Publications by @aschinchon
Sunflowers for COLOURlovers
Tweet Andar, lo que es andar, anduve encima siempre de las nubes (Del tiempo perdido, Robe) If you give importance to colours, maybe you know already COLOURlovers. As can be read in their website, COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and e...
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A Shiny App to Draw Curves Based on L-System
Tweet Don’t worry about a thing ’cause every little thing gonna be alright (Three Little Birds, Bob Marley) One of my favourite books is The Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary William Flake where there is a fantastic chapter about fractals in which I discovered the L-Systems. L-Systems were conceived in 1968 by Aristide Lindenmayer, a ...
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Plants
Tweet Blue dragonflies dart to and fro I tie my life to your balloon and let it go (Warm Foothills, Alt-J) In my last post I did some drawings based on L-Systems. These drawings are done sequentially. At any step, the state of the drawing can be described by the position (coordinates) and the orientation of the pencil. In that case I only used tw...
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The Cycling Accident Map of Madrid City
Tweet Far away, this ship has taken me far away (Starlight, Muse) Madrid City has an Open Data platform where can be found around 300 data sets about a number of topics. One of these sets is the one I used for this experiment. It contains information about cycling accidents happened in the city from January to July 2017. I have done a map to lo...
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Visualizing the Spanish Contribution to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tweet Well I walk upon the river like it’s easier than land (Love is All, The Tallest Man on Earth) The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides here a dataset with information on more than 450.000 artworks in its collection. You can do anything you want with these data: there are no restrictions of use. Each record contains information about the a...
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A Shiny App to Create Sentimental Tweets Based on Project Gutenberg Books
Tweet There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear – Dracula (Stoker, Bram) Twitter is a very good source of inspiration. Some days ago I came across with this: Mi presentación sobre análisis de textos con R para el primer meetup de @RLadiesSantiago: https://t.co/KPU89vyeND #rladies #...
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Drawing 10 Million Points With ggplot: Clifford Attractors
Tweet For me, mathematics cultivates a perpetual state of wonder about the nature of mind, the limits of thoughts, and our place in this vast cosmos (Clifford A. Pickover – The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics) I am a big fan of Clifford Pickover and I find inspiration in his books v...
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Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters
Tweet Now that Twitter allows 280 characters, the code of some drawings I have made can fit in a tweet. In this post I have compiled a few of them. The first one is a cardioid inspired in string art (more info here): library(ggplot2) n=300 t1=1:n t0=seq(3,2*n+1,2)%%n t2=t0+(t0==0)*n df=data.frame(x=cos((t1-1)*2*pi/n), y=sin((t1-1)*2*pi/n),...
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Fatal Journeys: Visualizing the Horror
Tweet In war, truth is the first casualty (Aeschylus) I am not a pessimistic person. On the contrary, I always try to look at the bright side of life. I also believe that living conditions are now better than years ago as these plots show. But reducing the complexity of our world to just six graphs is riskily simplistic. Our world is quite far of...
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Mandalas
Tweet Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world (Marcus Du Sautoy, mathematician) From time to time I have a look to some of my previous posts: it’s like seeing them through another’s eyes. One of my first posts was this one, where I draw fractals using the Multiple Reduction Copy Machine (MRCM) al...
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