and time for two stands.

Spatial Workshop 1

Ceramics studio in the AA wing being used by students. The main area of the renovated Marquee in the SSU building. Front of the SCAET building and the front entrance to campus.

Spatial Workshop 2

Drawing made of the studio including an elevator, a table, showcase spots, pottery wheels, and storage space on the second floor. One of the hallways in the ceramics building with more showcase room and automatic doors leading to the studio. An outside drawing of the ceramics building connecting the Annie Smith building and the Crafts and Design building to eachother.

Project 2

Final Project 2 Design

Laser Cut Topographic Map

Final topographic map of Montevideo. Side view of the topographic map.
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