TY - GEN
T1 - Visualizing federal spending
AU - Xu, Rebecca Ruige
AU - Zhai, Sean Hongsheng
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this project we explore an aesthetics-oriented approach to visualizing federal spending in the United States as 3D compositions in a photorealistic style. Using procedural modeling with Python programming and Maya API, an organic flow of intermingled geometrical units is formed to represent the profile of federal spending for each state, loosely resembling the idea of money flow. The total amount of spending is scaled to a per capita basis to make different states comparable, while the overall surface area or volume occupied by each type of geometrical pattern represents its associated spending data.
AB - In this project we explore an aesthetics-oriented approach to visualizing federal spending in the United States as 3D compositions in a photorealistic style. Using procedural modeling with Python programming and Maya API, an organic flow of intermingled geometrical units is formed to represent the profile of federal spending for each state, loosely resembling the idea of money flow. The total amount of spending is scaled to a per capita basis to make different states comparable, while the overall surface area or volume occupied by each type of geometrical pattern represents its associated spending data.
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U2 - 10.1145/2503649.2503671
DO - 10.1145/2503649.2503671
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84881576251
SN - 9781450323376
T3 - ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Gallery, SIGGRAPH 2013
SP - 414
EP - 415
BT - ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Gallery, SIGGRAPH 2013
T2 - ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, SIGGRAPH 2013
Y2 - 21 July 2013 through 25 July 2013
ER -