Quick and fun tutorial for an eye-catching result! — Voro-what?! Voronoi diagram or tesselation. It is named after the Imperial Russian mathematician of Ukranian descent Georgy Voronoy. In mathematics, this type of diagram is a method of dividing a plane into regions called cells based on the following specifications. As a plane is actually an infinite set of points forming…

Use the free and open-source tools to create a marker-based fun and interactive logo with very little code Virtual space — the new frontier With the advent of internet and the world wide web, the new era of colonisation has begun — the virtual space is up for grabs and the phygital (the hybrid offspring from the improbable union of the physical and digital worlds) is the latest hype word. Since the dawn of…

I wish I knew about these when I first started! — Over the years, my main tasks involved creating short educational content popularising science, be it explainers, timelines, exhibition texts and labels that together supported a more complex narrative or theme (picture all the various types of content you find in an exhibition). …

Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man… The AI-based art app Wombo Dream produced interesting results… — Since my childhood, I have profusely fed on popular culture, and Universal Studios monster films are top on my list of productions that I can watch over and over again. Even though the Frankenstein and Dracula films don’t do justice to the original novels respectively by Mary Shelley and Bram…

I used an AI interface to generate pictures of well-known characters and the results are interestingly odd… — Welcome to the wondrous realm of AI-generated art! After reading the below article by a fellow Medium contributor, I decided to try it out. How I Create Mind-blowing AI Art In 5 Minutes For FREE Just type anything you like and AI will generate beautiful artworks for FREE!medium.com The whole project can be accessed on Google Colab (link here), there is a video tutorial and all is set to guide you step by step…

This is not a data viz article but an article about creating graphically-interesting art using the wordcloud library in python. — Data visualisations are a type of storytelling leading to insight and for the best of them to enlightenment that can drive decision making. Wordclouds are not one of them. They are actually quite the opposite as they are graphically tied to a font and font size cannot be accurately translated…

Nebulas are beautiful space objects — gas and dust clouds with distinctive colours, acting as star nurseries. Watching a PyCon 2018 conference by Emily Xie gave me a great basis to build upon and use processing.py and then p5.js to build an interactive interface that draws a human-machine generated output…

Since I discovered python and the plotly library, I fell in love with sankey diagrams. If you are not familiar with this type of data representation, it is a diagram that represents flows within a given system. The flows look like ribbons and their width is determined by their value. …