Tyne ‹ ~Flow

[Tom Johnson]

Interesting simulation/data viz project.

http://www.flowmill.org/tyne

Concept

Tyne is a visualisation of data from 5 sensor values recorded by ~Flow, a tidemill floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power using a tidal waterwheel. ~Flow was initiated by Owl Project and Ed Carter in collaboration with Modular. This data, which also drives beautifully built, wooden instruments and sound generators located on board of ~Flow is publicly available on Cosm.

Each recording of the data captures the levels of oxygen, acidity, nitrates and salinity values in the water as well as the turning speed of the waterwheel. This set of values provides the basis for a flow simulation which generates a unique image per measurement.

Particles are continuously moving from right to left, being attracted or repelled by four circular zones representing the sensor values. The overall behavior of the particles is influenced by the turning speed of the waterwheel. If the value of one sensor is above its mean value, particles are repelled. If the value is below the mean, particles are attracted towards the center of the zone.

This mechanism creates slight turbulences in the stream which in turn produce a single image based on the drawn paths of the particles.

-tj

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[Russell Standish]

I presume ~Flow is pronounced tilde-Flow, a sort of dyslexic pun, I
guess.

My C++ heritage can't stop reading this as Flow destructor, however
:). Maybe that might even be appropriate, depending on how efficient
it is at extracting energy.

Cheers

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 01:30:06PM -0600, Tom Johnson wrote:

> Interesting simulation/data viz project.
>
> http://www.flowmill.org/tyne
> Concept
>
> Tyne is a visualisation of data from 5 sensor values recorded by ~Flow, a
> tidemill floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power
> using a tidal waterwheel. ~Flow was initiated by Owl
> Project<http://www.owlproject.com/>and Ed Carter in collaboration with
> Modular. <http://modular.org.uk/> This data, which also drives beautifully
> built, wooden instruments and sound generators located on board of ~Flow is
> publicly available on Cosm. <https://cosm.com/feeds/46386>
>
> Each recording of the data captures the levels of oxygen, acidity, nitrates
> and salinity values in the water as well as the turning speed of the
> waterwheel. This set of values provides the basis for a flow simulation
> which generates a unique image per measurement.
>
> Particles are continuously moving from right to left, being attracted or
> repelled by four circular zones representing the sensor values. The overall
> behavior of the particles is influenced by the turning speed of the
> waterwheel. If the value of one sensor is above its mean value, particles
> are repelled. If the value is below the mean, particles are attracted
> towards the center of the zone.
>
> This mechanism creates slight turbulences in the stream which in turn
> produce a single image based on the drawn paths of the particles.
>
> -tj

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