Tag Archives: visualisation

A new way of looking at the GPS traces

After meeting Peter today, I decided to finally look at the alpha setting on his openframeworks application we use for lots of our work to explore a possible solution to getting a 3D printer to make a frequency map from … Continue reading

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Jacquard loom GPS visualisation

We are getting increasingly attracted to older ways of visualising our GPS data – getting it out of the digital and especially screen realm and into tangible, haptic objects. Last week, after helping Martin print some data he is working … Continue reading

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A Portrait of the Artist Lost in his own Artwork

Today, Eric, Vincent and I went to visit Crew’s installation ‘No Horizon’ at Hasselt as part of Superbodies. While there, we experimented with showing other material in the installation, including my own GPS tracks of Berlin in animated form. As … Continue reading

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Garmin Forerunner to GPX with heartrate as elevation (altitude)

It seems like I’ve been working on this for ages but I finally managed to get some kind of output from the Garmin Forerunner 301 that Miles Chalcraft kindly leant me. Grab GarminTools from here. Plug in the Forerunner and … Continue reading

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