Winds / January 19, 2006 / Mansfield, Massachusetts

Winds / January 20, 2006 / Mansfield, Massachusetts

Winds / January 21, 2006 / Mansfield, Massachusetts

Fascinated by the power of wind, I wanted to gain a better understanding of how it changes throughout a day. I took some electronics and programming classes and built a simple apparatus to capture wind data with sensors and custom software.

These drawings were made using custom software written using Processing. A circle was plotted every second based on wind speed and direction. The faster the wind blows, the larger the circle and the greater the distance from the center. The circle colors alternate every hour between a color and white. Colors change throughout the day as the drawing adds and subtracts from itself.

These drawings were made using data collected over three days in January 2006 in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

I am currently working on other ways of visualizing wind using Processing.