The Hidden Dimension
Datascape
Every chart here is flat because something was folded away: height, density, time, the ground under the water. Each piece starts from a chart you have seen before, built from real measurements, and opens it back into the space it came from.
Stories Guided, in chapters, from public scientific data
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Weather radar map → the storm it was measured on
Storm Chamber
One volume scan of the Dodge City radar, thirteen minutes before the 2013 Rozel tornado: fourteen cones of measurement, filled into a box of sky you can cut open.
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Phase diagram → the surface that casts it
The Shadow of Water
The textbook diagram of ice, liquid and vapor is a shadow. This is the object that casts it: every state of water in pressure, temperature and density.
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12-lead ECG → the loop of the heart's vector
The Electric Heart
Twelve traces on red paper are projections of one moving point. Fold time away and each heartbeat becomes a loop in space, ten beats from a healthy heart.
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Tide gauge curve → the shore it floods
Between Tides
A month of measured sea level at Eastport, Maine, carried sideways onto the surveyed ground of the South Lubec flats, where seven meters of tide uncover square kilometers of seabed.
Instruments Bring your own data: a GitHub account, a song
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GitHub contribution calendar → a city at night
Commit City
Type any GitHub username and a year of contributions rises as a city, one lit building a day, or as a glowing contour terrain.
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Stacked pulsar plot → ridges driven by music
PSR B1919+21
A tribute to the most famous plot in radio astronomy. Play a song, open the microphone or start the built-in synth, and its spectrum flows away as white ridges.